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Principles versus Interests: Reactions of the Current Actors in Turkey to the EU’s Increasing FTAs with Third Countries

Kaplan, Yilmaz LU (2010) STVM17 20101
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The EU has recently shifted its trade policy from multilateralism to bilateralism, and this has highly affected Turkey via the existing trade regime with the EU. The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the reactions of current actors in Turkey to the EU’s increasing FTAs with third countries in the EU-Turkey trade regime context. To do this, a theoretical framework has been established by using the neo-liberal institutionalist approach, and then a qualitative case study has been designed. Most of the data have been directly collected from several actors by using different methods. The collected data have been analysed with the help of the theoretical framework, and the main finding is that the current actors in... (More)
The EU has recently shifted its trade policy from multilateralism to bilateralism, and this has highly affected Turkey via the existing trade regime with the EU. The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the reactions of current actors in Turkey to the EU’s increasing FTAs with third countries in the EU-Turkey trade regime context. To do this, a theoretical framework has been established by using the neo-liberal institutionalist approach, and then a qualitative case study has been designed. Most of the data have been directly collected from several actors by using different methods. The collected data have been analysed with the help of the theoretical framework, and the main finding is that the current actors in Turkey who have an effect on the foreign trade policy demand to make a change within the EU-Turkey trade regime rather than to change the regime/to establish another alternative regime as a response to the EU’s increasing FTAs with third countries. (Less)
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author
Kaplan, Yilmaz LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVM17 20101
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
neo-liberal institutionalism, complex interdependence, the EU-Turkey relations, international regimes
language
English
id
1608300
date added to LUP
2010-06-30 16:26:32
date last changed
2010-06-30 16:26:32
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  abstract     = {{The EU has recently shifted its trade policy from multilateralism to bilateralism, and this has highly affected Turkey via the existing trade regime with the EU. The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the reactions of current actors in Turkey to the EU’s increasing FTAs with third countries  in  the  EU-Turkey  trade  regime  context.  To  do  this,  a  theoretical  framework  has been established by using the neo-liberal institutionalist approach, and then a qualitative case study has been designed. Most of the data have been directly collected from several actors by using  different  methods.  The  collected  data  have  been  analysed  with  the  help  of  the theoretical framework, and the main finding is that the current actors in Turkey who have an effect  on  the  foreign  trade  policy  demand  to  make  a  change  within  the EU-Turkey  trade regime rather than to change the regime/to establish another alternative regime as a response to the EU’s increasing FTAs with third countries.}},
  author       = {{Kaplan, Yilmaz}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Principles versus Interests: Reactions of the Current Actors in Turkey to the EU’s Increasing FTAs with Third Countries}},
  year         = {{2010}},
}