Book Review: B. Temel (ed.) The Great Catalyst: European Union project and lessons from Greece and Turkey, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014
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This collective volume is a valuable contribution to the literature on the interaction between Turkey as a candidate country and Greece as a Member State, and the EU. Eleven Turkish and eight Greek scholars provide informative and timely essays on the experience of the two states regarding different aspects of European integration. The individual contributions show how Turkish elites tried to instrumentalize EU-Turkey’s relations in order to reform the domestic governance system (p.169). The contributions anticipate, to some extent, the subsequent outbreaks of authoritarianism in Turkey. On the other hand, by taking a snapshot of the Greek economy in the midst of recession, the book takes a gloomier perspective on Greece's prospects within the EMU. Therefore, based on recent performance, euro area macroeconomic conditionalities appear to be seen as a burden that Greece should be relieved of if it is to respond to the increasing=g pressure of Turkey.
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Antonopoulos, E. (2018). Book Review: B. Temel (ed.) The Great Catalyst: European Union project and lessons from Greece and Turkey, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014. Perifereia, (6-7), 99–100. https://doi.org/10.12681/rp.17010
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