Turkey and the European Union: Internal Dynamics and External Challenges

293 Pages·2006·1.321 MB·English

by  Joseph S. Joseph (eds.)

Turkey and the European Union
Also by Joseph S. Joseph
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Threshold of the European Union
Turkey and
the European Union
Internal Dynamics and
External Challenges
Edited by
Joseph S. Joseph
Associate Professor of International Relations and European Affairs
Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign and Security Policy
University of Cyprus
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For Eleni and our daughters, Lina and Savina,
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Contents
List of Tables ix
Preface x
Notes on the Contributors xiii
List of Abbreviations xviii
Chronology xx
1 Introduction: Turkey at the Threshold of the European Union 1
Joseph S. Joseph
2 The Economic Dimension of Turkey’s EU Membership:
A Stock-Taking Exercise at the Start of Accession Negotiations 16
Mehmet Ugur
3 Between Fedora and Fez: Modern Turkeys’s Troubled
Road to Democratic Consolidation and the Pluralizing
Role of Erdokan’s Pro-Islam Government 42
Spyridon Kotsovilis
4 The EU Challenge: A View from the Turkish Grand
National Assembly 71
Neophytos G. Loizides and Elif Ersin
5 Relations Between the State and Civil Society in Turkey:
Does the EU Make a Difference? 83
Wendy Weber
6 The Kurdish Problem in International Politics 96
Michael M. Gunter
7 The Europeanization of Turkey’s Kurdish Question 122
Nathalie Tocci
8 The Greek Variable in EU–Turkish Relations 138
Alexander Kazamias
9 Turkey’s Quest for EU Membership and the Cyprus Problem 161
Tozun Bahcheli
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10 Security Implications of Turkey’s March Towards
EU Membership 178
Mustafa Kibaroglu
11 The US and Turkey’s Quest for EU Membership 191
Omer Taspinar
12 The Iraq War and the Troubled US–Turkish Alliance:
Some Conclusions for Europe 211
Ozlem Kayhan and Dan Lindley
Bibliography 233
Index 240
List of Tables
2.1 Impact of EU membership on sectorol profits 21
2.2 Declining growth rates and increasing volatility in Turkey:
decade averages 23
2.3 Indicators of income inequality: Gini index 28
2.4 Agricultural enterprise size in Turkey 30
12.1 Strategic overview of some major players in the
Middle East 215
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