Becoming Global Actor: The Turkish Agenda for the Global South

Donelli, Federico; Levaggi, Ariel González

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“…However, especially during the last decade, there has been a reluctance to implement EU reforms and an increase in undemocratic measures (Soyaltin-Colella, 2020: 6). Additionally, the increasing tensions emerging from the EU’s reluctance to accept Turkey’s membership have led Turkey to adopt a more diplomatic approach to non-Western foreign policy (Donelli and Gonzalez-Levaggi, 2016). Turkey’s growing role in the Global South, particularly in regard to diplomatic networks, interregional politics and cooperation, refugee hosting and humanitarian assistance, has contributed to its growing influence in the political landscape.…”

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Welcoming immigrants in Istanbul: Gendering faith-based and professionalised hospitality

Şenses

Farahani

2021

Journal of Sociology

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This article examines the hospitality practices of pro-migrant civil society organisations in Istanbul. Drawing from qualitative interviews, we focus on intersecting gendered, professionalised and faith-based aspects of pro-migrant activities and explore the ways that politically and morally charged ambivalences of hospitality practices are articulated and negotiated. Moreover, by contextualising Turkey’s religious and geopolitical particularity as a gatekeeper of Europe, we work with Derrida’s concept of plural laws to investigate hospitality practices towards refugees in Istanbul. Civil actors’ intentions and attempts to be good citizens, Muslims, and care providers expose the intimate aspects of hospitality – a segue into discourses of displaced subjects’ (gendered) deservingness. By portraying how macro–micro, global–local and public–private relations condition hospitality practices, we observe how globalisation is lived intimately, influencing perceptions of deservingness and the prioritisation of displaced subjects’ needs.

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Welcoming immigrants in Istanbul: Gendering faith-based and professionalised hospitality

Şenses

Farahani

2021

Journal of Sociology

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“…In other words, Turkey, which displays and projects economic, military, political, and ideological influence in its near region, is qualified by scholars as an emerging middle power (Jabbour, 2017, pp. 27-28;Parlar Dal, 2018;Donelli and Gonzalez Levaggi, 2016). In summary, since the first decade of this century, China, Russia and Turkey have had a sustained economic development and did not hesitate to deploy efforts to increase their presence on the world stage by adopting ambitious, multidirectional and multidimensional policies both regionally and internationally.…”

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The Western Balkans at the crossroads of European integration and the emerging powers’ projection of influence

Lika

2021

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The Western Balkans on the way to EU membership: progress and challenges T he Western Balkans is a heterogeneous region made up of multiple nations, states, languages, cultures and faiths. The neologism "Western Balkans" is a political, geopolitical, technical and social construct concept, used for the first time by the European Union (EU) in December 1998. This concept currently includes six states: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Initially, Croatia was also part of it, until it joined the EU in 2013. During the 1990s, the EU demonstrated its strategic and operational presence in the Western Balkans, but it was the United States (US) that assumed the greatest role in the stabilization and pacification of the region. Moreover, although the European presence is intensifying in all areas, the US and the North

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“…To illustrate, Korea focusses on "learning from experience" in its official motto and positions it as a model that is based on its own experience of receiving and using aid for poverty eradication-and most importantly in becoming a DAC donor as a result of its development success (Stallings and Kim 2017). Turkey, on the other hand, after a brief period of rapprochement with the OECD-DAC, has adopted a foreign aid discourse detached from the Committee, which envisages a global role for Turkey through its engagement with Southern partners, wherein Turkey will ideationally rebuild the historical and cultural ties of the Ottoman Empire (Donelli and Levaggi 2016).…”

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Middle Powers in International Development Cooperation: Assessing the Roles of South Korea and Turkey

Baydag

2020

The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda

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This chapter analyses the foreign aid discourses of South Korea and Turkey in international development cooperation under the framework of middle-power theory. Korea and Turkey make use of their middle-power identity with the aim of increasing their presence around the globe, where foreign aid is used as an important foreign policy tool. They claim to be like-minded peers playing a bridging role between the developed and developing worlds. Despite opting for similar results in global politics, they show divergent strategic and ideational pathways in foreign aid. This creates significant implications for cooperation at the global level, especially because it questions the role of middle-power collaboration in facilitating possible rapprochement between traditional and emerging donors as well as within the Southern providers.

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Becoming Global Actor: The Turkish Agenda for the Global South

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Welcoming immigrants in Istanbul: Gendering faith-based and professionalised hospitality

Welcoming immigrants in Istanbul: Gendering faith-based and professionalised hospitality

The Western Balkans at the crossroads of European integration and the emerging powers’ projection of influence

Middle Powers in International Development Cooperation: Assessing the Roles of South Korea and Turkey

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