Turkey, the EU and the Middle East
Foreign Policy Cooperation and the Arab Uprisings
- 184 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book focuses on the dynamics of Turkey's relationship with Europe in the context of the 'Arab Spring' and analyses Turkish behaviour vis-à-vis foreign policy cooperation with the EU.
Süsler explains the complexity of Turkey-EU relations by looking beyond membership negotiations and examines informal foreign policy dialogue between Turkish and EU officials. The book discusses the reactions of the Turkish government to the uprisings in Libya, Syria, and Egypt and cooperative opportunities between Turkey and the EU. The analysis finds that although cooperation varies across cases, foreign policy dialogue has become a main driver of the Turkey-EU relationship. A counter-intuitive finding of the research is that the EU has often been the actor seeking Turkey's cooperation, rather than the other way round, clearly challenging the original power asymmetry between Turkey and the EU.
Based on interviews with diplomats and policy makers and extensive documentary research, this book will be of interest to political scientists, students, policy makers and researchers focusing on Turkish foreign policy and Turkey-EU relations. This book is also about exploring inventive ways of maintaining a complex working partnership with the EU and will be of interest to scholars working on the EU's relationship with "outsiders".
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Explaining Turkey’s cooperation with the European Union
- 3 Institutional framework for foreign policy dialogue between Turkey and the EU
- 4 Turkey’s foreign policy cooperation with the EU during the Egyptian uprising of 2011
- 5 Turkey’s foreign policy cooperation with the EU during the Libyan Civil War of 2011
- 6 Turkey’s foreign policy cooperation with the EU during the Syrian uprising
- 7 Turkey’s foreign policy cooperation with the EU in post-uprising Egypt
- 8 Conclusion
- Appendix: list of interviews
- Index