IREU 308 EU –Turkey Relations Spring 2015
Asst. Prof. Dr. Alexander Bürgin, Room: 716
Office Hours: Wednesday 14.00-14.50 and Thursday 14.00-15.50
Course Content
This course analyses the evolution of the EU-Turkey relations (legal, economic, geostrategic, cultural and
institutional aspects). The first part of the course focuses on the preferences and power of the involved actors,
the second part addresses current debates in EU-Turkey relations.
Course Learning Outcomes
The students who succeeded in this course;
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To explain the fundamental EU enlargement theories (rationalism and constructivism)
To explain the dynamics of the process of enlargement by identifying the main actors and institutions
involved
To examine Turkey-EU relations in a historical perspective by identifying the key milestones
To apply the theories of EU enlargement to Turkey-EU relations and make comparisons with other
enlargement rounds
To analyze the political, legal and official dimensions of Turkey’s EU accession process
Course Preparation
Copies of the relevant weekly readings are available at the copy shop of the university. Students are also
strongly encouraged to follow an international daily (such as New York Times, The Independent or The
Guardian) and/or a magazine (The Economist, Newsweek).
Some recommended Internet Sources:
- http://www.euractiv.com/ (lots of dossiers, analysis, links)
- http://europa.eu/index_en.htm (official EU-homepage)
- http://www.europeanvoice.com/
- http://euobserver.com (Online Newspaper)
- http://www.avrupa.info.tr/Delegasyonumuz.html (Delegation of the European Union to Turkey)
- http://www.mfa.gov.tr (Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
http://www.abgs.gov.tr (Turkish General Secretariat for EU Affairs)
- http://www.ikv.org.tr (Turkey Economic Development Foundation)
- http://www.cer.org.uk/ (Centre for European ReformCER)
- http://www.ceps.eu/ (Centre for European Policy Studies – CEPS)
- http://www.abhaber.net or http://www.abhaber.com
- http://www.ecsanet.org (European Community Studies Association)
Assignments
Good attendance and class participation. The university requires a 70% attendance. Students need to bring
written reports in order to be excused for a missed session. You are expected to come to class fully prepared to
discuss the assigned reading.
Homework. Every week, you submit a written summary of the required reading. In addition, in the course of
the semester you prepare at least one summary of a suggested reading. No late submission accepted.
In-Class Presentation. You will have one in-class presentation (12 -15 minutes). For the presentation you have
to choose one of the suggested presentation topics. List of topics will be presented in the first session. Draft of
presentation and paper has to be submitted until 31.3. (Delay = point deduction).
Term Paper. Based on your presentation topic. Paper has to be submitted until 22.5.
Exams. There will be two exams.
Grading
Exam 1
Exam 2
Homework
Attendance/Participation
Presentation
Term Paper
25%
25%
10 %
10%
15%
15 %
Course Outline
Bold Font: required reading
Normal Font: suggested reading
Session 1 Introduction 17.2./19.2.
Session 2 Situating Turkey’s EU accession in EU studies/Reading and Presentation Skills 24.2./26.2.
- Schimmelfennig, F. and Sedelmeier, U. (2002) ‘Theorizing EU enlargement: research focus,
hypotheses, and the state of research’, Journal of European Public Policy 9(4): 500528.
Session 3 From the Association Agreement 1963 to the Custom Union 1995 3.3./5.3.
- Aydın, Mustafa (2003) ‘The Determinants of Turkish Foreign Policy, and Turkey’s European Vocation’
The Review of International Affairs 3(2):306-331.
- Kabaalioglu (1998) The Custom Union: A final step before Turkey’s Accession to the EU, 113-140
- Arıkan, H. (2003) Turkey and the EU (Ashgate): 59-69
- Hartler, Christina and Sam Laird (1999) The EU Model and Turkey. A Case for Thanksgiving, Journal
of World Trade (33) 3, 147-165
- World Bank (2014) Evaluation of the EU-Turkey Customs Union,
http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/eca/turkey/tr-eu-customs-unioneng.pdf
Session 4 Eastern Enlargement, Luxemburg 1997 and Helsinki 1999 10.3./12.3.
- MüftülerBaç, M. and Mclaren, L. M. (2003) ‘Enlargement preferences and policymaking in the
European Union: Impacts on Turkey’, European Integration 25: 17-30
- Barnes, I. and Barnes, P. (2007) ‘Enlargement’, in Cini, M. (ed) European Union Politics (Oxford:
Oxford University Press): 421-440
- Eralp, A. ‘Turkey in the enlargement process: From Luxembourg to Helsinki’
- Susanna Verney (2007) The dynamics of EU accession: Turkish travails in comparative perspective
- Yilmaz, Bahri (2008) The Relation of Turkey with the EU: Candidate forever?, Center for European
Studies Working Paper Series, No. 167, chapter 3-4
Session 5 From Candidate Status 1999 to the Opening of Accession Talks in 2005 17.3/19.3.
- Akçapar, B. (2007) Turkey’s new European era (Rowman and Littlefield): 11-56.
- Schimmelfennig, Frank (2008), ‘Entrapped again: The way to EU membership negotiations with
Turkey’, UCD Dublin European Institute, Working Paper 8, http://www.ucd.ie/dei/wp/WP_088_Schimmelfennig.pdf
- Barysch, Katinka/Everts, Steven/Grabbe, Heather (2005) Why Europe should embrace Turkey, chapter
1, 2 (and 3); http://www.cer.org.uk/pdf/p_637_europe_emb_turkey.pdf
- McLaren, Lauren (2007), ‘Explaining Opposition to Turkish Membership of the EU’, European Union
Politics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 251 – 278
- Emerson, Michael et al. (2006), ‘Just what is this absorption capacity of the EU’, Centre for European
Policy Studies, Policy Brief, No. 113. Available at: www.ceps.eu
- Ruiz-Jimenez, Antonia M./Torreblanca, Jose (2008), ‘Is there a trade-off between deepening and
widening? What do Europeans think?’ European Policy Institutes Network, Working Paper No. 17.
Available at: www.epin.org
- Ruiz-Jimenez, A and Torreblanca, J (2007). ‘European Public Opinion and Turkey’s Accession: Making
Sense of Arguments For and Against’. European Policy Institutes Network Working Papers (16)
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European Stability Initiative (2008), ‘A referendum on the unknown Turk? Anatomy of an Austrian
debate’, Berlin – Istanbul. Available at: www.esiweb.org
Session 6 The organization and progress of the accession talks 24.3./26.3.
- Blockmans (2014) EU-Turkey Relations: Turning vicious circles into virtuous ones, CEPS Policy Brief,
26 March 2014
- Today’s Zaman (2014) Transatlantic Trend: Turkey more willing to re-engage with EU-NATO, 10
September, http://www.todayszaman.com/national_transatlantic-trends-turkey-more-willing-tore-engage-with-eu-nato_358300.html
- International Crisis Group (2014) Coming to terms on an imperfect reality, Europe Report 229, 14
March 2014
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European Commission (2014) Turkey Progress Report 2014,
http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/key_documents/2014/20141008-turkey-progressreport_en.pdf
Ministy of EU Affairs (2014a) Turkey’s New European Union Strategy,
http://www.abgs.gov.tr/files/pub/turkeys_new_eu_strategy.pdf
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Ministry of EU Affairs (2014b) European Union Communication Strategy,
http://www.abgs.gov.tr/files/000etkinlikler/2014/10/iletisim_stratejisi_eng_kapak_eklen
mis.pdf
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European Commission: Understanding Enlargement,
http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/publication/enl-understand_en.pdf
Bürgin, Alexander (2013) A missed opportunity in Cyprus to revive talks, Hürriyet Daikly News, 8 April
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/a-missed-opportunity-in-cyprus-to-revivetalks.aspx?pageID=238&nID=44444&NewsCatID=396
Ugur, M. (2010) Open-Ended Membership Prospect and Commitment Credibility: Explaining the
Deadlock in EU–Turkey Accession Negotiations, Journal of Common Market Studies, 4(4): 967-991.
Müftüler Bac (2013) The Future of Europe, Differentiated Integration and Turkey’s role, Istanbul Policy
Center, October, http://www.iai.it/pdf/GTE/GTE_C_09.pdf
Ondarza, Nicolai (2013) Strengthening the Core or Splitting Europe. Prospects and Pitfalls of a
Strategy of Differentiated Europe, SWP Research Paper, March, http://www.swpberlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2013_RP02_orz.pdf
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Session 7 Europeanisation of Turkey 31.3./2.4. (Submission Draft of Presentation/Term Paper)
- Tocci, N. (2005) ‘Europeanization in Turkey: Trigger or Anchor for Reform?’, South European Society
and Politics 10(1): 7383
- Alpan, Başak and Thomas Diez. (2014) ‘The Devil is in the ‘Domestic’? European Integration Studies
and the Limits of Europeanization in Turkey’, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 16 (1):110.
- Börzel, T and D. Soyaltin (2012): ‘Europeanization in Turkey: Stretching a Concept to its Limits?’ KFG
Working paper No. 36, Free University Berlin, http://userpage.fu
berlin.de/kfgeu/kfgwp/wpseries/WorkingPaperKFG_36.pdf
- Bürgin, A. (2014) Strategic Learning, Limited Europeanization: How the Turkish Police Used Twinning to
Prepare itself for the Planned New Border Agency, Turkish Studies 15(3), 458-76
- Schimmelfennig, F. (2003) ‘Costs, Commitment and Compliance: The Impact of EU Democratic
Conditionality on Latvia, Slovakia and Turkey’, Journal of Common Market Studies 41(3): 495518
- Bürgin, Alexander (2011): Why Turkey is ready for a readmission agreement, Journal of European
Public Policy
- Baudner, Joerg (2012): The Politics of ‘Norm Diffusion’ in Turkish European Union Accession
Negotiations: Why It was Rational for an Islamist Party to be ‘Pro-European’ and a Secularist Party to
be ‘Anti-European’, JCMS 2012 Volume 50. Number 6. pp. 922–938
Session 8 Exam 1 6.4. (Monday)
Session 9 Economical and Political Implications of Turkey’s EU accession (1) 7.4./9.4. (Feedback Presentations
Draft/ Decision scholarship student for Freiburg, Germany)
- Hughes, Kirsty (2004) Turkey and the EU: Just another enlargement? Exploring the implication of
Turkish Accession, Friends of Europe Working Paper,
http://www.cdu.de/en/doc/Friends_of_Europe_Turkey.pdf (Section 2)
- Ugur, Mehmet (2008) Economic implications of Turkish EU membership: the advantage of tying
one’s hand, Munich Personal RePEc Archive, http://mpra.ub.unimuenchen.de/18547/1/MPRA_paper_18547.pdf
- MüftülerBaç, M. (2004) ‘Turkey’s accession to the European Union: Institutional and Security
Challenges’, Perceptions, Autumn: 29-43 (page 33-34)
- Mustafa Kutlay, “Is Turkey Drifting Away from the West? An Economic Interpretation,” Turkish Weekly
(October 28, 2009)
Session 10 Economical and Political Implications of Turkey’s EU accession (2) 14.4/16.4.
- Hughes, Kirsty (2004) Turkey and the EU: Just another enlargement? Exploring the implication of
Turkish Accession, Friends of Europe Working Paper,
http://www.cdu.de/en/doc/Friends_of_Europe_Turkey.pdf (Section 3)
- Müftüler-Bac/Gürsoy, Y. (2010): Is there a Europeanization of Turkey’s Foreign Policy, Turkish
Studies, vol.11, no. 3
- Barysch, K. (2011) Why the EU and Turkey Need to Coordinate Their Foreign Policies, Carnegie, 31
August, http://carnegieendowment.org/2011/08/31/why-eu-and-turkey-need-to-coordinate-theirforeign-policies
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Öniş, Z (2014) Turkey and the Arab Revolutions: Boundaries of Regional Power Influence in
a Turbulent Middle East, Mediterranean Politics 19(2), 203-219.
New York Times (2014) Turkey’s failed foreign policy, 22 August,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/opinion/turkeys-failed-foreign-policy.html?_r=0
Ömer Taşpınar, “The Rise of Turkish Gaullism: Getting Turkish-American Relations Right,” Insight
Turkey, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2011)
Stephen Larrabee, “Turkey’s New Geopolitics,” Survival, Vol. 52, No. 2 (2010), pp. 157 – 180
Hanna Ojanen and Igor Torbakov, “Is Turkey Emerging as an Independent Regional Power?” Europe’s
World (May 12, 2009)
Tarık Oğuzlu, “The Changing Dynamics of Turkey-Israel Relations: A Structural Realist Account,”
Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2009), pp. 273 – 288
Session 11 and 12 Students Presentation – Preparation for Europe’s Day 21.4./5.5./7.5.
Session 13 Implications of Turkey’s EU membership prospects on European and national identities 12.5./14.5.
- Delhey, Jan (2007) Do enlargements make the EU less cohesive? An analysis of trust between EU
nationalities, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol 45,2, 253-79
- Baban, Feyzi and Fuat Keyman (2008) Turkey and Postnational Europe: Challenges for the
Cosmopolitan Community, Eurpean Journal of Social Theory, 11(1), 107-124
- Parker, Owen (2009), ’Cosmopolitan Europe and the EU-Turkey question: the politics of a common
destiny’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 16, No. 7, pp. 1085-1101
- MacMillan, Cahterine (2010) Which identity for the European Union, http://www.eir.info/2010/03/21/which-identity-for-the-eu-implications-of-and-for-turkeys-accession/
- Müftüler-Bac, M. (2011) The EU and Turkey: Democracy, Multiculturalism and European Identity;
RECON Online Papers, no. 20
http://www.reconproject.eu/main.php/RECON_wp_1120.pdf?fileitem=3555451
Session 14 Outlook and Exam 2 18.5. Monday evening/25.5. (after end of semester)
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Pierini, Marc and Ülgen, Sinan (2014) A moment of opportunity in the EU-Turkey relations,
Carnegi Europe, 10 December, http://carnegieeurope.eu/2014/12/10/moment-ofopportunity-in-eu-turkey-relationship.