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Informationen zum Autor Bülent Temel is a political economist who teaches and conducts research at Atilim University and Southern New Hampshire University. He has worked as a financier in corporate America for eight years before joining academia, and received several recognitions including the 2007 Edward Jones Outstanding Performance Award. Author or coauthor of 18 publications in the fields of political economics, international relations and cooperatism, Temel is an editorial board member at the International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies based in Zurich, Switzerland. Klappentext For over half a century, European Union has been a promising endeavor of cooperative institutionalism. It has shown that even nation states with a long history of conflict are capable of collaborating with one another to serve their own interests. However, the EU project has also made visible that there is no one-size-fits-all policy in economics that can be applied to all countries with success. Economics starts and ends with the society. Common culture determines the outcomes of economic policies, and ordinary people pick up the bill when policies turn out to be failures. This book presents two different tales of the European Union to provide an empirical challenge to oversimplified assumptions behind the neoliberal orthodoxy in policymaking: Favorable experience of the EU-candidate Turkey, and the regrettable venture of the EU-member Greece. The fact that these two neighboring countries with similar cultures have had vastly different experiences with the European Union suggests that the EU functions as a catalyst of change in the countries that associate with it, but this impact could be negative as well as positive depending on the role the EU plays. Political economist Bülent Temel presents a lucid analysis of the Turkish and Greek encounters with the EU-based on contributions from a diverse range of social sciences; economics, game theory, finance, political science and sociology. Zusammenfassung This book examines the ways by which the European Union impacts economic and political processes in its member and candidate countries. Positive Turkish and negative Greek experiences suggest that the EU functions as a powerful catalyst of political and economic change! if towards various ends. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Greece and the Eurozone: Staying or Leaving?Panagiotis E. Petrakis Chapter 2: Euro and the Economic Crisis in GreeceBasil DalamagasChapter 3: Doomed to Failure: The EU's Role in the Greek Debt Crisis George DourakisChapter 4: Effects of Economic and Monetary Union on the Greek Political System: Dimensions of the Current CrisisChristoforos Vernardakis and Bülent TemelChapter 5: Greece and the European Union: Neoliberalism and its DiscontentsGrigoris ZarotiadisChapter 6: Acrobats on a Rope: Greek Society between Contemporary European Demands and Archaic Cultural Reflexes Panayis Panagiotopoulos and Vassilis VamvakasChapter 7: Regularizing the Unregulated? European Union's Role in the Immigration Problem in GreeceChristina Akrivopoulou and Bülent TemelChapter 8: European Union Fervor in Turkey: Foreign Policy as a Domestic Political ApparatusErsin KalayciogluChapter 9: Alignment of Turkish Securities Market Legislation with the EU Acquis: Does EU Membership Offer Additional Benefits?Aylin Ege and Gül Ertan IlalChapter 10: Turkey's EU Accession ProspectsSerdar S. GünerChapter 11: Political Stability and Economic Expansion: Turkey Before and After the EU Candidacy Demet Yalçin MousseauChapter 12: Turkey's Kurdish Conflict: The EU Candidacy and the Prospects for ReconciliationHayriye ÖzenChapter 13: Trajectory of Corruption in Turkey's EU VentureIlhami Alkan OlssonChapter 14: Cognitive vs. Emotional Evaluations as the Foundations of Public Perception of the EU in TurkeyCengiz Erisen and Elif ErisenChapter 15: T...
