When Can Idea Entrepreneurs Influence Foreign Policy? Explaining the Rise of the “Turkic World” in Turkish Foreign Policy

Köstem, Seçkin

doi:10.1093/fpa/orw016

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“…I contend that ideas by policy advisers surrounding Kennedy played a critical role in leading to further trade liberalization, and that these must be taken into account to understand the changes in trade policy in the 1960s. My argument is consonant with scholarship in the past decades which has paid increasing attention to the role that ideas play in their impact on policy outcomes, but which has only recently shifted its focus to the role that individualsas the carriers of ideasplay (see Alston, 2017;Béland and Cox, 2016;Carstensen, 2011;Couyoumdjian and Larroulet, 2018;Köstem, 2017;Morrison, 2012;Schmidt, 2017).…”

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Making ideas actionable in institutionalism: the case of trade liberalization in Kennedy's foreign economic policy

McAdam

2021

Journal of Institutional Economics

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This article challenges exclusively rationalist accounts of and offers a complementary explanation for the emergence of liberal trade policy in the Kennedy administration. I draw on recent insights in constructivist institutionalism to emphasize the need to take agency seriously in institutionalist research. Using archival records, I analyze the decisive role Kennedy's advisers played as carriers of ideas in advocating for liberal trade policy by ‘constructing the national interest’, thus convincing a reticent president to support attempts aimed at achieving closer economic integration, culminating in the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Insights from their role as advisers can help in specifying the role of agency in the ideas and institutional change literature, through strategic action which shaped a political leader's belief and put political issues on the agenda. By grasping agency in terms of making ideas actionable, an important step is taken in advancing endogenous approaches of institutional change.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Making ideas actionable in institutionalism: the case of trade liberalization in Kennedy's foreign economic policy

McAdam

2021

Journal of Institutional Economics

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“…In foreign policy analysis, studies examine the factors that lead certain international actors, commonly the state or governments, to take a foreign policy decision, such as the influence of the academic environment (Lorenzini and Doval 2013) and behavioural (Brecher, Steinberg and Stein 1969), ideological (Köstem 2017), and national and international contexts (Giacalone 2012). However, little is observed about the pressure exerted by non-colonial social groups on foreign policy decisions.…”

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Domestic Workers: Postcolonial Inheritance and International Relations

Pozo

2022

Contexto int.

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The discipline of International Relations (IR) in Latin American is still dominated by positivist and Westernized research. This creates challenges for international studies such as how to visualise the subjects or ‘sujetas’ who participate in national and international politics but are ignored in this field, and how to value the current postcolonial research, which offers critical perspectives that equilibrate the epistemic balance and help build adequate tools to understand different regional phenomena. By analysing a case study of the Association of Women Domestic Employees of Paraguay, this article clarifies how a postcolonial approach enriches the field of IR. This study argues that postcolonialism contributes to this field by making visible cognitive subjects and ‘sujetas’, who offer an alternative knowledge construction to rethink international relations with a meta-theoretical extension, visible. Postcolonialism is the theoretical basis of this qualitative research. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observations. This article suggests and concludes that women domestic workers as ‘political subjects’ enrich international relations by offering critical views to the research carried out in the subfields of foreign policy analysis, international political economy, and regionalism.

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“…Picking up on the argument that Turkey needed to use its ‘civilizational assets’ instrumentally and adapting it to their formulation of a ‘new’ Turkish foreign policy, policy makers within the AKP focused on expansion of soft power through the use of Turkish culture, identity and history (Dal 2012). Identity became a crucial foreign policy tool not only in the Middle East but also in other regions such as Central Asia where the AKP government utilised common heritage emphasising ideational factors, such as the notion of ‘Turkic world’, to guide Turkey's policy (Köstem 2017).…”

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Turkey and African agency: the role of Islam and commercialism in Turkey's Africa policy

Süsler

Alden

2022

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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The concept of ‘agency’ and its role in capturing the dynamics between Africa and external actors feature increasingly in the African IR scholarship. Over the past decade, Turkey has become an increasingly prominent actor in Africa, strengthening political, cultural and economic ties with African states and providing humanitarian aid and development assistance. In this paper, we examine Turkey's relationship with Africa from the point of view of African agency and ask ‘How much and what kind of agency can we identify by examining the way in which Turkey approaches African states?’ The conventional understanding of the concept of African agency defines it in materialist terms and emphasises its transactional nature; it does not adequately explain incidents of enhanced outcomes for Africans in their relationship with Turkey. We argue that an under-examined aspect and a vital source of African agency lies within the discourses of Turkish policy which provide an enabling source of policy space for negotiation for Africans. We demonstrate that the notion of Muslim kinship in Turkish discourses not only distinguishes Turkey from most of the other external powers engaging with the continent but also enables African interlocutors to negotiate enhanced outcomes.

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When Can Idea Entrepreneurs Influence Foreign Policy? Explaining the Rise of the “Turkic World” in Turkish Foreign Policy

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Making ideas actionable in institutionalism: the case of trade liberalization in Kennedy's foreign economic policy

Making ideas actionable in institutionalism: the case of trade liberalization in Kennedy's foreign economic policy

Domestic Workers: Postcolonial Inheritance and International Relations

Turkey and African agency: the role of Islam and commercialism in Turkey's Africa policy

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