Abstract
This study aims to understand the role of the leadership styles of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in European Union-Turkey relations by conducting a Leadership Trait Analysis (LTA), which takes into account the leaders’ personalities in foreign policy. The article makes use of the verbal records of the two leaders regarding the bilateral relations between their countries and the European Union. The results unveil that the two leaders’ personal characteristics bear similarities to a considerable extent; i.e., both leaders are sceptical in inter-personal relations, discernibly intuitive, self-confident and so forth. The study suggests that those personal traits of the leaders which have occasionally outweighed crude rationality have been some of the important factors enabling the sustainability of relations between Turkey and the EU against all odds.
Highlights
The personal characteristics of strong political leaders are of paramount importance for sustaining dialogue, developing new ties, strengthening bilateral relations as well as reducing the tension between countries
Those personality traits constitute the essence of our individual-level content analysis of Turkish and German foreign policies within the wider context of Turkey–EU relations and we attempt to diagnose the impact of leadership styles of Erdogan and Merkel by employing the Margaret Hermann’s Leadership Trait Analysis (LTA) technique, which is based on a machine-coded analysis of verbal records
The two leaders’ belief in the ability to control events (BACE) and PWR scores are averages that make us presume that they can go either toward challenging the situation or toward respecting constraints, depending on the context and situation. Their low score in Ingroup bias (IGB) means that they are still interested in maintaining their group as separate entities and categorize others according to the problem or context
Summary
The personal characteristics of strong political leaders are of paramount importance for sustaining dialogue, developing new ties, strengthening bilateral relations as well as reducing the tension between countries In this respect, the current study examines the leadership styles of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela. The study aims to analyse the political rhetoric of the leaders by identifying certain words, themes and concepts which are supposedly interlinked with their personal standings regarding the political process of Turkey’s accession to the EU Those personality traits constitute the essence of our individual-level content analysis of Turkish and German foreign policies within the wider context of Turkey–EU relations and we attempt to diagnose the impact of leadership styles of Erdogan and Merkel by employing the Margaret Hermann’s Leadership Trait Analysis (LTA) technique, which is based on a machine-coded analysis of verbal records. It examines the views elaborating the steadily enhancing role of leadership in bilateral relations over
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