Turkey and the EU: Energy, Transport and Competition Policies

Edited by Ahmet O. Evin, Emre Hatipoglu and Péter Balázs

This book us the product of a research project on Turkey-EU relations launched at the time when Turkey's accession talks were coming to a standstill. The purpose of this project, carried out by a team of faculty members from the Central European University (Budapest) and Sabanci University (Istanbul), was to change the hackneyed research agenda of EU-Turkey relations and move the debate away from repeated iterations of perceptions of Turkey's identity, its Europeanness, and its ability to adapt to EU norms. Instead, the project focused on strategic aspects of Euro-Turkish relations with a view to assessing how Turkey's regional policy and its role in the neighborhood might be reconciled with that of the EU even when its membership prospects remained bleak.
This volume focuses on three specific policy areas where Turkey's potential to compement and reinforce EU policies and practices in its neighborhood are assessed: energy, transport, and competition. By examining these three policy areas, we aim to enhance understanding of both Turkey's and the EU's positions, help identify the extent to which their differences may be reconcilable in these three policy areas, and provide by means of concrete examples fresh ideas and alternative approaches for formulating complementary and coherent neighborhood policies.

Published in 2016 by Claeys & Casteels Law Publishers
ISBN 978-90-77644-37-9