The Influence of the European Union on Turkish Foreign Policy
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In this regard, the writer could have been benefitted from advantages of quantitative analysis for the justification of her findings. Part one of the book named as Europeanisation of political actors presents an actor-based analysis regarding the Europeanisation of foreign policy.
Nevertheless, it should be known that Europeanisation of the political parties is a contested term since the EU does not envisage a political party system or organizational process to be adopted. It only provides an ideational Europeanisation.
In its election campaign in , CHP is evaluated indecisive on the EU issue as a continuation of the modernization project or as a Western plot to destabilize the country and to send it away from its interests in Cyprus. In the following chapter, the Europeanisation performance of Turkish governments since is examined as well as a comparison of government programs with the party programs. Terzi evaluates the conclusion of European Council decision as well as crisis with the US in as the reason of a stalemate in the Europeanisation process and a shift of axis towards the enhancement of relations with the Middle East.
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According to Terzi, there are five important developments in the Turkish foreign policy that shows its Europeanisation after The chapter on the transformation of security policy and the military on foreign policy is an important section of the book since the most remarkable and appreciated Europeanisation has been recorded in the military sphere whose power was transferred to the civilian institutions. The writer analyzes this transformation in two levels.
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On the first level, she refers to the exclusion of Turkey from the ESDP European Security and Defense Policy decisions until the candidacy in , which limited the effects of socialization and identity formation aspects of the new security community. On the second level, she mentions about the harmonization packages since on the role and composition of the National Security Council NSC in order to comply with the Copenhagen political criteria.
As the writer pointed out as an example of the Europeanisation process, these packages have provided the civilian empowerment over military. Part two based on an issue-focus analysis regarding the Europeanisation of foreign policy in different problematic issues begins with the examination of the troubled relations of Turkey with Greece, Armenia and Cyprus.
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Without being lost in details, she briefly describes the causes and effects for each political gridlock. In the following chapter of the part, the relations with the Middle Eastern countries are discussed.
She states that there is a shift in the axis of Turkish foreign policy away from Europeanisation and towards Middle Easternisation as it was mentioned before. In this regard, the writer is good at presenting this grave contradiction of Turkey which both moves away from the EU and follows a Europeanized foreign policy to the Middle Eastern countries. The last chapter of the part scrutinizes the future of Turkish foreign policy between the US and the EU after touching upon the negative effects of the European Council and Iraq crisis4 as well as the different definition of terrorism and a Congressional resolution on the Armenian genocide supported by the Democratic leadership in Congress in the US pp.
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In other words, she gives priority to the European influences on the Turkish foreign policy. In the conclusion of the book, Terzi summarizes how the transformation process of the Turkish foreign policy has functioned. It provides a convincing account of the impact of the prospect of EU membership in Ankara, not least in promoting a 'transformation' in Turkey's self-identity. Part I Europeanisation of Political Actors: The difficult process of Europeanisation of Turkish political parties and their foreign policy positions; Europeanisation of Turkish governments since ; The transformation of security policy and the influence of the military on foreign policy; The empowerment of civil society organisations in Turkish foreign policy.
EU candidacy and Turkey's historically troubled relationship with two neighbours: Greece and Armenia; Cyprus problem: Europeanisation or Middle Easternisation?
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