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A Delicate Balance Between Geopolitics and Sustainability: An Analysis of the Path Dependent Trajectories in EU-Turkey Energy Relations and Discursive Framing in Emerging Sectors

Büyük, Deniz Lidya LU (2025) STVM23 20251
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This work investigates the persistence of path dependent trajectories and institutional inertia between the European Union and Turkey, particularly in regards to how these dynamics shape the development of sustainability-focused discourse in the energy sector. It delves into further detail by examining how emerging fields of energy are framed within institutional discourse, and whether these dynamics undermine energy-related environmental progress on a broader scale. Informed by Historical Institutionalism as the primary theoretical framework, and employing an interpretive methodology, this study utilizes an integrated qualitative document analysis (QDA) in order to analyze pivotal institutional documents in energy policy through a dual,... (More)
This work investigates the persistence of path dependent trajectories and institutional inertia between the European Union and Turkey, particularly in regards to how these dynamics shape the development of sustainability-focused discourse in the energy sector. It delves into further detail by examining how emerging fields of energy are framed within institutional discourse, and whether these dynamics undermine energy-related environmental progress on a broader scale. Informed by Historical Institutionalism as the primary theoretical framework, and employing an interpretive methodology, this study utilizes an integrated qualitative document analysis (QDA) in order to analyze pivotal institutional documents in energy policy through a dual, yet inherently interrelated hypothesis structure. H1 investigates the dynamics of entrenched path dependencies between the EU and Turkey and their responsiveness under the impact of critical junctures in the international system. H2 focuses on the niche emerging sectors of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and biofuels, in order to assess the lenses through which newly emerging environmentally significant sectors are primarily framed through, throughout internal EU frameworks. The findings suggest that both institutional inertia and discursive framing practices operate in unison to further perpetuate the limitation of environmental transformations in the energy policy area, both domestically and internationally. Building on this foundation, the study contributes to broader dynamics of EU-Turkey relations, and the growing necessity to prompt a paradigmatic shift towards planetary politics on a larger scale. (Less)
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author
Büyük, Deniz Lidya LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVM23 20251
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
path dependency, institutional inertia, critical juncture, exogenous shock, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)
language
English
id
9189644
date added to LUP
2025-08-08 11:37:58
date last changed
2025-08-08 11:37:58
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  abstract     = {{This work investigates the persistence of path dependent trajectories and institutional inertia between the European Union and Turkey, particularly in regards to how these dynamics shape the development of sustainability-focused discourse in the energy sector. It delves into further detail by examining how emerging fields of energy are framed within institutional discourse, and whether these dynamics undermine energy-related environmental progress on a broader scale. Informed by Historical Institutionalism as the primary theoretical framework, and employing an interpretive methodology, this study utilizes an integrated qualitative document analysis (QDA) in order to analyze pivotal institutional documents in energy policy through a dual, yet inherently interrelated hypothesis structure. H1 investigates the dynamics of entrenched path dependencies between the EU and Turkey and their responsiveness under the impact of critical junctures in the international system. H2 focuses on the niche emerging sectors of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and biofuels, in order to assess the lenses through which newly emerging environmentally significant sectors are primarily framed through, throughout internal EU frameworks. The findings suggest that both institutional inertia and discursive framing practices operate in unison to further perpetuate the limitation of environmental transformations in the energy policy area, both domestically and internationally. Building on this foundation, the study contributes to broader dynamics of EU-Turkey relations, and the growing necessity to prompt a paradigmatic shift towards planetary politics on a larger scale.}},
  author       = {{Büyük, Deniz Lidya}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{A Delicate Balance Between Geopolitics and Sustainability: An Analysis of the Path Dependent Trajectories in EU-Turkey Energy Relations and Discursive Framing in Emerging Sectors}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}