EU-Turkey Relations

Wulf Reiners is Senior Researcher and Head of the ‘Managing Global Governance’ (MGG) Program of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul, Turkey, and Researcher at the University of Cologne, Germany. He has served as the Academic Coordinator and Program Director of various EU-funded projects on EU-Turkey relations, EU external action, and digitalization towards sustainable development.Ebru Turhan is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Turkish-German University in Istanbul, Turkey. She also serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Politics (IEP), Germany. Her research focuses on EU-Turkey relations, external differentiated integration, EU enlargement policy, and German-Turkish relations. Turhan holds an MA in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Bath, UK and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cologne, Germany.

“Provide up-to-date insights into diplomatic relations between Turkey and the European Union and help understand how they have evolved over time. … the books shed new light on the EU’s main concerns and provide new perspectives. … This is a comprehensive work that tackles the most relevant issues on the topic and analyses Turkey–EU relations in their broadest form.” (Massimo D’Angelo, International Affairs, Vol. 98 (1), 2022)

• Chapter 1. Unpacking the New Complexities of EU-Turkey Relations: Merging Theories, Institutions, and Policies.- Part 1: Theories and Concepts.- Chapter 2. Neoliberalism, Liberal Intergovernmentalism and EU-Turkey Relations.- Chapter 3. Constructivist Approaches to EU-Turkey Relations.- Chapter 4. Historical Institutionalism and EU-Turkey Relations: Path Dependence and Critical Junctures in the Accession Process.- Chapter 5. Europeanization and EU-Turkey Relations: Three Domains, Four Periods.- Chapter 6. Rhetorical Entrapment in EU-Turkey Relations.- Chapter 7. Differentiated Integration: An Alternative Conceptualization of EU-Turkey Relations.- Part 2: Institutions.- Chapter 8. The European Council as a Key Driver of EU-Turkey Relations: Central Functions Internal Dynamics and Evolving Preferences.- Chapter 9. The European Commusion's Role in EU-Turkey Relations.- Chapter 10. The European Parliament's Perspective on EU-Turkey Relations.- Part 3: policies.- Chapter 11. Turkey as a Special and (Almost) Dead Case of EU Enlargement Policy.- Chapter 12. The EU as an Anchor for Turkey's Macroeconomic and Trade Policy.- Chapter 13. From Convergence to Divergence: The Compatibility of Turkish and EU Foreign Policy.- Chapter 14. Europeanization and De-Europeanization of Turkish Asylum and Migration Policies.- Chapter 15. EU-Turkey Energy Dialogue: Moving Beyond the Accession Negotiations Framework.- Part 4: Conclusion.- Chapter 16. Current Trends and Future Prospects for EU-Turkey Relations: Conditions for a Cooperative Relationship.