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OverviewHow 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bilge FiratPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm ISBN: 9781526133625ISBN 10: 1526133628 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 17 September 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList 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 -- .ReviewsFirat has been hanging with the Eurocrats, the diplomats and the lobbyists of Brussels and comes back with a story that throws new light on their actual everyday give and take. The book offers that rare thing: new knowledge. Iver B. Neumann, author of At Home with the Diplomats -- . """Firat has been hanging with the Eurocrats, the diplomats and the lobbyists of Brussels and comes back with a story that throws new light on their actual everyday give and take. The book offers that rare thing: new knowledge."" Iver B. Neumann, author of At Home with the Diplomats -- ." Author InformationBilge Firat is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Texas at El Paso. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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