Turkey and the European Union makes a scholarly contribution to the debate over Turkey’s participation in the European integration process and the EU’s future enlargement. It explores the recent history of EU-Turkish relations and looks at the prospects and challenges that Turkey’s membership presents to both the EU and Turkey.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction: Turkey at the Threshold of the EU; J.S.Joseph The Economic Dimension of Turkey’s EU Membership: A Stock-taking Exercise at the Start of Accession Negotiations; M.Ugur Between Fedora and Fez: Modern Turkey’s Troubled Road to Democratic Consolidation and the Pluralizing Role of Erdogan’s Pro-Islam Government; S.Kotsovilis The EU Challenge: A View from the Turkish Grand National Assembly; N.G.Loizides & E.Ersin Relations between the State and Civil Society in Turkey: Does the EU Make a Difference?; W.Weber The Kurdish Problem in International Politics; M.M.Gunter The Europeanization of Turkey’s Kurdish Question; N.Tocci The Greek Variable in EU-Turkish Relations; A.Kazamias Turkey’s Quest for EU Membership and the Cyprus Problem; T.Bahcheli Security Implications of Turkey’s March toward EU Membership; M.Kibaroglu The US and Turkey’s Quest for EU Membership; O.Taspinar The Iraq War and the Troubled US-Turkish Alliance: Some Conclusions for Europe; O.Kayhan & D.Lindley
Circa l’autore
TOZUN BAHCHELI Professor of Political Science, King’s University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada ELIF ERSIN Involved in Research Projects on EU-Turkish relations MICHAEL M. GUNTER Professor of Political Science, Tennessee Technological University, USA OZLEM KAYHAN Ph D Candidate, University of Notre Dame, USA DAN LINDLEY Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, USA ALEXANDER KAZAMIAS Senior Lecturer in Politics, Coventry University, UK MUSTAFA KIBAROGLU Associate Professor of International Relations, Bilkent University, Istanbul SPYRIDON KOTSOVILIS Ph D Candidate in Political Science, Mc Gill University, Canada NEOPHYTOS G. LOIZIDES Lecturer, Department of Politics and the Hellenic Studies Program at Princeton University, USA OMER TASPINAR Director of the Turkey Program, Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe, and Adjunct Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA NATHALIE TOCCI Marie Curie Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy MEHMET UGUR Jean Monnet Reader in European Political Economy, University of Greenwich Business School, UK WENDY WEBER Visiting Instructor, Macalester College, Minnesota, USA