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Abstract
ABSTRACT Crony capitalism as a type of capitalism entailing the close relations of political authorities and business circles based on mutual profit maximization is not a new phenomenon in Turkey. However, crony relations have accelerated with the Justice and Development Party (Adalet Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) rule. Despite growing scholarly work on crony relations in the AKP era, the literature remains inward-oriented without analysing the external dimension of crony capitalism, which this article intends to alleviate by providing an analysis of crony capitalism and bringing back the external dimension through an analysis of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)-related crony relations. It argues that the case of Turkey demonstrates how the BRI is used to feed instrumental cronyism without the promotion of China and how recipient countries use and misuse Chinese BRI investments to create alternative resources for the government’s cronies.
裙带资本主义作为一种资本主义形式，在土耳其并不是一种新现象，它包含了政治当局和商界基于相互利益最大化的密切关系。然而，随着正义与发展党(Adalet Kalkınma Partisi - AKP)的执政，裙带关系加速发展。尽管关于AKP时代裙带关系的学术研究越来越多，但文献仍然是内向的，没有分析裙带资本主义的外部维度，本文旨在通过对裙带资本主义的分析，并通过对“一带一路”相关裙带关系的分析，将外部维度带回来，从而缓解这一问题。它认为，土耳其的案例表明，在没有中国推动的情况下，“一带一路”如何被用来助长工具性裙带关系，以及受援国如何利用和滥用中国的“一带一路”投资，为政府的裙带关系创造替代资源。
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The aim of the journal is to establish a line of communication with these regions of Europe. Previously isolated from the European mainstream, the Balkan and Black Sea regions are in need of serious comparative study as are the individual countries, no longer "at the edge" of Europe. The principal disciplines covered by the journal are politics, political economy, international relations and modern history; other disciplinary approaches are accepted as appropriate. The journal will take both an academic and also a more practical policy-oriented approach and hopes to compensate for the serious information deficit on the countries under consideration.
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