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The modern state of Turkey is the successor to what was once a great power. At its zenith, the Ottoman Empire commanded large armies and territory and had an important say in European power politics. In the Middle East, it had no real rival. In his classic Theory of International Politics, Kenneth Waltz identifies the Ottoman Empire as a Great Power in 1700 — but by 1800 it had ceased to occupy this status (Waltz, 1979, p. 132). The Ottoman Empire was not the only state to lose this coveted position: by the 1800s, Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain were no longer considered Great Powers either. By the end of the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had ceased to exist. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the international system was transformed from a multipolar to a bipolar and, finally, to the current almost unipolar state.
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Barkey, H.J. (2010). Turkey and the Great Powers. In: Kerslake, C., Öktem, K., Robins, P. (eds) Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277397_13
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