1st Edition

New Perspectives on Turkey-EU Relations

Edited By Chris Rumford Copyright 2013
104 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

This book makes the case for looking afresh at Turkey-EU relations in order to appreciate the richness and complexity of a relationship which is now more than 50 years old and is still not close to reaching fulfilment. The contributors challenge conventional attempts to understand Turkey-EU relations, revealing that EU integration studies has been rather poor at understanding the global context... Read more

1. Editorial: New Perspectives on Turkey – EU Relations  2. Constructing Turkey Inc.: The Discursive Anatomy of a Domestic and Foreign Policy Agenda  3. Ombudsmanship and Turkey’s Europeanization in ‘World Society’  4. Resisting Anamnesis: A Nietzschean Analysis of Turkey’s National History Education  5. A Bakhtinian Approach to EU – Turkey Relations  6. Turkey’s Path to EU Membership: An Historical Institutionalist Perspective  7. Kurdish Transnational Politics and Turkey’s Changing Kurdish Policy: The Journey of Kurdish Broadcasting from Europe to Turkey  8. The Post-westernisation of EU – Turkey Relations

Biography

Chris Rumford is Professor of Political Sociology and Global Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London where he is also Director of the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. His research interests include Turkey-EU relations, Europe’s shifting borders, globalization theory, cosmopolitanism, and the politics of cricket.