Diplomacy and Lobbying During Turkeys Europeanisation - The Private Life of Politics

This book presents intricate, backstage negotiations of interests and compromises between diplomats and lobbyists through the corridors of power, which drove Turkey both closer to and farther apart from the EU.

List of contents

List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Inside the private life of politics
1 The elephant in the room
2 Fieldwork among the no(ta)bles
Part II: Framing EU membership
3 The accession pedagogy
Part III: Arts of diplomacy and lobbying in the EU institutions
4 Enlargement, twice a week
5 Dramas of statecraft, mistrust and the politics of non-membership
6 Political documents and bureaucratic entrepreneurs
Conclusion: lessons from an anti-case
References
Index

About the author

Bilge Firat is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Texas at El Paso

Summary

This book presents intricate, backstage negotiations of interests and compromises between diplomats and lobbyists through the corridors of power, which drove Turkey both closer to and farther apart from the EU. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Firat Bilge, Firat Bilge Bilge, Bilge Firat
• Assisted by: Rod Rhodes (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781526133625
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3362-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Political Ethnography
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Türkei, Internationale Institutionen, Interessengruppen, Protestbewegungen und gewaltfreie Aktionen, EU, Europäische Union