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

Year: 2020

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: 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.

Source: Springer eBooks

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57938-8_20

Author: R. Melis Baydag

Institution: Ruhr University Bochum

Language: English

Topic: International Development and Aid

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Partnerships for the goals, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik