Bilge Firat

Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey's Europeanisation (eBook, ePUB)

The private life of politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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, even when those interests go against their mandate? 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526133649
• Artikelnr.: 57720276

Autorenporträt

Bilge Firat is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Texas at El Paso

Inhaltsangabe

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