Discourse, Identity and the Question of Turkish Accession to the EU
Discourse, Identity and the Question of Turkish Accession to the EU

Author: Catherine MacMillan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1317149831

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Discourse, Identity and the Question of Turkish Accession to the EU: Through the Looking Glass provides an invaluable analysis of the issues of Turkish accession to the EU. The focus on elite discourse provides a new and engaging approach to this contentious topic and offers a unique understanding of the competing arguments within the EU regarding the question of Turkey’s accession and the differing visions for the European Union that underlie them. Utilising the Habermasian Theory of Communicative Action Catherine MacMillan focuses on how political elites from the member states and EU institutions engage with the issue, analyses the different attitudes to the Turkish candidacy to the EU and explores the wider implications and competing visions of the EU the differences highlight. By closely examining the different ways that EU elites view and react to this issue vital lessons about the potential wider enlargement of the union to central and eastern Europe can be drawn.

Contemporary Perspectives on Turkey’s EU Accession Process
Contemporary Perspectives on Turkey’s EU Accession Process

Author: Catherine MacMillan

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-10-19

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1527520072

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Despite having made its first application for EEC membership in 1959, Turkey’s bid to join the EU remains as controversial as ever, with Turkey and EU relations arguably at an all–time low in the aftermath of the attempted coup d’état of July 2016. In this context, the essays here, while using (de)Europeanisation as a broad theoretical framework, explore the current state of Turkey’s EU accession bid from a variety of perspectives, including discourse analysis, Euroscepticism and institutionalist approaches. The essays focus not only on discursive and policy (de)Europeanisation within Turkey, but also examine both official EU and European right–wing Eurosceptic discourse on Turkish accession, as well as approaching the Turkish accession process through comparisons with the contemporary Western Balkan countries and with post–war Germany.

Turkey and the European Union
Turkey and the European Union

Author: Selcen Öner

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2011-02-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780739148594

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European identity has always been in a state of construction. With the creation of the European Union, however, this construction now takes place within an institutional framework, introducing a number of new variables. Selcen Öner's Turkey and the European Union: The Question of European Identity is an in-depth analysis of the influence of these two entities on each others' identity as Europeans in a society of increasing social, political, and cultural connectedness. The mutual influence betweenTurks and Europeans gained significant momentum in 1999, when the European Union granted official candidate status to Turkey at that year's Helsinki Summit. Turkey's Europeanness is still being debated, despite the official stance that fulfilling the Copenhagen criteria and adopting the EU acquis are enough for being a full member of the EU. These debates have even lead to arguments between political elites of the European Union about their "privileged partnership" with Turkey. When comparing the attitudes of the European Union towards Turkey versus those towards Central and Eastern Europe, one could argue that that "return to Europe" discourse has accelerated the membership of the latter, but not the former. Currently Turkey is neither considered an "other," nor a member of the "family." Rather, Turkey is commonly relegated to the role of "crucial neighbor" or "strategic partner" by the political elites of the EU. Öner's study analyzes a series of interviews conducted with several members of the European Parliament and sheds serious light on the fact that discussions on Turkey's membership in terms of her Europeanness reveal countless ambiguities in defining European identity. It is clear that there is no common understanding or definition of Europeanidentity, even amongst political leaders in the EU who challenge Turkey's authenticity as a member of European society. Thus, Selcen Öner's Turkey and the European Union: The Question of European Identity argues that the position of Turkey vis-à-vis the European Union will set a compelling benchmark for European identity construction in the future.

EU-Turkey Relations
EU-Turkey Relations

Author: Wulf Reiners

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 303070890X

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This open access book explores the new complexities and ambiguities that epitomize EU-Turkey relations. With a strong focus on the developments in the last decade, the book provides full access to a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted relationship through three entry points: (1) Theories and Concepts, (2) Institutions, and (3) Policies. Part I brings together complementary and competing analytical approaches to study the evolution of EU-Turkey relations, ranging from traditional integration theories to novel concepts. Part II investigates the institutional machinery of EU-Turkey relations by analyzing the roles and perspectives of the European Council, the European Commission, and the European Parliament. Part III offers analyses of the policies most relevant for the relationship: enlargement policy, trade and macroeconomic policies, foreign and security policy, migration and asylum policies, and energy policy. In Part IV, the volume closes with a systematic survey of the conditions under which cooperative trends in EU-Turkey relations could be (re)invigorated. The systematic setup and the balanced combination of distinguished experts from EU- and Turkey-based institutions make this book a fundamental reading for students, researchers, lecturers, and practitioners of EU-Turkey relations, European integration and Turkish foreign policy. Wulf Reiners is Senior Researcher and Head of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Program of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). Ebru Turhan is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Turkish-German University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Turkey’s Accession to the European Union
Turkey’s Accession to the European Union

Author: Constantine Arvanitopoulos

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-12-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 3540881972

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European views on Turkey’s membership in the EU have been split between those in support of its full integration and those advocating a privileged partnership. To the extent that many of the latter proposals imply that Turkey will be partially integrated within Europe in certain areas, the question of Turkey’s accession is probably not about ‘if’, but about ‘how much’ integration there will be within the Union’s structures. The purpose of this book is not to offer a definitive response to this question. The book aims instead to examine the complexity of the issues pertaining to Turkey’s prospective EU membership by presenting several, often divergent, accounts of the political, security and socio-economic dimensions of the entire process. The book provides a forum for an exchange of views among distinguished scholars and researchers from different national backgrounds in order to contribute to the ongoing public discussion of Turkey’s accession. Sophisticated, informative and refreshing in its argumentation, the book provides an excellent overview of the complexities of Turkey’s accession to the EU membership. Professor Mustafa Aydin, TOBB University of Economics and Technology A refreshing view from the European periphery, an original mirror of the Union's central challenges. Professor Georges Prevelakis, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne

Representations and Othering in Discourse
Representations and Othering in Discourse

Author: Beyza Ç. Tekin

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2010-11-11

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9027287880

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This volume examines the construction of Turkey's possible European Union accession in French political discourse. In today's France, heated debates regarding Turkey's EU membership are turning into an essential part of European identity formation. Once again, the 'Turkish Other' functions as a mirror for defining not only the 'European Self', but also European values. By providing a genuine and multi-disciplinary approach for studying the Otherness attributed to Turkey, this book contributes to our understanding of the Self/Other nexus in International Relations. Within a Critical Discourse Analysis framework, this study explores the socio-historical basis of the construction of Turkey's Otherness in an attempt to identify the processes through which past memories, representations, images and fantasies regarding Turkey are inserted into the French social imaginary. Focusing on these significations, which are (re)produced and become manifest through language, this book strives to uncover the link between discourse and political action.

Debating Turkey in Europe
Debating Turkey in Europe

Author: Caner Tekin

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 3110614677

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In contemporary history, a much-debated issue has been whether European nations have a common identity and what relevance the European Union has for a shared definition of Europeanness. The present book examines the link between historical conceptions of Europe and the contestations over Turkey’s compatibility with the European Union during the 2000s.

The EU-German-Turkish Triangle
The EU-German-Turkish Triangle

Author: Funda Tekin

Publisher: Nomos Verlag

Published: 2022-11-11

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 3748924410

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Um eine solide Bewertung der Beziehungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei und ihrer Zukunftsaussichten zu ermöglichen, konzentriert sich dieser Band auf die Dreiecksbeziehung zwischen dem Block und der Türkei einerseits und den bilateralen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei andererseits. Auf der Grundlage des historischen Institutionalismus geht er von der Annahme aus, dass eine grundlegende Umstrukturierung der Beziehungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei "kritische Wendepunkte" erfordert, die einen "Paradigmenwechsel" nach sich ziehen. Es wird der politische Diskurs über die Beziehungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei dekonstruiert, um die wichtigsten Wahrnehmungen und Narrative der Beziehungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei nicht nur in Deutschland und der Türkei, sondern auch auf EU-Ebene in Brüssel zu identifizieren, zu analysieren und zu bewerten. Die analytischen Beiträge zielen auf die Beantwortung der allgemeinen Fragen ab, ob und zu welchem Zeitpunkt ein Paradigmenwechsel zu erkennen ist; wenn ja, was die treibenden Faktoren eines solchen Wechsels sind; und ob sich die Narrative der EU-Türkei-Beziehungen im Laufe der Zeit verändern. Mit Beiträgen von Esra Çengel, Atila Eralp, Denise Ersoy, Hanna-Lisa Hauge, Ebru Ece Özbey, Ardahan Özkan Gedikli, Moritz Rau, Anke Schönlau, Mirja Schröder, Nurdan Selay Bedir, Özgehan Şenyuva, Funda Tekin, Helena Weise und Wolfgang Wessels.

History and Belonging
History and Belonging

Author: Stefan Berger

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2018-06-13

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1785338811

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In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU’s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a project to ask: Could such an uncontested history of Europe ever exist? Combining studies of national politics, supranational institutions, and the fraught EU-Mideast periphery with a particular focus on the twentieth century, the contributors to History and Belonging offer a fascinating survey of the attempt to forge a post-national identity politics.

Turkey and the European Union
Turkey and the European Union

Author: Senem Aydin-Düzgit

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1137387327

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This book by two leading experts provides a comprehensive analysis of Turkey's relationship with the European Union, set in its regional and international context. It provides three analytical lenses through which the relationship might be understood – Turkey as an enlargement country, as an EU neighbour and as a global partner – and unpacks the implications of each. Turkey and the European Union focuses on the five pillars that help define the relationship: economics, migration, security, democracy and human rights, and culture and identity. It shows how the differing perspectives on Turkey's role can influence events and developments in these areas, and it traces the profound fluctuations in relations, from the Association Agreement of 1963, to the candidacy for full membership of 1999, to the limbo of today. Turkey continues to be a critically important country for the European Union. The relationship has consequences that are both ideational, embedded in history, politics, identity and culture, and material, relating to economics, energy and security. In examining this complex relationship, this book addresses a key issue for Europe's future, and does so in a fashion that is both sophisticated and accessible.