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Turkey's foreign policy implementation in sub-Saharan Africa: A post-international approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Volkan İpek  and
Gonca Biltekin
Volkan İpek
Affiliation:
Bilkent University, Department of Political Science, volkani@bilkent.edu.tr
Gonca Biltekin
Affiliation:
Bilkent University, Department of International Relations, goncabi@bilkent.edu.tr
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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 Turkeys 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.

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Turkish foreign policyTurkey-Africa relationssub-Saharan Africapost-internationalismforeign policy implementation
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 49 , Fall 2013 , pp. 121 - 156
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2013

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