CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Svensson, Adam Kristian |
|---|---|
| Title | Turkey's Road to Europe - Discursive structures and Enlargement Politics |
| Summary | This thesis analyzes the process of Turkey's accession to the EU using constructivist theory. EU enlargement in general, and the special case of Turkey's bid for membership in particular, are in many ways considered hard to analyze using traditional theories from European integration studies. By taking a radical constructivist approach and thereby us-ing a uniform method when analyzing both ideational factors (such as values, norms and rules) and material factors (such as economic and political power) the issue is described to be far more complex than is usually claimed. The discourse analysis shows that the Turkey case connects to three dominating discourses in Europe, of which two suggest that Turkey is more or less not an eligible future member of the EU. The third discourse indicates that only minor changes in the identity of Turkey as seen from the EU perspec-tive would render the country an applicant that would no longer be stalled in its aspirations to join the EU. Moreover, the third discourse in fact reveals significant possibilities that Turkey is starting to become portrayed as an asset instead of a liability for the EU. |
| Supervisor | Enyedi, Zsolt; Roe, Paul |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/svensson_adam.pdf |
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