Abstract
The article aims to examine and explore with pros and cons of High-Level (“Strategic”) Cooperation Councils (HLSCC) mechanisms in Turkish foreign policy and evaluate its effectiveness in foreign trade, foreign policy cooperation, and crisis management capacity of Turkey concerning the relations with Russia. Turkey has already started to establish High-Level Cooperation Councils to build institutional infrastructure for strategic partnerships in foreign policy and strengthen institutional power in the bilateral cooperation after 2006. The study of Turkish foreign policy is an academically attractive topic mostly in terms of its geopolitical dimensions. The institutional mechanisms that enable the country to interact with other states in a dynamic regional and international environment remain less researched heretofore. The article attempts to highlight the evolution of Turkish foreign policy in terms of institutional changes in the bilateral and multilateral mechanisms. The article applies a case study method with descriptive analysis examining Councils’ functions such as foreign policy coordination and determination of collective commitments and official bilateral targets in the case of Russia - Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council. The article found out that these institutional mechanisms partly justified themselves as a coordination mechanism, but they were relatively weak for achieving the pledged commitments. The Councils were flexible and innovative cooperation mechanisms of the foreign policy to develop bilateral and multilateral ties in the age of the global power restructuring and the volatile conjuncture in world politics.
Highlights
The study of Turkish foreign policy is an academically attractive topic mostly in terms of its geopolitical dimensions
Its institutional mechanisms that enable the country to interact with other states in a dynamic regional and international environment remain less researched heretofore
After 2000, under the framework of “multivectorial” and multi-dimensional foreign policy approach, Turkey attempted to get a full membership from the European Union (EU) and established an intense relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and other regional organizations
Summary
The study of Turkish foreign policy is an academically attractive topic mostly in terms of its geopolitical dimensions. Ruling political elites in Turkey from liberal to social democrat and conservative politicians often asserted that Turkey’s global power is a “global reach” — to reach to every corner of the globe through international, regional, and bilateral organizational arrangements. This policy requires building effective and institutional bilateral relations with strategic partner countries without rupture and disconnection from traditional international organizations which are perceived to be more operative and suitable for interconnected world realities nowadays. International Relations, 2020, 20 (4), 791—804 which functions do these councils had to pursue to achieve high performances in the case of HLCC with Russia?
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