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Informationen zum Autor Belgin Akçay is a professor of economics in the Department of Economic Policy at Ankara University. Bahri Yilmaz is a professor of economics at Sabanci University. Klappentext 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. Turkey's Accession to the European Union: Political and Economic Challenges, edited by Belgin Akçay and Bahri Yilmaz, 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1. A General Outlook on Turkey-EU RelationsChapter 1. Turkey-EU Relations from the 1960s to 2010: A Critical Overview by Beken SaatçiogluChapter 2. Europeanization of Turkish Politics and Policies: Past, Present, and Future by Atila Eralp and Zerrin TorunChapter 3. The Credibility of EU Human Rights Conditionality: Turkey's Case by Zerrin SavasanPart 2. Economic Relations: Win-win ProcessChapter 4. Turkey's Accession to the European Union: Temporary and Permanent Derogations from the EU's Economic Acquis? by Ronald van Ooik and James H. MathisChapter 5. The Constraints in the Economic Integration of Turkey into the European Union by Belgin AkçayChapter 6. Dynamics of the European Union's Trade Strategy and Its Imperatives on Turkish Trade Policy Prospects for a Functioning Customs Union by M. Sait AkmanChapter 7. EU Accession and Central Bank Reform in Turkey by Aylin Ege and Erman AksütChapter 8. Turkish Agriculture in Case of the EU Membership or Non-Member Status by Gülcan EraktanChapter 9. Turkey's External Economic Relations: Does the MENA Region Steal the EU's Role? by Idil Bilgiç AlpaslanPart 3. Foreign Policy of Turkey: Looking West and Going EastChapter 10. Turkey's Recent Foreign Policy Activism in Its Neighborhood vs. Its EU Membership Goal: How Compliant Are Turkey's Regional Ambitions with EU Foreign Policy? by Ömer KarabagChapter 11. The EU Impact on Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East by Defne GünayChapter 12. Europeanization's Time Constraint: The Case of Cyprus by Kivanç UlusoyChapter 13. Incomplete Peace: Relations between Turkey and Greece by Bahri YilmazChapter 14. The Future of European Integration Process and Turkey by Sevilay Kahraman...
