1st Edition
Turkey and EU Integration Achievements and Obstacles
Chapter 1: Association Relationship with Full Membership Perspective: the Ongoing Significance of the Ankara Agreement
Chapter 2: The Customs Union as the Basis of EU Association: An Appropriate Device for Accession?
Chapter 3: Turkey as a Candidate to Join the EU: Turning Point in Turkey-EU Relations and its Aftermath
Chapter 4: Transformation of Turkish Democracy Through EU Conditionality: Achievements and Limits
Chapter 5: Cyprus Issue: A Permanent Obstacle to Turkey’s Accession?
Chapter 6: The EU’s Integration Capacity: An Escape Clause for the EU or the Actual Impediment to Turkey’s Accession?
Chapter 7: Readmission and Visa Liberalization: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Conclusion
Biography
Yonca Özer is an associate professor in international relations and lecturer at the European Union Institute of the Marmara University in Istanbul. Her research interests comprise Turkey-EU relations, democratization, EU’s external relations and international political economy. She has participated in many international conferences in international relations and is the author of papers and articles on Turkey-EU relations.
Çigdem Nas is an associate professor in international relations and lecturer at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul. She also contributes to a non-governmental research organization called the Economic Development Foundation (IKV) specialized on EU studies. Her research interests comprise Turkey-EU relations, foreign policy, democratization, minorities, identity in international relations, migration and EU foreign policy. She has written articles on Turkey-EU relations and Turkish foreign policy.
