This MPhil compares two significant middle powers’ relations with a great power since the c.1975. Since the end of the Second World War, Turkey and Australia have been prominent allies of the US. Each alliance, Turkey-US and Australia-US, is conceived as the arm of a cross, because they followed opposing trends, and crossed as in the diagram. Each arm had sporadic ups and downs in their US relations, here called wobbles. This “wobbly cross” was examined for 1945 to 1975 in my PhD thesis. The aim of this MPhil thesis is to test whether the tendencies exposed then continued later.

Gürol Baba has his BA degree from Marmara University, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul, Turkey. He had his first MA degree from the Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, and his PhD degree from the Australian National University, Canberra at the Research School of Humanities. He is currently holding an Associate Professor position at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Political Science Faculty, Department of International Relations. Dr Baba’s research areas are: Middle Powers in International Politics, Australian Foreign/Defence Policies, Asia-Pacific Regional Affairs, Australian-American Relations, Turkish Foreign/Defence Policies, Turkish-American Relations, Political Background of the Gallipoli Campaign 1915.