Turkish power contestation with the United Arab Emirates: an empirical assessment of official development assistance.

ABSTRACT: Turkey's post-Arab Spring regional rivalry with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) influences the allocation of its Official Development Assistance (ODA). Our paper provides a comprehensive comparison of Turkish and UAE's ODA on global and regional levels. To understand the effects of power struggle on Turkish ODA, we employ a time-series cross-sectional model, taking Turkey's annual ODA allocations as our dependent variable, and the UAE's global and regional ODA levels as our independent variables. We observe that Africa emerges as the main region where the rivalry between Turkey and the UAE intensifies. Based on our regression analysis covering 2000-2020, our findings demonstrate the limits of religious-cultural explanations of foreign aid, suggesting donors' geopolitical interests playing a

SUBMITTER: Mugurtay N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9670075 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature