Abstract
Notwithstanding the suggested ‘many faces of Europeanization’ (Olsen 2002), the majority of the literature seeks to explain Europeanization as a process via which the EU impacts domestic setting. In a seminal work, Ladrech terms Europeanization as a:
process re-orienting the direction and shape of politics to the degree that European [Union] political and economic dynamics become part of the organisational logic of national politics and policy-making
(Ladrech 1994: 69)
Indeed, this chapter follows the widespread understanding of Europeanization as the process via which the EU impacts domestic politics, policy and polity (Ladrech 1994; Börzel 1999; Wallace 2000; Hix and Goetz 2001; Töller 2010). With an increased focus on change (Featherstone 2003), Börzel and Risse (2002) have attempted a useful categorization of the degree of change produced at the domestic level between absorption (minimal degree of change), accommodation (modest degree of change) and, lastly, transformation (large degree of change). This chapter focuses on policy change and, in particular, the impact of the EU on the Cyprus issue as a major foreign policy matter for the EU candidate Turkey
process re-orienting the direction and shape of politics to the degree that European [Union] political and economic dynamics become part of the organisational logic of national politics and policy-making
(Ladrech 1994: 69)
Indeed, this chapter follows the widespread understanding of Europeanization as the process via which the EU impacts domestic politics, policy and polity (Ladrech 1994; Börzel 1999; Wallace 2000; Hix and Goetz 2001; Töller 2010). With an increased focus on change (Featherstone 2003), Börzel and Risse (2002) have attempted a useful categorization of the degree of change produced at the domestic level between absorption (minimal degree of change), accommodation (modest degree of change) and, lastly, transformation (large degree of change). This chapter focuses on policy change and, in particular, the impact of the EU on the Cyprus issue as a major foreign policy matter for the EU candidate Turkey
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Turkey and the European Union |
| Subtitle of host publication | Facing New Challenges and Opportunities |
| Editors | Firat Cengiz, Lars Hoffmann |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 1 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780203521762 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781138659155, 9780415828024 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |