Abstract Behar Sadriu
Networks of influence: reconceptualising soft power This paper aims to analyse one particularly effective facet of Turkey’s soft power approach. However, soft power is not defined, nor conceptualized, as it was originally conceived of by Nye – rather, by integrating literature from network analysis, I will highlight the ways in which successful use of different networks (in this case by Turkey) can have a profound effect in expanding a country’s foreign policy choices. This paper argues it is crucial that soft power is conceptualized in more nuanced ways, rather than simply referring to a states’ norms and values, media or other reified phenomena. Soft power is about very concrete material forces that a state has at its disposal. Networks are