Becoming a Regional Power While Pursuing Material Gains

Korkut, Umut; Civelekoğlu, İlke

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“…Major Asian countries' African engagements have been compared to assess the possibility of Asian partnerships in Africa (Iwata 2012(Iwata , 2020. The issue of emerging powers in Africa has been studied using diverse paradigms: Marxist, critical, neo-liberal or more realist (Ayers 2013;Corkin and Naidu 2008;Darracq and Neville 2014;Davis 2018;Hirono 2019;Iwata 2012;Kato 2017;Korkut and Civelekoglu 2013;Kornegay and Landsberg 2009;Van der Merwe, Taylor, and Arkhangelskaya 2016;Zhao 2014). Different variables or determinants of Asian approaches towards Africa have been identified such as diplomatic reasons with for example China's struggle against Taiwan and post-1989 sanctions or South Korea facing North Korea; the need to secure resources; or market access (Alden 2005;Darracq and Neville 2014;Iwata 2012;Van der Merwe, Taylor, and Arkhangelskaya 2016).…”

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“…The SSC discourse is often presented as a mask dissimulating national interests (Van der Merwe,Taylor, and Arkhangelskaya 2016;Taylor 2014). 3 SSC combines seeking material benefits as well as human achievements in the Bandung solidarity tradition(Korkut and Civelekoglu 2013;Ndzendze 2018). 4 The short development on Indonesia in Africa in the collective book Emerging Powers in Africa is not satisfying.…”

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Indonesia’s African Foreign Policy Shift under President Jokowi

Dorigné-Thomson¹

2021

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Under President Jokowi’s leadership, Indonesia seems to have made Africa a foreign policy priority. Previously bounded by Bandung romanticism and lacking understanding on the contemporary strategic importance of Africa, Indonesia finally launched its own Africa+1 forum in April 2018 in Bali, the Indonesia Africa Forum (IAF), following an economic diplomacy framework and will to do business with Africa. For Jokowi, Bandung should be leveraged to mean business. Indonesia had previously struggled to institutionalize Asia-Africa intercontinental multilateralism through the New Africa-Asia Strategic Partnership (NAASP) launched during the 2005 Asia Africa Summit in Jakarta organized to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bandung Conference; while other major Asian powers such as Japan, China, Malaysia, India or South Korea developed their own political, economic and cultural platforms with African countries. Closing a clear research gap, this original study allows a better comprehension of this foreign policy shift and of Indonesia's contemporary foreign policy towards Africa within Global Africa Studies. For more pragmatism and flexibility, this qualitative research, notably based on in-depth interviews with Indonesian and African diplomats, uses an eclectic analysis allowing a holistic approach combining levels of analysis and types of factors; thus increasing explanatory power.

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2021

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“…Ankara's Africa policy in the new millennium has been mainly motivated by the prospects of economic gains and political visibility in international affairs. 35 Such strategic concerns seem to have become even more pressing in the last few years. Africa's economic potential surely remains a driving force of its Opening to Africa policy, but it is not the sole explanation for Ankara's advances.…”

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Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Theater for Middle East Power Struggles

Heibach

2020

Middle East Policy

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“…They were the main beneficiaries of the liberalization of Turkish market space under successive AK Party governments and are, in part, responsible for the continued electoral victories of Erdoğan (Aneja, 2012). In return for their support, Erdoğan and his government have been instrumental in locating new markets for their goods in countries like Somalia and Kenya (Lough, 2012;Korkut and Civelekoğlu, 2012).…”

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Turkey in Kenya and Kenya in Turkey: Alternatives to the East/West paradigm in diplomacy, trade and security

Cannon¹

2016

Afr. J. Pol. Sci. Int. Relat.

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Kenya and Turkey are natural partners but also an odd couple. Although both are fledgling democracies with rapidly growing economies and populations, and facing similar security concerns emanating from transnational terrorism, Turkey is a medium-size country while Kenya is a relatively small state. Turkish-Kenyan relations have grown rapidly over the last two decades raising three questions, which this study attempts to answer: What is the scope of this relationship and how does it offer a viable alternative to East/West partners? ; What explains the burgeoning relationship between Kenya and Turkey? ; What can both countries do to strengthen this budding relationship, or, in the alternative, what can undermine it? This study argues that a combination of domestic factors and leadership in both countries undergird increasing Turkish-Kenyan relations. These factors help explain Turkey's spearheading of a diplomatic, economic and strategic charm offensive that dovetailed with Kenya's search for alternative geo-strategic and trade partners. Kenya's and Turkey's search and their accompanying "discovery" of one another has led to a robust relationship based on shared interests in diplomacy, trade and security. However, both countries will need to gain a greater understanding of one another and compromise in areas such as tariffs and export quotas for this relationship to prosper and to be sustainable.

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Becoming a Regional Power While Pursuing Material Gains

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Indonesia’s African Foreign Policy Shift under President Jokowi

Indonesia’s African Foreign Policy Shift under President Jokowi

Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Theater for Middle East Power Struggles

Turkey in Kenya and Kenya in Turkey: Alternatives to the East/West paradigm in diplomacy, trade and security

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