dc.contributor.advisor | Grigoriadis, Loannis | |
dc.contributor.author | İpek, Volkan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-08T20:19:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-01-08T20:19:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/18508 | |
dc.description | Ankara : The Department of Political Science, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2015. | en_US |
dc.description | Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2015. | en_US |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references leaves 272-293. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This study aims to analyze the membership application of the Kingdom of
Morocco to the European Community in 1987 through postcolonial nationalism,
which refers to the fact that the impacts of colonizer states continue on the national
identity of the colonized states after colonialism. It analyzes the membership
application of the Kingdom of Morocco to the European Community in terms of how
Morocco felt European so that it claimed its Europeanness according to the article
237 of the Treaty of Rome that required the aplicant states to be European, as the
main article of the Treaty that founded the European Community.
Taking the Bhabhaian approach to hybridity as one of the main tenets of
postcolonial nationalism, this dissertation argues that the Kingdom of Morocco’s
relations with the European Community in 1987 should go beyond why it applied to
be one of its members that was already explained by different economic and political
reasons. Instead, it offers a cultural aspect defined by postcoloniality that analyzes
how Kingdom of Morocco asserted its Europeanness, and how it explained to the
European Commission that it was a European state according to the Treaty of Rome.
Framing Morocco’s colonial status between 1912 and 1956, this dissertation
examines how Morocco that constructed its national identity both during and after
colonialism against Europe (against France) due to European colonialism (the French
Protectorate) added Europeanness into this national identity in its postolonial period,
by claiming that Moroccan nation and state together are European, with King Hassan
II’s membership application to the European Community.
Accordingly, this dissertation argues that Morocco’s 1987 membership
application to the European Community is the instrumentalization of hybridity that
was created by the French among Moroccan locals between 1912 and 1956 by King
Hassan II, in the postcolonial Moroccan national identity to claim that Morocco was
European according to the article 237 of the Treaty of Rome. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | İpek, Volkan | en_US |
dc.format.extent | xiii, 293 leaves | en_US |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | Morocco | en_US |
dc.subject | European Community | en_US |
dc.subject | Postcolonial Nationalism | en_US |
dc.subject | Hybridity | en_US |
dc.subject | Culture | en_US |
dc.subject | National Identity | en_US |
dc.subject.lcc | DT325.4 .I64 2015 | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Morocco--Politics and government. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | European Union--Membership. | en_US |
dc.title | The King's European Morocco : a postcolonial approach to Morocco's quest to become a European Community member | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.department | Department of Political Science and Public Administration | en_US |
dc.publisher | Bilkent University | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.embargo.release | 2018-06-05 | |