Turkey and EU/rope
Discourses of Inspiration/Anxiety in Turkey’s Foreign Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12968686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pinar Bilgin (0000-0002-7326-8329, Bilkent University, corresponding author), Ali Bilgic (0000-0002-5593-894X, Bilkent University) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of European Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1918-7173 • E-ISSN: 1918-7181 |
| Publisher | Canadian Center of Science and Education (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5539/res.v4n3p111 |
| OpenAlex | W2159284271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 21 |
The literature on Turkey-European Economic Community/Union (EEC/EU) relations scrutinises how various EEC/EU actors vacillate on Turkey’s accession to European integration contingent upon their image/s of Turkey. Turkey’s own wavering vis-à-vis EEC/EU, however, is almost always explained with reference to its domestic dynamics (political and economic ups and downs) but not Turkey’s policy-makers’ image/s of the European Community/Union. What often goes unacknowledged is that throughout the history of Turkey-EEC/EU relations, Turkey’s policy-makers’ discourses have oscillated between representing EU/rope as a source of inspiration and a source of anxiety. Contra those readings of Turkey’s relations with EU/rope as revolving around the dichotomy of ‘Turkey being European/not’, our analysis of Turkey’s policy-makers’ discourses on EEC/EU at key moments of the relationship during 1959-2004 shows that Turkey’s policy-makers’ representations of EU/rope are structured around three binaries that give away a persistent ambivalence vis-à-vis EU/rope as a source of and a solution to Turkey’s insecurities. Such ambivalence, in turn, is not uncharacteristic of post-colonial encounters
Accession · Ambivalence · Economics · Economy · European union · Foreign policy · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |