Turkey and the EU: Accession and Reform

ISBN-13: 9780415615327 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 320 str.

Gamze Avci;Ali Carkoglu

Opis

Turkish accession to European Union is an important but controversial item on the agenda of the European Union. By focusing on the various domestic sources that drive Turkish politics, this volume provides a study of domestic politics and policies and their role in Turkey's EU accession.

Spis treści

Part 1: Historical Perspectives  1. Introduction: Taking Stock of the Dynamics that Shape EU Reforms in Turkey Gamze Avcı and Ali Çarkoğlu  2. Speeding up or Slowing down? Lessons from the Last Enlargement on the Dynamics of Enlargement-Driven Reform Antoaneta L. Dimitrova  3. The EU – Turkey Customs Union Fifteen Years Later: Better, Yet not the Best Alternative Kamil Yılmaz  4. Challenges of Triangular Relations: The US, the EU, and Turkish Accession Sabri Sayarı  Part 2: Political Change through EU Reforms  5. The Turkish – EU Odyssey and Political Regime Change in Turkey Ersin Kalaycıoğlu  6. Turkish Foreign Policy, its Domestic Determinants and the Role of the European Union Meltem Müftüler-Baç  7. The Impact of EU-Driven Reforms on the Political Autonomy of the Turkish Military Yaprak Gürsoy  8. Is Corruption a Drawback to Turkey’s Accession to the European Union? Fikret Adaman  Part 3: Human Rights and Minorities  9. Human Rights and Turkey’s EU Accession Process: Internal and External Dynamics, 2005-10 William Hale  10. The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: Limits of European Union Reform Kemal Kirisçi  11. A Precarious Relationship: The Alevi Minority, the Turkish State and the EU Ali Çarkoğlu and Nazlı Çağın Bilgili  Part IV: Mass Public Opinion, Elites and Civil Society  12. Diagnosing Trends and Determinants in Public Support for Turkey’s EU Membership  Ali Çarkoğlu and Çiğem Kentmen  13. Interacting Actors: The EU and Civil Society in Turkey  Ahmet İçduygu  14. The Turkish Parliamentary Elite and the EU: Mapping Attitudes towards the European Union  Sait Akşit, Özgehan Şenyuva and Işık Gürleyen  Part V: Political Parties  15. The Justice and Development Party and the EU: Political Pragmatism in a Changing Environment  Gamze Avcı  16. The Republican People’s Party and Turkey’s EU Membership  Ödül Celep  17. The Nationalist Movement Party’s Euroscepticism: Party Ideology Meets Strategy  Gamze Avcı  Part VI: The European Response  18. Between Reason and Emotion: Popular Discourses on Turkey’s Membership of the EU  Bernard Steunenberg, Simay Petek and Christiane Rüth  19. Turkish Accession and Defining the Boundaries of Nationalism and Supranationalism: Discourses in the European Commission  Senem Aydın Düzgit and Semin Suvarierol  20. Turcoscepticism and Threat Perception: European Public and Elite Opinion on Turkey’s Protracted EU Membership  Ebru Ş. Canan-Sokullu  21. Euro-Turks as a Force in EU – Turkey Relations  Ayhan Kaya

O autorze

Gamze Avcı is a lecturer at University College Utrecht at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She received her MA, PhD, at the University of Georgia in the US and her MSc from the London School of Economics. Her areas of research are primarily Turkey’s relationship with the European Union and Turkish immigration to Western Europe. Ali Çarkoğlu is a professor of political science at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. at State University of New York-Binghamton in 1994. His areas of research interest are comparative politics, voting behavior, public opinion and party politics in Turkey.