Global Fault Lines and Turkey’s Regional Integration Policies: A Political-Economic Model Suggestion Cover Image

Küresel Fay Hatları ve Türkiye’nin Bölgesel Bütünleşme Politikaları: Siyasi Ekonomik Model Önerisi
Global Fault Lines and Turkey’s Regional Integration Policies: A Political-Economic Model Suggestion

Author(s): Serhan Oksay, Emre İşeri, Nihat Çelik
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Political economy
Published by: Gazi Akademik Bakış
Keywords: Political Economy; Regionalization; Integration; Middle East; Eurasia; Turkey;

Summary/Abstract: The main objective of this study is to measure prospects for Turkey’s regionalization efforts in its immediate geography with various political economic fault lines. For this purpose, it has proposed an interacting two-legged - political (establishment of “stable peace”) and economic (interdependence) - regionalization/ integration model. In the framework of our model, it comparatively analyzes Turkey’s regionalization moves such as the EU, the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) countries. Considering levels of political-economic relations with those groupings, it concludes that without presence of solid political ground of regional “stable peace”, none of Turkey’s regionalization moves do have any prospects to reach advanced stages of integration/regionalization.

  • Issue Year: 10/2017
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 169-196
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Turkish