New perspectives on Turkey-EU relations

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New perspectives on Turkey-EU relations

edited by Chris Rumford

Routledge, 2013

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This book makes the case for looking afresh at Turkey-EU relations in order to appreciate the richness and complexity of a relationship which is now more than 50 years old and is still not close to reaching fulfilment. The contributors challenge conventional attempts to understand Turkey-EU relations, revealing that EU integration studies has been rather poor at understanding the global context within which Turkey-EU developments take place. More surprising perhaps, EU integration studies has also struggled to give sufficient weight to the potential of Turkey's domestic politics to shape EU enlargement. The volume attempts to correct these imbalances by offering both a global context and new perspectives on the drivers of domestic politics. It represents a shift from a narrow EU integration/enlargement agenda. Turkey's position vis-a-vis the EU cannot be adequately captured by simplistic notions of conditionality, harmonization, and an uncritical interpretation of Europeanization. A more rounded view of Turkey-EU relations is advanced based upon a broader context of European and global transformations. The contributions, collected here, offer an interpretation of Turkey-EU relations from a novel perspective, utilize a new framework of theory, and draw upon insights and perspectives from disciplines underrepresented in mainstream study of Turkey-EU relations. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies.

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1. Editorial: New Perspectives on Turkey - EU Relations 2. Constructing Turkey Inc.: The Discursive Anatomy of a Domestic and Foreign Policy Agenda 3. Ombudsmanship and Turkey's Europeanization in 'World Society' 4. Resisting Anamnesis: A Nietzschean Analysis of Turkey's National History Education 5. A Bakhtinian Approach to EU - Turkey Relations 6. Turkey's Path to EU Membership: An Historical Institutionalist Perspective 7. Kurdish Transnational Politics and Turkey's Changing Kurdish Policy: The Journey of Kurdish Broadcasting from Europe to Turkey 8. The Post-westernisation of EU - Turkey Relations

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