Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey's Europeanisation : the private life of politics /

Firat, Bilge,

Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey's Europeanisation : the private life of politics / Bilge Firat. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages). - Political ethnography .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part I. Inside the private life of politics. The elephant in the room -- Fieldwork among the no(ta)bles -- part II. Framing EU membership. The accession pedagogy -- part III. Arts of diplomacy and lobbying in the EU institutions. Enlargement, twice a week -- Dramas of statecraft, mistrust and the politics of non-membership -- Political documents and bureaucratic entrepreneurs -- Conclusion : lessons from an anti-case.

This book presents intricate, backstage negotiations of interests and compromises between diplomats and lobbyists through the corridors of power, which drove Turkey both closer to and farther apart from the EU.



9781526133632 9781526133649

GBB9E3890 bnb

019513279 Uk


European Union--Foreign relations--Turkey.


Electronic Books.

DR479 / .D575 2019