1st Edition

Turkey and the EU: An Awkward Candidate for EU Membership? An Awkward Candidate for EU Membership?

By Harun Arikan Copyright 2003
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

512 Pages
by Routledge

This book was published in 2003.The book presents an analysis of the development of the European Union's policy towards Turkey from a comparative perspective and compares the EU's approach to the issues in the EU-Turkey relationship. However, the literature on EU-Turkey relations is excessively rigid, antiquated and opinionated, reflecting the stylized version of the official approaches to issues... Read more
List of Tables, Preface, Acknowledgments, List of Abbreviations, Contents, 1. Introduction: An Alternative Approach to Traditional Perspectives of EU-Turkish Relations, 2. Conceptualizing the EU's Enlargement Policy: Motivations, Conditions and Instruments for the EU's Enlargement Policy, 3. The EU-Turkey Association: A Flawed Instrument?, 4. Economic Instruments ofthe EU's Policy for Turkey in a Comparative Perspective with the CEECs, 5. The Political Aspects ofthe EU's Policy Towards Turkey in the Context of a New European Political Order, 6. The Greek Factor: The Ultirnate Obstacle to Turkish Membership?, 7. Security Aspects of the EU's Relations with Turkey, 8. Conclusions, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Arikan, Harun