Great Catalyst

European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey
Herausgeber: Temel, Bülent

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ways by which the European Union impacts economic and political processes in its member and candidate countries. Positive Turkish and negative Greek experiences suggest that the EU functions as a powerful catalyst of political and economic change, if towards various ends.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9780739174487
• ISBN-10: 0739174487
• Artikelnr.: 37781730

Autorenporträt

Bülent Temel is a political economist who teaches and conducts research at Atilim University and Southern New Hampshire University. He has worked as a financier in corporate America for eight years before joining academia, and received several recognitions including the 2007 Edward Jones Outstanding Performance Award. Author or coauthor of 18 publications in the fields of political economics, international relations and cooperatism, Temel is an editorial board member at the International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Greece and the Eurozone: Staying or Leaving?
Panagiotis E. Petrakis
Chapter 2: Euro and the Economic Crisis in Greece
Basil Dalamagas
Chapter 3: Doomed to Failure: The EU's Role in the Greek Debt Crisis
George Dourakis
Chapter 4: Effects of Economic and Monetary Union on the Greek Political
System: Dimensions of the Current Crisis
Christoforos Vernardakis and Bülent Temel
Chapter 5: Greece and the European Union: Neoliberalism and its Discontents
Grigoris Zarotiadis
Chapter 6: Acrobats on a Rope: Greek Society between Contemporary European
Demands and Archaic Cultural Reflexes
Panayis Panagiotopoulos and Vassilis Vamvakas
Chapter 7: Regularizing the Unregulated? European Union's Role in the
Immigration Problem in Greece
Christina Akrivopoulou and Bülent Temel
Chapter 8: European Union Fervor in Turkey: Foreign Policy as a Domestic
Political Apparatus
Ersin Kalaycioglu
Chapter 9: Alignment of Turkish Securities Market Legislation with the EU
Acquis: Does EU Membership Offer Additional Benefits?
Aylin Ege and Gül Ertan Ilal
Chapter 10: Turkey's EU Accession Prospects
Serdar S. Güner
Chapter 11: Political Stability and Economic Expansion: Turkey Before and
After the EU Candidacy
Demet Yalçin Mousseau
Chapter 12: Turkey's Kurdish Conflict: The EU Candidacy and the Prospects
for Reconciliation
Hayriye Özen
Chapter 13: Trajectory of Corruption in Turkey's EU Venture
Ilhami Alkan Olsson
Chapter 14: Cognitive vs. Emotional Evaluations as the Foundations of
Public Perception of the EU in Turkey
Cengiz Erisen and Elif Erisen
Chapter 15: Turkish Democracy during the European Union Process:
Demilitarization and Resecuritization
Doga Ulas Eralp
Chapter 16: Candidacy versus Membership: Is Turkey the Greatest Beneficiary
of the EU?
Bülent Temel