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Even if the origins of Bolivia and Turkey diplomatic relations can be traced to the 1950`s, major advances took place just in the last few years. In 2018 Turkey opened its Embassy in La Paz and one year later Bolivia`s President Evo Morales visited Ankara and met with President Erdogan. It was the first time in the history of both countries that a meeting at the presidential level took place.
The objective of the book is to analyze the development of this relation within the broader picture of Bolivia`s foreign policy towards the Middle East and Turkey`s foreign policy towards Latin America using role theory a theoretical framework. More specifically, the thesis will examine Bolivia and Turkey own national role conceptions, their role in each other regions, their role expectations (perceptions) and enacted roles towards each other

The research found which enacted roles by Bolivia and Turkey are compatible/incompatible and how the enactment of more specific roles, from the part of Bolivia, can be benefitial for the relation. Also perceptions/misspeceptions about both countries were identified. Finally, suggestions were given about how Bolivia`s foreing policy towards the Middle East in general and Turkey in specific can improve. In the case of the bilateral relation with Turkey, oportunities in the areas of trade, tourism, culture, academics, connectivity and solitions for the drug trafficking problem were identified.