Turkey's foreign policy implementation in sub-Saharan Africa: a post-international approach
Author
İpek, V.
Biltekin, G.
Date
2013-09Source Title
New Perspectives on Turkey
Print ISSN
1305-3299
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Volume
49
Pages
121 - 156
Language
English
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Abstract
Turkey's activism in Africa has been extensively noted. It has been argued that non-state actors like business and civil society organizations take part in Turkey's Africa initiative. Nevertheless, state/non-state interaction in Turkey's foreign policy implementation has not been accounted for in theoretical terms in Turkish foreign policy literature. This paper combines post-international theory and foreign policy implementation in looking at Turkey's foreign policy towards sub-Saharan Africa. We argue that adapting to the multi-centric world, the Turkish government has moved beyond conventional state-to-state dealings in implementing its foreign policy and increasingly relies on the cooperation of non-state actors.
Keywords
Foreign policy implementationPost-internationalism
Sub-Saharan Africa
Turkey-Africa relations
Turkish foreign policy