The Use of Conditionality in Support of Political, Economic and Social Rights: Unveiling the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership's True Hierarchy of Objectives?

Schmid, Dorothée

doi:10.1080/1362939042000259942

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“…To extend EU norms and values to candidate countries during the accession process, the Commission customarily implies, expects, and at times demands that candidate country representatives gradually become part of this working environment and adapt to its norms and forms. In this regard, common interest formation can be a corresponding process to socialization at the EU level, brought by the EU's specific engagement with candidate countries, which is more pedagogical than collegial in nature (Bellier 2004;Schmid 2004;Teivainen 2009). What follows is a thick account of bureaucratic management of the negotiations of terms and conditions of the Turkey-EU partnership in customs and other associated areas, which reveals the political and cultural imagination of joint futures by both parties-or the conditions that produce their absence.…”

Section: Short-range Passes On a Narrow Field: Bureaucratic Encountermentioning

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Failed promises: economic integration, bureaucratic encounters, and the EU-Turkey Customs Union

Fırat

2012

Dialect Anthropol

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European integration is based upon the promise to bring prosperity by creating economic and social equilibrium among member states and its regions via integrationist policies jointly managed by states and the institutions of the EU. As one common market initiative for greater economic integration in the wider region, goods circulate without tariff and customs duty barriers in the EU's common customs area. Turkey, not an EU member, has been in this common market since 1996. The EU-Turkey Customs Union, which promised to bring deeper economic and political integration through eventual Turkish membership, represents Turkey's aspirations to move from the periphery of Europe into its core. As an anthropological contribution to investigations of advanced European capitalism, this paper examines fundamental conflicts of interest between the EU and Turkey and locates them in their unequal power relations and in the disjuncture of each side's overall objectives from economic integration. Most importantly, it shows that these interest conflicts have ramifications at the individual bureaucratic level and in daily bureaucratic practice. Dramatic expressions of Turkish state power, which are initially geared toward balancing out power inequities, exacerbate Turkish and EU officials' failures to maintain at least a facade of mutually sustainable interests. Interpreted by EU officials as Turkish bureaucratic inertia, such disintegration of interests has implications for ongoing economic integration and membership negotiations between the two parties, with Turkish officials experiencing loss of control. The paper calls for a critical political economy that pays due attention to the cultural settings in which the former is embedded.

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Section: Short-range Passes On a Narrow Field: Bureaucratic Encountermentioning

confidence: 99%

Failed promises: economic integration, bureaucratic encounters, and the EU-Turkey Customs Union

Fırat

2012

Dialect Anthropol

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“…Gender equality policies are packaged within this conditionality in the current context of EU integration and Europeanization. Candidate countries are expected to comply with this conditionality in order to be considered for EU membership (Schmid 2004;Williams 2004).…”

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Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks

Roman-Odio¹,

Sierra²

2011

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“…] [thus] implicitly renounce[ing] an ideal of social harmonization, with common health and labour standards'. 109 'Favour[ing] a bluntly neoliberal pattern of development', the European political elite has pressured the Turkish government to introduce greater market 'flexibility', resulting in the enlargement of the temporary employment sector from 5 per cent of the workforce in 1985 to 12 per cent in 2007. 110 This seriously undermined professional morale and helped to force down real-term public sector wages levels by 70 per cent between 1978 and 1997 (despite a growth in capital inflows from around $93 million to $4,100 million over the same period) and then by a further 13 per cent between 1997 and 2003.…”

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Turkey and Europe: culture, capital and corruption

Jacoby

2010

Rev. Int. Stud.

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This article argues that current discourses on Turkish corruption are marked by a disproportionate emphasis on culture and can thus be understood as part of a broader relationship with Europe's perennial ‘other’. Having traced elements of this within European political elites' response to Turkey's prospective accession to the Union, the article goes on to suggest that the association of corruption with a different cultural orientation represents a useful means of legitimising the extraneous guidance of administrative and economic change. The ultimate aim of such reforms are, the article concludes, to extend the penetrative capacity of European capital, to reduce the transaction costs involved in acquiring Turkish assets and to disable domestic resistance to further marketisation.

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The Use of Conditionality in Support of Political, Economic and Social Rights: Unveiling the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership's True Hierarchy of Objectives?

Cited by 11 publications

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Failed promises: economic integration, bureaucratic encounters, and the EU-Turkey Customs Union

Failed promises: economic integration, bureaucratic encounters, and the EU-Turkey Customs Union

Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks

Turkey and Europe: culture, capital and corruption

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