New Perspectives on Turkey-EU Relations
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 Turkeys 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. Turkeys 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.
Chris Rumford is Professor of Political Sociology and Global Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London where he is also Director of the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. His research interests include Turkey-EU relations, Europes shifting borders, globalization theory, cosmopolitanism, and the politics of cricket.
New Perspectives on Turkey-EU Relations
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Contents
Chris Rumford
Nora Fisher Onar
Didem Buhari-Gulmez
Edward Webb
Johanna Nyknen
Gulay Icoz
Bilgin Ayata
Hasan Turun
The following chapters were originally published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, volume 19, issue 4 (December 2011). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Editorial: New Perspectives on Turkey-EU Relations
Chris Rumford
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, volume 19, issue 4 (December 2011) pp. 459462
Constructing Turkey Inc.: The Discursive Anatomy of a Domestic and Foreign Policy Agenda
Nora Fisher Onar
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, volume 19, issue 4 (December 2011) pp. 463474
Ombudsmanship and Turkeys Europeanization in World Society
Didem Buhari-Gulmez
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, volume 19, issue 4 (December 2011) pp. 475488
Resisting Anamnesis: A Nietzschean Analysis of Turkeys National History Education
Edward Webb
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, volume 19, issue 4 (December 2011) pp. 489500
A Bakhtinian Approach to EU-Turkey Relations
Johanna Nyknen
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, volume 19, issue 4 (December 2011) pp. 501510
Turkeys Path to EU Membership: An Historical Institutionalist Perspective
Gulay Icoz
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, volume 19, issue 4 (December 2011) pp. 511522
Kurdish Transnational Politics and Turkeys Changing Kurdish Policy: The Journey of Kurdish Broadcasting from Europe to Turkey
Bilgin Ayata
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, volume 19, issue 4 (December 2011) pp. 523534
The Post-westernisation of EU-Turkey Relations
Hasan Turun
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, volume 19, issue 4 (December 2011) pp. 535546
Bilgin Ayata is Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department of Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the The Transformative Power of Europe research group at the Freie Universitt. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and an MA in Political Science from York University, Canada.
Didem Buhari-Gulmez studied International Relations at the Middle East Technical University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of London. From September 2013 she will be an Early Career Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. Her publications on world polity and Turkey-European Union relations have appeared in International Political Sociology, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, South East European and Black Sea Studies, and New Global Studies.
Gulay Icoz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London. She holds an MRES in European Politics from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a BA in Politics from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Since 2006 she has been a Local Councillor in the London Borough of Hackney.
Johanna Nyknen is a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. She was previously a Research Assistant in the EU research programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and a visiting researcher at Bogazici University, Turkey. She holds an MA in Central and South-East European Studies from University College London.