Bogaziçi University Prof. Sevket Pamuk
ATA 682 Spring 2009

Turkey’s Political Economy and European Integration since 1980

The aim of the course is to examine analytically the leading issues in Turkey’s political economy and the politics and economics of its European integration process. It will make extensive use of concepts from economics, political economy and European studies. The course consists of three parts:

Part I (2 weeks) reviews the (recent) historical background in Turkey’s politics and economy.
Part II (4 weeks) examines some of the leading issues in the political economy of contemporary Turkey.
Part III (4 weeks) focuses on the politics and economics of Turkey’s European integration process.
Requirements for the course include, in class presentations, one short essay based on the in-class presentation and one longer paper due at the end of the term.

All of the readings in this list will be available electronically.

For purposes of research, the students are also advised to search the back issues of the following journals: Turkish Studies, New Perspectives on Turkey, South European Society and Politics, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans and Middle Eastern Studies.

C O U R S E O U T L I N E

* required reading for the week

Part I : Historical Background

IA- Economy and Economic Policy since World War II (2 weeks)

* Z. Öniş and F. Şenses, “Global Dynamics, Domestic Coalitions and a Reactive State: Major Policy Shifts in Post-War Turkish Economic Development”, METU Studies in Development, Ankara, 2007, pp. 251-86.

* Z. Öniş, “Turgut Özal and His Economic Legacy: Turkish Neo-Liberalism in Critical Perspective”, Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, 2004.

* E. Yeldan, “Neoliberal Global Remedies: Speculative-led growth to IMF-led crisis in Turkey”, Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 38, no. 2, 2006.

* Z. Öniş and C. Bakir, “Turkey’s Political Economy in the Age of Financial Globalization: The Significance of the EU Anchor”, South European Society and Politics, vol. 12, 2007, pp. 1-29

Ş. Pamuk, “Economic Change in Twentieth Century. Is the Glass More than Half Full?”, in R. Kasaba (ed.), Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, 2008, pp. 266-300.

E.F. Keyman and Z. Öniş, Turkish Politics in a Changing World, Global Dynamics and Domestic Transformations, Istanbul, 2007, chapters 6, 7 and 9, pp. 103-158 and 179-210.

Part II : Leading Issues in Political Economy

II-A- Neo-Liberal Reforms

* Ç. Ökten, “Privatization in Turkey: What has been achieved?”, in S. Altug and A. Filiztekin (eds.), The Turkish Economy, Routledge, 2006, pp. 227-51.

* A. Tüker, M. Üçer and C. Van Rijckeghem, “The Banking Sector, From Crisis to Maturation”, in S. Altug and A. Filiztekin (eds.), The Turkish Economy, Routledge, 2006, pp. 276-303.

* A. Ganioglu, “Understanding Banking Sector Reforms in Turkey: assessing the roles of domestic versus external actors”, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Vol. 10, 2008, pp. 363-76.

* U. Zenginobuz, “On Regulatory Agencies in Turkey and Their Independence”, Turkish Studies, Vol. 9, 2008, pp. 475-505.

* H. Ozler and H. Inac, “Problems of Collective Action and Institutionalization in the Turkish Policymaking Environment”, Turkish Studies, vol. 8, 2007, pp. 365-94.

II-B- Agriculture, Labor Markets and Social Policy

* A. H. Akder, “Policy Formation in the process of implementing Agricultural Reform in Turkey”, International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Vol. 6, 2007, pp. 514-32.

* World Bank, Labor Market Study for Turkey, 2006., Chapter 1, pp. 1-13.

A. Bugra and C. Keyder, “The Turkish Welfare Regime in Transformation”, Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 16, 2006, pp. 211-228.

* A. Çarkoglu and M. Eder, “Development alla Turca: The Southeastern Anatolia Development Project (GAP)” in F. Adaman and M. Arsel (eds.), Environmentalism in Turkey, Between Democracy and Development, Ashgate, 2005, pp. 167-83.

G. Berik and C. Bilginsoy, “The Labor Movement in Turkey: Labor Pains, Maturity Metamorphosis”, in E. Goldberg (ed.), The Social History of Labor in the Middle East, 1996, pp. 37-64.

II-C- Rise of New Economic Elites

* Ş. Pamuk, ““Globalization, industrialization and changing politics in Turkey”, New Perspectives on Turkey, No. 38, 2008, pp. 267-73.

* O. Demir, M. Acar and M. Toprak, “Anatolian Tigers or Islamic Capital: Prospects and Challenges”, Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 40, 2004, pp. 166-88.

* Z. Öniş, “Globalization and Party Transformation: Turkey’s Justice and Development Party in Perspective”, P. Burnell (ed.), Globalizing Politics, Party Politics in Emerging Democracies, London, 2006, pp. 1-27.

* F. Adaman and M. Arsel (eds.), “Introduction” and “Conclusion”, in Environmentalism in Turkey, Between Democracy and Development, 2005, pp. 1-11 and pp. 293-298 and “European Union and Turkey: who defines environmental progress?” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 40, 2008, pp. 541-43.

Part III : Politics and Economics of EU Integration

III-A Overview of the Integration Process

* S. Verney, “National Identity and Political Change on Turkey’s road to EU Membership”, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, vol. 9, no. 3, 2007, pp. 213-221.

* S. Verney, “The Dynamics of Turkish Accession: Turkish travails in comparative perspective”, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Vol. 9, 2007, pp. 307-22.

E. Ozbudun, Democratization Reforms in Turkey, 1993-2004” Turkish Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 2007, pp. 179-196.

K. Derviş, M. Emerson, D. Gros and S. Ülgen “The Economics of Turkey’s Candidacy”, in European Transformation of Modern Turkey, 2004, pp. 65-107.

* C. Behar, Demographic Developments and Complementarities: Ageing, Labor and Migration”, Turkish Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2006, pp. 17-31.

M. Muftuler Bac, “Turkey’s Political Reforms and the Impact of the European Union”,
South European Society and Politics, vol. 10, 2005, pp. 17-31.

III-B- Selected Issues in Turkey’s European Integration

* M. Aydin and S. A. Açikmese,” Europeanization through EU conditionality: understanding the new era in Turkish foreign policy, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Vol. 9, no. 3, 2007, pp. 263-74.

* Z. Oniş and S. Yilmaz, “Between Europeanization and Euro-Asianism: Foreign Policy Activism in Turkey during the AKP Era”, Turkish Studies, 2009, forthcoming.

K. Ulusoy, “The Europeanisation of Turkey and its impact on the Cyprus problem”, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Vol. 10, 2008, pp. 309-329.

* K. Kirisci, “National Identity, Asylum and Immigration: the EU as a vehicle of post-national transformation in Turkey” in Turkey Beyond Nationalism, 2007, pp. 174-92.

K. Kirisci, “A Friendlier Schengen Visa System as a Tool of ‘Soft Power’: the experience of Turkey”, European Journal of Migration and Law, Vol. 7, 2007, pp. 343-67.

* G. M. Winrow, “Turkey and EU Energy Security” in A. Hug (ed.) Turkey in Europe, The Foreign Policy Center, London, 2008, pp. 57-66.

III-C- Domestic Politics and EU Integration

* C. B. Aybar, E. A. Mergen, V. Perotti, D. McHardy Reid, Analysis of Attitudes of Turkish Citizens towards the Effects of EU Membership”, Turkish Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2007.

* N. Onar, “Kemalists, Islamists and Liberals: Shifting Patterns of Confrontation and Consensus”, Turkish Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2007.

* Y. Taskin, “AKP’s Move to ‘Conquer’ the Center-Right: Its Prospects and Possible Impacts on the Democratization Process”, Turkish Studies, Vol. 10, no. 1, 2008, pp. 53-72.

N. Canefe and T. Bora, “Intellectual Roots of anti-European Sentiments in Turkish Politics: the case of radical Turkish nationalism”, Turkish Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2003.

S. B. Gülmez, “The EU Policy of the Republican People’s Party: An inquiry on the opposition and Euro-scepticism in Turkey”, Turkish Studies, Vol.9, 2008, pp. 423-36.

III-D- (Week 10) EU and Turkey: Looking Ahead

* Z. Oniş, “Turkey-EU relations: beyond the current stalemate”, Turkey Insight, Vol. 10, no. 4, 2008, pp. 35-50.

* S. Deringil, “The Turks and ‘Europe’: the argument from history”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 43, No. 5, 2007, pp. 709-23.

* J. Casanova, “The Long, Difficult, and Tortuous Journey of Turkey into Europe and the Dilemmas of European Civilization” Constellations, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2006, pp. 234-47.

* J. Redmond, “Turkey and the European Union: troubled European or European trouble”, International Affairs, Vol. 83, no. 2, March 2007, pp. 305-317.

* H. Yilmaz, “Turkish identity on the road to the EU: basic elements of French and German oppositional discourses”, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Vol. 9, 2007, pp. 293-305.

* K. Barysch, “What Europeans Think about Turkey and Why”, Centre for European Reform, 2007.

K. Barysch, S. Everts and H. Grabbe, Why Europe Should Embrace Turkey, Centre for European Reform, London, 2007.