Diplomacy and Lobbying During Turkey’s Europeanisation
The Private Life of Politics
Seiten
2022
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6368-4 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6368-4 (ISBN)
This book presents intricate, backstage negotiations of interests and compromises between diplomats and lobbyists through the corridors of power, which drove Turkey both closer to and farther apart from the EU. -- .
How do interstate actors negotiate their interests? What do ‘common interests’ look like from their historically and culturally contingent perspectives? What happens when actors work for their private, professional, public, personal or institutional interests? Honing in on the role of diplomats and lobbyists during negotiations for Turkey’s contentious EU membership bid, this book presents intricate, backstage conflicts of power and interests and negotiations of compromises, which drove this candidate country both closer to and farther apart from the EU. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Brussels, this first book-length account of Turkish Europeanisation argues that public, private and corporate actors voicing economic, political and bureaucratic interests from all corners of Europe sought access to markets and polities through the Turkish bid instead of facilitating Turkey’s EU accession, earning recognition & power. -- .
How do interstate actors negotiate their interests? What do ‘common interests’ look like from their historically and culturally contingent perspectives? What happens when actors work for their private, professional, public, personal or institutional interests? Honing in on the role of diplomats and lobbyists during negotiations for Turkey’s contentious EU membership bid, this book presents intricate, backstage conflicts of power and interests and negotiations of compromises, which drove this candidate country both closer to and farther apart from the EU. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Brussels, this first book-length account of Turkish Europeanisation argues that public, private and corporate actors voicing economic, political and bureaucratic interests from all corners of Europe sought access to markets and polities through the Turkish bid instead of facilitating Turkey’s EU accession, earning recognition & power. -- .
Bilge Firat is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Texas at El Paso -- .
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Inside the private life of politics
1 The elephant in the room
2 Fieldwork among the no(ta)bles
Part II: Framing EU membership
3 The accession pedagogy
Part III: Arts of diplomacy and lobbying in the EU institutions
4 Enlargement, twice a week
5 Dramas of statecraft, mistrust and the politics of non-membership
6 Political documents and bureaucratic entrepreneurs
Conclusion: lessons from an anti-case
References
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Political Ethnography |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 327 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-6368-3 / 1526163683 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-6368-4 / 9781526163684 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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