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ABSTRACT
This study aims to explore how rising powers who are also donors within the G20 strive to achieve a positively distinctive identity in the field of development cooperation through status-seeking strategies. The article employs Social Identity Theory (SIT) to critically examine and understand the increasing importance of South-South cooperation in the foreign policies of the nine selected G20 rising donors (namely China, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, India and Argentina). For this purpose, it will first explain why status matters for rising powers. Second, it will present the linkage between status-seeking policies of states and state identity. Third, it exposes social creativity as a driver of state behaviour. And fourth, it focuses on G20 rising powers’ quest for status through social creativity with a particular focus on South-South development cooperation.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their fruitful comments and the editors and guest editors of this special issue.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
ORCID
Emel Parlar Dal http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-6069
Notes on contributors
Emel Parlar Dal is associate professor at Marmara University’s Department of International Relations. She conducted research at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva during the 2010–2011 academic year. In 2013 she was an academic visitor at St. Anthony’s College Middle East Centre, Oxford University. During 2015–2016 she worked as the coordinator of a TUBITAK-SOBAG research project on the contribution of Turkey and the BRICS to global governance. Her recent publications have appeared in Third World Quarterly (SSCI), Global Policy (SSCI), Contemporary Politics, International Politics (SSCI), Turkish Studies (SSCI), International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (SSCI), and Perceptions.
Samiratou Dipama holds a PhD in EU Politics and International Relations from the European Union Institute of Marmara University. She has published various articles on political conditionality, democracy promotion and development aid in indexed journals and edited books.