[ La diplomatie économique turque en Afrique Subsaharienne: Réalités et enjeux ]
Volume 56, Issue 2, September 2021, Pages 83–94
Bouchaib EZ-ZAHRI1
1 Département des Science Economiques, Faculté des Sciences Juridiques Economiques et Sociales Souissi, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Since the AKP (Party for Justice and Development) political party came to power in 2002, Turkey seems to be paying particular attention to economic cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2005, declared by Ankara «year of Africa», Turkey has multiplied its actions and initiatives towards SSA: organization of partnership summits and Turkey-Africa business and investment forums accompanied by increasing integration in African regional organizations. The objective of this article is to comprehend this recent deployment of Turkish economic diplomacy vis-à-vis the Sub-Saharan Africa by stressing the evolution of its economic and trade relations with SSA, the governmental action, the role of private actors, but also the motivations and challenges. Analyzing these aspects has enabled us to observe the particularity of the Turkish economic diplomacy in terms of approach and commitments of private actors in the promotion of the Turkish economic interests in SSA and the complementarity of its role with the official economic diplomacy. As a result, the volume of Turkish-African trade has increased significantly since 2005. In addition, this economic diplomacy has also been put to the service of diplomatic issues on the Continent.
Author Keywords: Turkey, Sub-Saharan Africa, Foreign policy, Economic diplomacy, private actors, trade, FDI.
Volume 56, Issue 2, September 2021, Pages 83–94
Bouchaib EZ-ZAHRI1
1 Département des Science Economiques, Faculté des Sciences Juridiques Economiques et Sociales Souissi, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Since the AKP (Party for Justice and Development) political party came to power in 2002, Turkey seems to be paying particular attention to economic cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2005, declared by Ankara «year of Africa», Turkey has multiplied its actions and initiatives towards SSA: organization of partnership summits and Turkey-Africa business and investment forums accompanied by increasing integration in African regional organizations. The objective of this article is to comprehend this recent deployment of Turkish economic diplomacy vis-à-vis the Sub-Saharan Africa by stressing the evolution of its economic and trade relations with SSA, the governmental action, the role of private actors, but also the motivations and challenges. Analyzing these aspects has enabled us to observe the particularity of the Turkish economic diplomacy in terms of approach and commitments of private actors in the promotion of the Turkish economic interests in SSA and the complementarity of its role with the official economic diplomacy. As a result, the volume of Turkish-African trade has increased significantly since 2005. In addition, this economic diplomacy has also been put to the service of diplomatic issues on the Continent.
Author Keywords: Turkey, Sub-Saharan Africa, Foreign policy, Economic diplomacy, private actors, trade, FDI.
Abstract: (french)
Depuis l'arrivée au pouvoir du parti politique AKP (Parti pour la justice et le développement) en 2002, la Turquie semble porter une attention particulière à la coopération économique avec l'Afrique Sub-saharienne. Depuis 2005, déclarée par Ankara « année de l’Afrique”, la Turquie a multiplié ses actions envers l’ASS: organisation de sommets de partenariat et de forums d’affaires et d’investissement Turquie-Afrique accompagnée d’une insertion croissante dans les organisations régionales africaines. L’objectif de cet article est d’appréhender ce déploiement récent de la diplomatie économique turque vis-à-vis de l’Afrique Sub-saharienne en mettant l’accent sur l’évolution de ses relations économiques et commerciales avec cette aire géographique, le poids de l’action gouvernementale, le rôle des acteurs privés, mais également sur les enjeux et les défis. Notre démarche d’analyse de ces aspects, nous a permet de constater une particularité de la diplomatie économique turque en termes d’approche et d’engagements d’acteurs privés dans la promotion des intérêts économiques turcs en ASS et la complémentarité du rôle de ces derniers avec la diplomatie économique officielle. En conséquence, le volume des échanges commerciaux turco-africains a augmenté de manière significative depuis 2005. En plus, cette diplomatie économique a été mise également au service d’enjeux diplomatique sur le Continent.
Author Keywords: Turquie, Afrique Sub-saharienne, Politique étrangère, Diplomatie économique, acteurs privés, échanges commerciaux, IDE.
How to Cite this Article
Bouchaib EZ-ZAHRI, “Turkish Economic Diplomacy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Realities and Challenges,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 83–94, September 2021.
