Table Of ContentEUROPE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
EUROPEANIZATION IN
A GLOBAL CONTEXT
Integrating Turkey into the World Polity
Didem Buhari Gulmez
Europe in a Global Context
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of debates in relation to this question. Th ese are consistently based on
the agreement that it limits the analysis of Europe if we ‘exotize’ it by
restricting it to itself. Consequently, Europe and its manifold aspects are
contextualized and systematically linked to reference points in the global
world or to the concept of globalization. Th is also means that ‘globaliza-
tion’ loses much of the vagueness that it is often accompanied by, as it
is repeatedlyconceptualized and applied in relation to Europe. Th e series
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Didem B uhari G ulmez
Europeanization in a
Global Context
Integrating Turkey into the World Polity
Didem Buhari Gulmez
İstanbul Kemerburgaz University
Istanbul , Turkey
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DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95059-1
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In memory of my mentor, Professor Chris Rumford
Acknowledgements
Th is book is dedicated to my parents, Meryem and Ahmet Buhari, my niece
Hale and my partner and colleague Dr Seçkin Barış Gülmez, all of whom
have unconditionally supported my research. Without the emotional support
of my family-in-law—Filiz, Mehmet, Haluk, Şadıman, Mert Efe Gülmez
and Deniz Demir—and my ‘Godmother’ Gülsen Oral, I do not believe I
could have been successful in this endeavour. Nor would this study have been
possible without the academic support of Professor Chris Rumford who has
enlightened my path with his wise and meticulous supervision during my
doctoral research. I cannot express my gratitude enough for the generous sup-
port of Professor Barrie Axford who helped me better grasp the interactions
between European and global complexities. I am also very grateful to Professor
Roland Robertson, a pioneer in globalization studies who, with his partner
Judith, has always extended valuable support and motivated me to adopt an
approach bridging sociology, politics and international relations in the con-
text of globalization. I have been fortunate to have made the acquaintance of
Professor John W. Meyer (the founder of World Polity School), Professor Gili
Drori, Professor John Boli, Professor George Th omas and Professor Mathias
Albert, whose ideas and feedback have been a great source of inspiration for
my research. I am also happy that I have had the privilege of working with
Professor Alper Kaliber and Esra Kaliber at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University.
Last but not least, I owe special and warm thanks to Professor Anne Sophie
Krossa, who encouraged me to write this book and share my fi ndings with the
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curious readers of European, global and Turkish studies. I am also grateful to
Amelia Derkatsch for her kind and helpful assistance during the preparation
of this manuscript.
Th is book is a product of a decade-long doctoral research and some of
the ideas shared in the book have been previously presented at interna-
tional conferences—EUSA, UACES, PSA, among others—and published
by a number of academic journals such as the J ournal of Contemporary
European Studies , Southeast European and Black Sea Studies , New Global
Studies and the E USA Review . I thank the editorial teams of the journals
and the organizing committees of the conferences for allowing me to dis-
seminate my research. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are largely based on the
articles below, respectively:
Gulmez, D. B. (2009). Turkey-EU relations: Th e limitations of
Europeanisation studies. T urkish Yearbook of International Relations ,
40 (1), 91–121.
G ulmez, D. B. (2010). Stanford school on sociological institution-
alism: A global cultural approach. International Political Sociology , 4 ,
253–270 (© Oxford University Press).
I also benefi ted from some fi ndings that were originally published in:
G ulmez, D. B. (2012). Europeanization of foreign policy and world
culture: Turkey’s Cyprus policy. S outheast European and Black Sea Studies ,
12 (1), 81–95.
Gulmez, D. B. (2011). Ombudsmanship and Turkey’s Europeanization
in world society. J ournal of Contemporary European Studies , 1 9 (4),
475–487 (reprinted by Routledge in 2013).
Gulmez, D. B. (2016). Th e European Union as a ‘heuristic device’:
Ritualized Europeanization in Turkey. C omparative European Politics ,
14 (4), 458–476.
Contents
1 Introduction: Locating the Missing Link: From European
to Global and Back Again 1
Part 1 Opening Pandora’s Box: Europeanizations in Plural 13
2 From Europe to Europeanization: A Bridge Too Far? 15
3 Transcending Strategic Consequentiality Versus Normative
Appropriateness 37
4 Introducing Ritualized Europeanization 61
Part 2 Europeanization a lla Turca : Expanding Rights and Rites 77
5 Reform and Resistance in Turkey: A Case s ui generis ? 79
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6 Democracy and Good Governance in Turkey:
Europeanization as a Gateway 9 1
7 Turkey’s Cyprus Dilemma: Europeanization as a
Gatekeeper 1 19
8 Foreigner Rights in Turkey: From Sèvres Syndrome
to Decoupled Europeanization 1 41
9 Conclusion: Th e Promise of Ritualized Rationality 1 67
Appendix: Institutional Affi liations of Anonymous Survey
Participants 1 93
Bibliography 197
Index 231
