The puzzles of Turkey’s EU accession negotiations
Time: 15.00
Venue: Meeting Room, 2nd floor - Department of Sociology and Social Research
Seminar
The presentation will argue that neither the conditionality approach nor the clash-of-civilization thesis can explain the puzzles of Turkey’s EU accession negotiations. It will present the model of ‘loosely coupled two-level games’, in which the heads of government on both sides mainly act with a view to the domestic political arena. Moreover, within this analytical framework the preentation will link the adoption and change of different (ethical-political, pragmatic and normative) conceptions of European integration to the rational-choice perspective of the leaders of confessional parties (albeit at different stages of secularization): the Turkish AKP and the German CDU. The oscillating positions and discourses of both parties can better be explained by changes in the respective domestic strategies than by the interaction at the international level.
Speaker: Joerg Baudner, Universität Osnabrück