Turkey's Road to European Union Membership : National Identity and Political Change

ISBN-13: 9780415466196 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 144 str.

Verney Susannah; Susannah Verney

Opis

Enlargement to Turkey is one of the greatest challenges facing the European Union today. This volume examines the EU role in strengthening the domestic pro-reform coalition within Turkey, the potential limits of Turkey's europeanizing Islamists, and the impact of Europeanization through conditionality, including Turkish policy towards the Cyprus Question.

Spis treści

1. National Identity and Political Change on Turkey’s Road to EU Membership  2. Turkey in Transition: Opportunities Amidst Peril?  3. Running Around in Circles? The Cyclical Relationship between Turkey and the European Union  4. Muslim Democrats Versus Defensive Nationalists: Political Parties and Paradoxes of Europeanization in Turkey  5. Europeanization Through EU Conditionality: Understanding the New Era in Turkish Foreign Policy  6. The Europeanisation of Turkey and its Impact on the Cyprus Problem  7. Religiosity and Protest Behaviour: The Case of Turkey in Comparative Perspective  8. Turkish Identity on the Road to the EU: Basic Elements of French and German Oppositional Discourses  9. The Dynamics of EU Accession: Turkish Travails in Comparative Perspective

O autorze

Susannah Verney is Lecturer in International and European Studies, University of Athens and Editor, South European Society & Politics. Kostas Ifantis is Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Athens and Director, Hellenic Centre for European Studies (EKEM).