New Perspectives on Turkey-EU Relations

The book argues that we need to look at Turkey and the EU afresh in order to appreciate the richness and complexity of a relationship which is now more than 50 years old and is still not close to reaching fulfilment. Turkey’s position vis-a-vis the EU cannot be understood with simplistic notions of conditionality, harmonization, and Europeanization. A more rounded view of Turkey-EU relations is advanced based upon a broader context of European and global transformations. _x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies.