TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION, DOMESTIC POLITICS, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND INTERNATIONAL DYNAMICS.

Çarkoglu, Ali & Rubin, Barry (eds.), 2003, Turkey and the European Union, Domestic Politics, Economic Integration and International Dynamics. London/Portland: Frank Cass

This is a collective book that analyses several major topics on EU-Turkish relations. Some of the articles analyse which is the public position stance towards the EU, which segments of the Turkish society support the EU membership, which is the specific position of Turkish Parliamentarians, the political debate on this issue and which are the intellectual roots of the anti-European sentiments. Some chapters are devoted to crucial issues such as the ESDP, Cyprus, the migration and asylum policy, the economical criteria or how the international norms become a challenge for the State. The book also provides a chronology and a useful index.

Robins, Philip, 2003, Suits and Uniforms, Turkish Foreign Policy since the Cold War, London: Hurst & Company

The international system changed radically since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Turkish Foreign Policy had to readapt to this new situation and this book analyses this process. Robins looks both to the international system and to domestic factors, judging the role of the historical, political, economical and ideological factors. He also analyses some new orientations of Turkey’s Foreign Policy, for instance the Balkan crisis or the relations with the Turkic Republics of Central Asia.

Beeley, Brian W. (ed.). 2002. Turkish Transformation, New Century, New Challenges. Huntingdon: The Eothen Press

This collective book analyses Turkish recent evolution in different fields like the ideological, the religious, the artistic, the economical or the political one. Several in depth chapters about the current media panorama, the new directions of Turkish foreign policy, its party system or the democracy commitment of the EU will help the reader to understand Turkish society and the complexity of its current political evolution, also in what concerns Turkey’s Foreign Policy.

F. Stephen Larrabee, Ian O. Lesser, 2002, Turkish Foreign Policy in in Age of Uncertainty, Santa Monica: RAND

The authors describe the challenges and opportunities facing Turkey in the international environment during a time of extraordinary flux. Special emphasis is given to the strategic and security issues facing Turkey, including a number of new issues posed by the terrorist attacks of September 2001 and the subsequent international response. They conclude by offering some prognostications regarding the country's future and their implications on Turkey's western partners. It is available in the net: http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1612/

Alder Berkem, Aysen, 2002, La Turquie devant le défi culturel de l’Union Européenne, Université de Genève, études et recherches, n. 43, 2002.

This book of Alder Berkem is a version of a research work that has analysed the complex relations between Turkey and the EU until 2001. Particularly, the book focuses on the refusal of a significant segment of EU public opinion as well as how the EU ask Turkey for changes that challenge some elements of the Turkish political and social system.

Rubin, Barry & Kirisci, Kemal (ed.), 2001, Turkey in World Politics, an Emergin Multiregional Power. London: Lynne Rienner

This is a comprehensive book that analyses some of the prioritised areas of Turkish Foreign Policy such as the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia or the special relationships with Israel and the United States. An article written by William Hale and Gamze Avci also analyses the evolution of Euro-Turkish relations. Other articles focus the attention in some issues of vital importance for Turkey as the energy policy, the water conflict with its southern neighbours, the Military role in Foreign Policy or the impact of the globalization process.

Aras, Bülent, 2001, The New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position, London/Portland: Frank Cass.

Bülent Aras analyses the relationships and the interactions between Turkey and its neighbours and among these countries. For instance, a chapter is devoted to the Greek policy towards the Caucasus or another to Israel’s policy towards Central Asia. The role of the USA as a global power and Iran as a main regional power are also analysed. The author tries to evaluate Turkey’s position in the regional system and which may be the strategic challenges in the future.

Çiçekoglu, Feride & Eldem, Edhem, 2001, La Méditerranée Turque, Paris : Maisonneuve & Larose.

These two authors try to answer this question: Does a Turkish insight of the Mediterranean exist? A pertinent question for those who analyse if Turkey has a coherent Mediterranean Policy and what is the place of this region in the minds of both Turkish decision makers and Turkish people. Then, across a research on Turkish history, literature and politics Çiçekoglu and Eldem seek to open the debate about the founding stones of Turkish Relations with its closest neighbours.

Cem, Ismail, 2001 (2nd edition) Turkey in the New Century, Istambul: Rustem Publishing.

The former Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs has collected in this book a selection of its discourses, conferences and statements on several topics as the Greek-Turkish relations, the Cyprus problem, and the priorities of Turkey in this new century as well as the relationship with the EU and Turkish efforts to join it. Along this discourses, the reader will see the recent evolution of Turkish Foreign Policy and will know the thought of the person who obtained the status of candidate in the Helsinki Council. Reflections about the priorities and continuities of Turkish Foreign Policy are also developed in Cem’s introductory and large chapter.

Keridis, Dimitris & Triantaphyllou, Dimitrios (eds.) 2001 Greek-Turkish Relations in the Era of Globalization, Dulles: Brassey’s Inc.

This collective book analyses several of the hottest developments of Greek-Turkish relations, such as the legal contentious about the Aegean see, the Cypriot issue, etc. It is written by researches coming mainly from Greece, Cyprus and Turkey but also by external observers. It analyses both the domestic and the international aspects of this complex and vital relationship and will help the reader to deepen its knowledge on a crucial element of EU-Turkish future.

Bal, Idris, 2000, Turkey's Relations with the West and the Turkic Republics: The Rise and Fall of the "Turkish Model", Aldershot: Ashgate

The book of Idris Bal is an analysis of the relations between Turkey, the West and the newly independent Turkic Republics of Central Asia. The author describes how a kind of “Turkish Model" has been proposed by the West as a possible model for the development of this region, trying to avoid that took other models such as the Iranian one. The author analyse both which was the reaction of Turkey vis-à-vis the creation of these republics and which has Central Asian acceptance of the “Turkish model”

Insel, Ahmet, 2000, La Turquie et l’Europe, une coopération tumultueuse, Paris : l’Harmattan

This book concentrates in the analysis of the ups and downs that have characterised the EU-Turkish relations since the beginning. It collects the contributions of the assistants to the workshop “La Turquie et l'Europe de la république à nos jours”, celebrated in Paris in 1998. That is to say, before Helsinki summit.

Hale, William, 2000, Turkish Foreign Policy, 1774-2000. London: Frank Cass.

This is a comprehensive book that gives the reader a complete panorama about the modern Turkish Foreign Policy. After analysing Ottoman Foreign Policy, Hale studies the Kemalist Foreign Policy as well as Turkey’s role during the Second World War. The effects of the Cold War are described in two chapters and the final part of the book concentrates in the post-cold new scenario: towards Central Asia, Greece, Balkans or the Middle East.

Çelik, Yasemin, 1999, Contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy, London/Conneticut: Praeger

This book analyses Turkish Foreign Policy since the foundation of the Republic by Atatürk. One of its chapters examines the complex relations between the EU and Turkey, while others are focused on the evolution of its relations with the United States and The Western security system and on the emergence of new partners, that is to say with the Turkic republics of Central Asia, the Caucasus or the Balkan region.

Müftüler-Bac, Meltem, 1997, Turkey's Relations with a Changing Europe (Europe in Change), Manchester: Manchester University Press

Müftüler-Bac’s text assesses Turkey's role in the post-Cold War European order, suggesting that its place has begun to undergo a transformation. It analyses the complexity of the EU-Turkish relations before Helsinki summit from different perspectives. The impact of a changing international system, the cultural factor, the historical evolution or the economical situation is taken into account