The reason is that Turkey, with its new foreign policy orientation, "is seen as a rival to France's interests in the new Middle East," said Mr. Unluhisarcikli, the German Marshall Fund official.
That came after a bipartisan declaration on the country's foreign policy orientation, which parliament adopted on March 7th.Mr Saakashvili and Mr Ivanishvili have dominated Georgian politics over the last eighteen months.
"China will make developing relations with Russia a priority in its foreign policy orientation," he said in a written statement issued upon his arrival in Moscow, the Chinese state-owned news agency Xinhua reported.
QUESTION FROM TOM K: As you argued for the Obama administration to 'press hard' on Syria, do you think nudging Turkey away from its 'zero-problems' foreign policy orientation, at least in this case, might in fact be the best mechanism for credible and effective outside pressure?
While Tashkent has U-turned its foreign policy orientation at least twice in the two recent decades, Astana tries to conduct a steady and predictable foreign policy.
Despite the paucity of adequate information about his foreign policy orientation, it is nevertheless possible to make some inferences about his possible proclivities.
Accounting for these developments on the domestic, historical and international level is critical in order to understand Turkey's foreign policy orientation, marked by the concepts of "zero problems" and "Strategic Depth," elaborated upon by the current Minister of Foreign Affairs and a former Professor of International Relations Dr. Ahmet Davutoğlu.
In 2001-2002, pursuedursued his own version of a "reset" in American-Russian relations, and his foreign-policy orientation at that time was at least as amenable to U.S. interests as Medvedev's today.
Mr. Jinnah set the orientation for Pakistan's foreign policy as an ally of the United States.
The answer to this lies in Gaddafi's reinvention as an African leader and his re-orientation of Libya's foreign policy and oil dollars towards Africa.
