ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION: TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION: TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

Summary/Abstract: This study analyzes the recent trajectory of Turkish foreign policy from the prism of international political economy with special reference to its impact on Turkey’s ongoing democratic consolidation and global integration. Adapting an interdisciplinary approach with insights from political science, international relations, economics and development studies, Turkey’s structural transformation from an inward-looking import-substitution regime to a liberal export-promotion strategy are evaluated. In this context, the first and second generation neoliberal reforms in the 1980s and the 2000s are highlighted in line with their impact on democratic consolidation and global integration. The processes of state transformation and the ascendancy of economic issues to the level of “high politics” in the post-Cold War era are stressed with reference to economic diplomacy and “neo-protectionist” science and technology policies by industrialized and industrializing countries. Major caveats of accelerated global integration for Turkey’s “new foreign policy” and principal policy challenges in the realms of macroeconomic management, democratic consolidation and foreign policy are also identified.

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