Why Does Turkey Seek European Union Membership? A Historical Institutional Approach

Camyar, Isa; Tağma, Halit Mustafa Emin

doi:10.1080/14683849.2010.507104

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“…Most accounts of Turkey's membership bid argued that Turkish actors supported EU membership because it promised political and material gains, such as the empowerment of certain (political and societal) actors at the expense of other (military) actors (Ozcan 2009;Onis 2010) and an improved Turkish economy (Aydin 2003;Onis 2010), through access to the EU single-market, pre-accession funds and Foreign Direct Investment, or because historical processes had tied Turkish policymakers into domestic and foreign policies oriented towards the West, which became further entrenched due to increasing returns or positive feedbacks (such as financial and military aid) received from the West/ Europe/EU (Camyar and Tagma 2010).…”

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Forum: Foreign Policy, Emotions and Ontological Security

Resende,

Sandrin,

Solomon

2023

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This forum, as a part of the special issue on New Directions for Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), provides a diversity of answers to the question of how affects and emotions, and the search for ontological security, relate to foreign policy. By foregrounding the various ways to conceive the relationship between foreign policy, ontological security, collective identities, states’ autobiographical narratives, emotions and affective investments, the contributors to this forum examine and chart fruitful directions in FPA. Resende explores the analytical potentials of combining the theory of Ontological Security, Foreign Policy Analysis and Memory Studies to investigate how states invest in practices of ontological security by creating, remaking and defending their national narratives through historical memory. Solomon recollects how the September 11th attacks and the ensuing War on Terror contributed to his search for approaches which took affects and emotions seriously in IR, and which could help make sense of why some discourses, including foreign policy discourses, resonate with and are accepted by the audience in certain contexts. Finally, Sandrin provides an account of her encounters with the literature on the role of emotions in foreign policy and conveys how these texts helped her make sense of some puzzling aspects of Turkish foreign policy. Jimmy Casas Klausen served as lead editor of this forum. The manuscript passed through the regular double-blind peer review process to insure anonymity.

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Section: Paula Sandrinmentioning

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Forum: Foreign Policy, Emotions and Ontological Security

Resende,

Sandrin,

Solomon

2023

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“…The study is an excellent example of the mutual constitution of actors and structures where, as discussed earlier, identities and international relations evolve along with the systems they are creating (Hopf 1998). Alternatively, Camyar and Tagma (2010) argued that the historical and institutional trends of modernization have locked Turkey into a pattern of domestic and foreign policy based on institutional arrangements shaped during the Cold War era that current policy makers cannot break easily. The view here is that if institutions tend to be resistant to drastic change, current policy makers cannot change the trend toward Westernization in Turkey as easily as they had hoped.…”

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Same Ride, Different Riders

Faez

Wong

2022

World Affairs

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Mainstream international relations definitions commonly assume that states are identical units in a constant state of competition for survival to increase their power. Yet, such a one-sided approach fails to fully consider that the internal structures and contexts of states at different times and under different leaders exert considerable effects on how states act in the international arena and on the foreign policies that shape their identities, priorities, and thus relations with other states. We begin by questioning such theoretical assumptions and then apply a more appropriate reformulation to the case of Turkey's changing trade policy with the European Union (EU). Examining Gül's administration (2007–2014) and Erdoğan's (2014–2020), we look at whether a change in Turkish leadership resulted in a significant change in trade policy and led to a change in the dynamics of its foreign relations approach. Turkey's relations with the members of the EU are assessed (via panel data estimations) as the volume of trade between Turkey and EU members. The data consists of 25 European states’ GDP, Exchange Rate, and Inflation Rate for 2000–2020. We find a significant difference in Turkey's behavior in terms of trade with the EU members between the two administrations under study. This suggests the need to rethink some central theoretical assumptions in certain mainstream international relations perspectives.

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“…The first part of the book, 'Theories and Concepts', puts together complementary and competing conceptual and theoretical approaches with distinct analytical frameworks to study the overall evolution of EU-Turkey relations. The chapters cover approaches from major theoretical schools that are typically employed or referenced in EU-Turkey studies: neoliberalism/liberal intergovernmentalism (Müftüler-Baç & McLaren, 2003;Turhan, 2012Turhan, , 2016Reiners & Tekin, 2020), constructivism (Neumann, 1999;Sjursen, 2002;Aydın-Düzgit, 2012), historical institutionalism (Camyar & Tagma, 2010;Bürgin, 2016;Icoz, 2011), Europeanization (Noutcheva & Aydın-Düzgit, 2012;Börzel & Soyaltın, 2012;Alpan, 2014;Tekin & Güney, 2015;Aydın-Düzgit & Kaliber, 2016;Süleymanoglu-Kürüm & Cin, 2021), rhetorical entrapment (Schimmelfennig, 2009Bürgin, 2010;Saatçioglu, 2012), and differentiated integration (Turhan, 2017(Turhan, , 2018Müftüler-Baç, 2017;Özer, 2020). All chapters include an assessment of the basic features and core assumptions of the theory or concept under scrutiny, a brief review of the associated core literature and terminology, and the identification of key actors, forums, institutional frameworks, and policies most relevant from the respective perspective.…”

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Unpacking the New Complexities of EU–Turkey Relations: Merging Theories, Institutions, and Policies

Turhan

Reiners

2021

EU-Turkey Relations

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This chapter presents the rationale, objectives, and structure of this volume and introduces the reader to the new complexities that epitomize EU–Turkey relations. To this end, it provides a set of guiding questions for the volume, offers a systematic overview of the major milestones in the EU–Turkey relationship, and classifies the key determinants of these developments under three categories: multilateral frameworks and external crises, internal EU and Turkish domestic developments, and EU–Turkey bilateral processes. The chapter then introduces the three-dimensional approach of the volume that brings together the analytical lenses of (1) theories and concepts, (2) institutions, and (3) policies based on a comprehensive survey of both key primary sources and academic literature dealing with the relationship. In a final step, the chapter presents the ensuing fifteen contributions to the volume.

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Why Does Turkey Seek European Union Membership? A Historical Institutional Approach

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