Turkey-EU Relations: The Limitations of Europeanisation Studies

Year 2009, Issue: 40, 91 - 121, 01.05.2009

Didem Buhari

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000227

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Abstract

Turkey-EU Relations: The Limitations of Europeanisation Studies

Abstract

Europeanisation studies aim at highlighting the triggering role of the EU within Turkish context. However, these studies have several deficiencies. This article intends to highlight the inherent ontological and methodological problems associated with the concept of Europeanisation in general, and for Turkey-EU relations in particular

Keywords

Europeanisation, Turkey, the EU, Modernization, Westernization