Reluctant Europeans? European integration and the transformation of Turkish politics
(2014) p.243-260- Abstract
Turkey is in search of a new social contract premised on an extensive revision of the country's Kemalist inheritance and incorporating the economic and political transformations set in motion in the Ozal period. This is not a straightforward task for the reformist forces in Turkish politics and civil society; the imperative and nature of reform are the object of contestation between those factions within the bureaucratic and military elite that have associated their social supremacy with the maintenance of the Kemalist tradition and its preferred variant of modernization, and the emerging reformist forces which rally around the demand for Europeanization. In this internal struggle between the established model of authoritarian... (More)
Turkey is in search of a new social contract premised on an extensive revision of the country's Kemalist inheritance and incorporating the economic and political transformations set in motion in the Ozal period. This is not a straightforward task for the reformist forces in Turkish politics and civil society; the imperative and nature of reform are the object of contestation between those factions within the bureaucratic and military elite that have associated their social supremacy with the maintenance of the Kemalist tradition and its preferred variant of modernization, and the emerging reformist forces which rally around the demand for Europeanization. In this internal struggle between the established model of authoritarian modernization and a more open modernist conception of politicalliberalism, the prospect of a deepened relationship between the EU and Turkey has played a significant role in shaping Turkish politics du ring the past two decades.
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- author
- Sofos, Spyros A. LU
- publishing date
- 2014-05-12
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Europeanization and the Southern Periphery
- editor
- Featherstone, Kevin and Kazamias, George
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85070327977
- ISBN
- 9781315039855
- 9780714650876
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 4ec58b18-347d-4b3e-9977-da04e9755160
- date added to LUP
- 2021-02-10 04:12:53
- date last changed
- 2024-03-21 02:08:52
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