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Dr. Erdi Kutlu is an independent researcher specialised in international relations and European studies. He has a bachelor degree in international relations from Kocaeli University, a master degree in European Union from Dokuz Eylul University and PhD degree in international relations from Ege University. As part of his PhD studies, he spent a visiting period at Exeter University, the UK within the Erasmus exchange program. His recent research interests include Brexit, European neighbourhood policy, Turkey-EU relations. He has published several scholarly articles and book chapters in the area of European studies and international relations.
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.
Erdi Kutlu; Çağdaş Cengiz; Murat Necip Arman; Emir Ozeren. Understanding the Role of Leadership Styles of Erdogan and Merkel in Sustainability of Turkey-European Union Relations: A Leadership Trait Analysis. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9258 .
AMA StyleErdi Kutlu, Çağdaş Cengiz, Murat Necip Arman, Emir Ozeren. Understanding the Role of Leadership Styles of Erdogan and Merkel in Sustainability of Turkey-European Union Relations: A Leadership Trait Analysis. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9258.
Chicago/Turabian StyleErdi Kutlu; Çağdaş Cengiz; Murat Necip Arman; Emir Ozeren. 2021. "Understanding the Role of Leadership Styles of Erdogan and Merkel in Sustainability of Turkey-European Union Relations: A Leadership Trait Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9258.