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CHAPTER 8
Assessing Turkey’s New Global Governance
Strategies: The G20 Example
Emel Parlar Dal and Ali Murat Kurşun
INTRODUCTION
The G20 and the contributions of its members have become an increasingly
debated research topic in recent years. As one of the main actors acting in
the sub-institutional system of the Bretton Woods system, the G20 is a
good illustrator of the changing nature of a less structured and more frag-
mented international order which allows rising powers greater room for
maneuvering and international status. The ascendance of the rising powers
has been the gradual process of peripheralization of world politics in recent
years, with multiple power poles diffusing power from center to the margins
of the international system. Of course, this decentering trend in world poli-
tics was initially approved of and supported by the previous American
administration seeking to push emerging powers to share the global respon-
sibilities which had previously been assumed mainly by the grand powers. In
the current uncertain picture of world politics, it is still too early to know if
the Trump administration will be as eager as the Obama administration to
attribute greater roles to emerging powers. However, some clues as to the
Trump administration’s ideological, political, and economic perception of
E. Parlar Dal (*) • A. M. Kurşun
Faculty of Political Sciences, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey