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    Europeanization of foreign policy of a candidate country : an evaluation of Turkey's policy towards Cyprus (2002-2012)
    (2015) Hisarlıoğlu, Fulya
    This thesis has analyzed the dynamics, conditions and determinants of the EU’s transformative impact on a candidate state’s foreign policy. Concerned with the question of how the process of EU accession shapes candidate states’ policies, this case study questions how the machinery of Europeanization, interacting with the national factors and context, works in the transformation of Turkey’s policy towards Cyprus. Inspired by the premises of the studies on Accession Europeanization, the study is designed to understand the impact of the EU external pressures in shaping Turkey’s Cyprus policy between 2002 and 2012. In the light of the time processing analysis, the study suggests that the transformative impact of the EU in Ankara’s approach towards the Cyprus issue in the long-run is best explained by the actorcentered “external incentives model”. In this sense the study concludes that domestic actors’ perception of the EU membership process and the ways in which EU adaptation pressures intervenes in the domestic institutional equilibrium determine EU’s transformative power.
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    Europeanization or not? Turkish foreign policy and the Cyprus problem, 1999-2014
    (2015-02) Uluğ Eryılmaz, Burçin
    This thesis sought to illuminate how the Europeanization process takes place, in the context of enlargement by providing empirical findings regarding the EU’s potential to impact on the foreign policies of candidate countries. By placing Turkish-EU relations and the Cyprus dispute within a theoretical framework of Europeanization, with particular emphasis on the Historical Institutionalist strand of new institutionalism, this dissertation examined how the EU impacted on Turkey’s Cyprus policy between 1999 and 2014. Alongside EU-related factors such as the credibility of both EU conditionality and accession perspective, what accounts for change is predominantly determined by how domestic actors perceive it, and the extent to which domestic power struggles are affected by it.