ISBN:
9780415828024
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (247 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Turkey and the European Union : Facing New Challenges and Opportunities
DDC:
395.5/2/094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In recent years, Turkey has become an ever more important actor on the international stage. However, Turkey-EU relations still remain in a state of flux. The EU and Turkey seem to have moved apart in their political aspirations after Turkey's EU accession talks faced a stalemate over the Republic of Cyprus' EU accession as a divided island. Likewise, both Turkey and the EU have recently faced new socio-political realities, such as the Eurozone crisis, the Arab Spring and the Turkish government's shifting foreign policy towards the Middle East region. Such developments have rendered EU membersh
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Turkey and the European Union; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Introduction; 1 The European Union, Turkey and the Cyprus problem: the failure of a catalyst; 2 The Cyprus issue and Turkey's accession negotiations: catalyst effect or Gordian knot?; 3 The Cyprus Challenge in Turkey-EU relations: heading towards the defining moment?; 4 The Arab Spring and regional integration: can the European Union and Turkey co-operate?; 5 Turkey in progress: foreign policy, geopolitics and democracy
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Explaining the rise of Euroscepticism in the Turkish political elite7 Free movement of Turkish citizens after the Soysal judgment; 8 The AKP's shifting support for EU accession: secular constraints, organizational capacities and religious ideas; 9 Rethinking conditionality: gender equality and the Kurdish issue in Turkey's EU accession framework; 10 The domestic effects of Turkey's EU accession negotiations: a missed opportunity for Europe?; 11 The European Union and political reform in Turkey: moving beyond conditionality; Conclusions; Epilogue; Index
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