The Europeanization of national foreign policy: explaining Greek support for Turkey’s EU accession

Agnantopoulos, Apostolos

doi:10.1080/14683857.2013.773173

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“…Turkey's EU membership became the focal point of bilateral cooperation. Greece, which had persistently vetoed any advances in relations between Turkey and the EU in the past, became the most ardent supporter of Turkey's EU membership in the 2000s (Agnantopoulos 2013). The two states also successfully managed to isolate their bilateral relations as much as possible from the ups and downs experienced in the Cyprus problem following the rejection of the Annan plan by the Greek Cypriots in 2004.…”

Section: Recognition and Identity Backlash In Turkeymentioning

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Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: insights from Israel and Turkey

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Rumelili

2021

Third World Quarterly

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While an extensive part of the conflict transformation literature stresses the importance of transforming the identities of conflict parties through recognition, it fails to recognise the propensity of such transformations to generate ontological insecurity and dissonance, and consequently a possible backlash towards antagonistic identities. Drawing on agonistic thought, we develop a conception of agonistic recognition, premised on non-finalism, pluralist multilogue and disaggregated recognition. We suggest that these elements of agonistic recognition may guard against the development of ontological insecurity and dissonance in recognition processes. We comparatively analyse the connections and tensions between recognition, ontological insecurity/ dissonance and identity backlash experienced during the transformation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the context of the Oslo Peace Process in the 1990s and Turkey's 'rapprochement' with Greece in the context of its EU accession process in the 2000s. We also assess the presence of the elements of agonistic recognition in these two conflict transformation processes. Our contribution constitutes an important step towards the specification of agonistic peace in terms of its underlying recognition processes and in developing the empirical study of agonistic elements in actual conflict transformation processes.

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Section: Recognition and Identity Backlash In Turkeymentioning

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Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: insights from Israel and Turkey

Strömbom

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2021

Third World Quarterly

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“…16 As such, according to Apostolos Agnantopoulos, for Greece, the Europeanization of its foreign policy has meant the synthesis of the use of the mechanisms of Europeanization and a shift from negative conditionality towards positive conditionality, in particular, with regard Turkey's EU accession process. 17 This new approach brought together, from a Greek standpoint, three interrelated perspectives in support of Turkey's EU bid:…”

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Ulusal Çıkar Savunmasında Yunan Dış Politikası: İstisnacılık ve Bütünleşme arasında Bocalama

Triantaphyllou

2018

Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi

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This paper aims to explain how crisis-ridden Greece defines and defends its national interest. The constellation of the twin economic and migration crises coupled with the increasingly transactional nature of the global order have forced Greece's hand in sticking to its guns with regard to its membership in both NATO and the European Union. While deterrence vis-à-vis Turkey remains a high priority, Greece has had to labour to regain its status and credibility within both aforementioned organizations by evolving away from its traditional policy of balancing between its membership obligations in NATO and the EU and its more nuanced approach to relations with Russia in contrast to many other countries. This has been done with the consensual adoption across the mainstream political spectrum of a policy of strategic realism which sees a distancing from the Euro-Atlantic context as an anathema, albeit the persistence of the reflex of exceptionalism and ethno-centrism. Its flank state status and the danger of further marginalization at a time of a changing Turkey have forced its hand while also presenting opportunities for the adoption of a renewed positive agenda with its neighbours.

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Still focused on the Atlantic: accounting for the limited Europeanization of Portuguese security policy

Robinson

2015

European Security

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The Europeanization of national foreign policy: explaining Greek support for Turkey’s EU accession

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: insights from Israel and Turkey

Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: insights from Israel and Turkey

Ulusal Çıkar Savunmasında Yunan Dış Politikası: İstisnacılık ve Bütünleşme arasında Bocalama

Still focused on the Atlantic: accounting for the limited Europeanization of Portuguese security policy

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