Great Catalyst : European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey

Temel, Bulent (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0739174487 / ISBN 13: 9780739174487

Published by Lexington Books, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Great Catalyst : European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739174487
• ISBN 13: 9780739174487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

For over half a century, European Union has been a promising endeavor of cooperative institutionalism. It has shown that even nation states with a long history of conflict are capable of collaborating with one another to serve their own interests. However, the EU project has also made visible that there is no one-size-fits-all policy in economics that can be applied to all countries with success. Economics starts and ends with the society. Common culture determines the outcomes of economic policies, and ordinary people pick up the bill when policies turn out to be failures.

This book presents two different tales of the European Union to provide an empirical challenge to oversimplified assumptions behind the neoliberal orthodoxy in policymaking: Favorable experience of the EU-candidate Turkey, and the regrettable venture of the EU-member Greece. The fact that these two neighboring countries with similar cultures have had vastly different experiences with the European Union suggests that the EU functions as a catalyst of change in the countries that associate with it, but this impact could be negative as well as positive depending on the role the EU plays. Political economist Bülent Temel presents a lucid analysis of the Turkish and Greek encounters with the EU―based on contributions from a diverse range of social sciences; economics, game theory, finance, political science and sociology.

About the Author

Bülent Temel is a political economist who teaches and conducts research at Atilim University and Southern New Hampshire University. He has worked as a financier in corporate America for eight years before joining academia, and received several recognitions including the 2007 Edward Jones Outstanding Performance Award. Author or coauthor of 18 publications in the fields of political economics, international relations and cooperatism, Temel is an editorial board member at the International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies based in Zurich, Switzerland.