The Impact of Europeanization on Turkish Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9783639169751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 132 str.

Fuat Canan

Opis

A considerable interest has recently emerged inanalysing the EU impact on Turkeys democratizationprocess, human rights and minority issues. Yet, fewstudies exist with regard to the EU impact on Turkishforeign policy. This book, therefore, provides readerwith a useful framework to understand major changesin Turkish foreign policy with a specific referenceto the Europeanization impact on Turkish foreignpolicy. The EU conditionality mechanism was mainlyemployed as a method of examination to identify howsome of Turkeys foreign policy issues have beenreconstructed under the EU influence. The impact ofEU conditionality with respect to Turkish-Greekrelations and Cyprus issue is examined to illustratehow some of the key foreign policy issues havebeen reconstructed by Ankara recently. Likewise,democratization reforms in line with the EU accessionprocess have radically altered civil-militaryrelations, thus having a major impact on thedemocratization of foreign policy-making in Turkey.This book makes a good contribution to the literatureon Europeanization of foreign policies, and should beespecially useful for analysts, academics, andexperts on Turkey.

O autorze

MPHIL: Sussex European Institute, University of
Sussex, UK. Civil servant in the Office of Prime Minister,
Ankara, Turkey.