Turkey's accession to the European Union : political and economic challenges / edited by Belgin Akçay and Bahri Yilmaz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Although Turkey has a long-held aspiration for European Union membership and has been a candidate for more than a decade, relations between the EU and Turkey have not received the attention it deserves from non-Turkish researchers thus far, and consequently the international literature on EU-Turkey relations is rather limited. In light of recent global economic and political challenges for the EU and Turkey, a need has emerged for an interdisciplinary approach to study EU-Turkey relations within the wider international political and economic context. [This book] provides a timely overview of some of the most important issues and debates in the changing context of Europe, the change in domestic politics and foreign policy in Turkey, and the likely implications of these changes and developments for EU-Turkey relations. Within this framework, this collection includes articles emphasizing Turkey's reform process with a view to EU accession, despite EU's reservations about "absorbing" Turkey and the eventual decoupling of the Turkish reform process from European integration, as well as searching for alternative forms of cooperation or transitional arrangements which may be possible for Turkey at the time of accession."--Provided by publisher.

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Preface; Introduction; I: A General Outlook on Turkey-EU Relations; Chapter One: Turkey-EU Relations from the 1960s to 2012; Chapter Two: Europeanization of Turkish Politics and Policies; Chapter Three: The Credibility of EU Human Rights Conditionality; II: Economic Relations: Win-Win Process; Chapter Four: Turkey's Accession to the European Union; Chapter Five: Constraints Regarding Turkey's Economic Integration into the European Union; Chapter Six: Dynamics of the European Union's Trade Strategy and Its Imperatives on Turkish Trade Policy

Chapter Seven: EU Accession and Central Bank Reform in TurkeyChapter Eight: Turkish Agriculture in Case of EU Membership or Nonmember Status; Chapter Nine: Turkey's External Economic Relations; III: Foreign Policy of Turkey: Looking West and Going East; Chapter Ten: Turkey's Recent Foreign Policy Activism in Its Neighborhood versus Its EU Membership Goal; Chapter Eleven: EU Candidacy and Turkey's Foreign Policy toward the Middle East; Chapter Twelve: Europeanization's Time Constraint; Chapter Thirteen: Incomplete Peace

Chapter Fourteen: The Future of the European Integration Process and TurkeyIndex; About the Contributors

English.

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