1 Introduction: The Study of Turkey-Syria Relations 1. - Raymond Hinnebusch. - 2 Ripeness Theory and Coercive Diplomacy as a Road. - to Conflict Resolution: The Case of the Turkey-Syria. - Showdown in 1998 13. - Berna Siier. - 3 Syrian-Turkish Relations: Geopolitical Explanations for the. - Move from Conflict to Co-operation 27. - Marwan Kabalan. - 4 Turkey's Cold War Alliance: Nation-building and the Utility. - of the 1957 Syrian Crisis 39. - Reem Abou-El-Fadl. - 5 Paradise Lost: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of Turkish. - Foreign Policy and the Case of Turkish-Syrian Relations 55. - Ahmet K. Han. - 6 'Milking the Male Goat'and Syrian-Turkish Relations 71. - Sami Moubayed. - 7 'Victory of Friendship'?: Asad, Erdogan and Football. - Diplomacy in Aleppo 81. - Philip Robins. - 8 As Seen From Damascus: the Transformation in. - Syrian-Turkish Relations 95. - Samir al-Taqi and Raymond Hinnebusch. - vi Turkey-Syria Relations. - 9 The Importance of the Unimportant: Understanding Syrian. - Policies towards Hatay, 1939-2012 111. - Emma Lundgren Jorum. - 10 EtWnicity, Religion and Foreign Policy: Turkish-Syrian. - Relations since the 1980s 125. - Yasemin Akbaba and Ozgiir Ozdamar. - 11 Back to Conflict? The Securitization of Water. - in Syrian-Turkish Relations 133. - Marwa Daoudy. - 12 Turkey-Syria Water Relations: Institutional Development. - and Political Confrontations in the Euphrates and Tigris Region 145. - Aysegul Kibaroglu. - 13 The Political Economy of Turkish-Syrian Relations in the. - 2000s - The Rise and Fall of Trade, Investment and Integration 159. - Ozlem Tiir. - 14 Explaining the Transformation of Turkish-Syrian Relations:. - A Regionalist Approach 177. - Meliha Benli Altunisik. - 15 The Syrian Uprising and the Iran-Turkey-Syria Quasi Alliance:. - A View from Turkey 193. - Ozden Zeynep Oktav. - 16 Conclusion 205. - Raymond Hinnebusch and Ozlem Tiir