Altyapı Diplomasisi ve Körfez Bölgesi Düzeninin Jeo-Ekonomisi

Year 2025, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 197 - 213, 29.12.2025

Cavit Emre Aytekin

Abstract

Bu makale, ulaştırma, enerji ve altyapı ağlarının stratejik kullanımını inceleyerek altyapı diplomasisinin Körfez bölgesi siyasetini nasıl yeniden şekillendirdiğini ele almaktadır. Hidrokarbonlar, güvenlik ikilemleri ve büyük güç hizalanmalarına odaklanan geleneksel analizlerin ötesine geçerek, altyapıların aynı zamanda etki, karşılıklı bağımlılık ve rekabet araçları olarak işlev gördüğünü savunmaktadır. Jeoekonomik bir perspektiften hareketle çalışma, demiryolları, limanlar ve sınır ötesi enerji sistemlerini iç içe geçmiş vakalar olarak analiz etmektedir. Demiryolu projeleri Körfez birliği arzularını simgelese de ulusal önceliklerle sınırlı kalmakta; limanlar rekabet ve dış ortaklık alanları olarak öne çıkmakta; enerji boru hatları ve şebekeleri ise 2017–2021 ablukası gibi kriz dönemlerinde bile işbirliğini sürdürmektedir. Bu dinamikleri izleyerek makale, altyapı diplomasisine dair incelikli bir kavrayış geliştirmekte ve yönetişim düzenlemeleri ile maddi kalıcılığın, altyapıların ilişkileri istikrara mı kavuşturacağı yoksa rekabeti mi artıracağına yön verdiğini göstermektedir. Körfez deneyimi, altyapısal düzenlerin bölgesel düzenin istikrarı ve akışkanlığını nasıl şekillendirdiğini ortaya koymaktadır.

Keywords

Altyapı diplomasisi , Jeoekonomi , Körfez İşbirliği Konseyi (GCC) , Bağlantısallık , Bölgesel Karşılıklı Bağımlılık

Infrastructure Diplomacy and the Geo-Economics of Gulf Regional Order

Abstract

This article examines how infrastructure diplomacy is reshaping Gulf regional politics through the strategic deployment of transport, energy, and infrastructural networks. Moving beyond conventional analyses focused on hydrocarbons, security, and great-power alignments, it argues that infrastructures function as instruments of influence, interdependence, and competition. Adopting a geo-economic perspective, the study analyzes railways, ports, and cross-border energy systems as nested cases. Rail projects embody aspirations for Gulf unity yet remain constrained by national priorities; ports operate as arenas of competition and external engagement; and energy pipelines and grids sustain cooperation even amid crises such as the 2017–2021 blockade. By tracing these dynamics, the article advances a nuanced understanding of infrastructure diplomacy, showing how governance arrangements and material permanence determine whether infrastructures stabilize relations or intensify rivalries. The Gulf experience thus reveals how infrastructural architectures shape the stability and fluidity of regional order.

Keywords

Infrastructure diplomacy , Geo-economics , Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) , Connectivity , Regional Interdependence

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