Assessing the Impact of Turkey’s Quest for Status Since the 2000s on Foreign Policy Change: Transformational or Transactional?

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Résumé

This paper delves into an assessment of the impact of Turkey’s quest for status since the 2000s
on changes in its foreign policy. In other words, how has Turkey’s search for status influenced its
foreign policy stances since the 2000s? And can we consider the changes in Turkey’s foreign policy
change transformational or transactional in essence? In this vein, this paper will make essential
contributions to the existing literature on Turkey’s status-seeking strategies by using specific
cases to link them to changes in Turkey’s foreign policy and assessing the extent to which they are
transactional or transformational. The examination of this topic is all the more important in light of
internal developments in Turkey, such as democratic backsliding and economic crisis, as well external
factors such as its tense relationships with the EU, its rapprochement with Russia and China, and its
increasingly proactive profile in regional crises. This paper critically assesses the pattern of Turkey’s
foreign policy change from transformational and transactional perspectives

Mots-clés

Turkish Foreign Policy, Status Politics, International politics, Foreign policy change