The research on relations between Turkey and the European Union usually focuses on the Turkish state's relations with European institutions. As the boundaries between international and domestic politics blur, there is need for a new approach. Based on the transnational model in international relations theory, this book surveys the Turkish civil society organizations' relations with the EU, in their efforts to strategically alter the state's preferences in favor of their own political agenda. Focusing on three types of civil society actors, i.e., businessmen's associations, workers' unions,...

This book analyzes the transformation of Turkey’s international and domestic politics in the past two decades through a comprehensive domestic- international nexus. It examines the domestic system and the main historical challenges without neglecting their international drivers and looks into main foreign policy areas and issues by accounting for the domestic developments that affected them. Looking inside Turkey’s transformation on the basis of an interplay of external and internal factors, through the prism of critical scholars who all agree on the interdependency of national and...