The Devil is in the ‘Domestic’? European Integration Studies and the Limits of Europeanization in Turkey

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsPapers in this special issue come from two workshops: ‘Europeanisation Research and Turkey—Volume 2: Different Facades, Multiple Contributions’ organized by Süleyman Demirel University at Isparta, Turkey in May 2012 and ‘The Devil is in the “Domestic”?: European Integration Studies and the Limits of Europeanisation in Turkey’, organized jointly by BTS-DAAD and the Centre for European Studies of the Middle East Technical University (METU) at Ankara, Turkey in December 2012, respectively. The editors would like to thank Atila Eralp, Murat Ali Dulupçu, Murat Okçu, Tolga Bölükbaşı, Zeki Sarıgil, Saime Özçürümez and Daria Isachenko for organizing and chairing these events. The issue benefited greatly from the feedback of 14 anonymous referees of the contributions here, which the editors truly appreciate.Additional informationNotes on contributorsBaşak AlpanBaşak Alpan is an Assistant Professor and a Lecturer in European Politics and Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests include European studies, culture and identity dimensions of European integration, discourse theory, European football and the construction of intercultural attitudes through football.Address for correspondence: Department of Political Science and Public Administration/Centre for European Studies, Middle East Technical University, Üniversiteler Mah. Dumlupınar Bulv. No. 1, 06800 Çankaya-Ankara, Turkey. Email: balpan@metu.edu.trThomas DiezThomas Diez is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Institute for Political Science, University of Tübingen. He studies international relations theory, European integration and conflict transformation and is best known for his contributions to the debate on the EU's normative power. Books he has edited or co-edited include The EU and the Cyprus Conflict: Modern Conflict, Postmodern Union, European Integration Theory, The European Union and Border Conflicts, Cyprus: A Conflict at the Crossroads and An Introduction to International Relations Theory (Perspectives and Themes). In 2009, Diez was awarded the 2009 Anna Lindh Award for contributions to the analysis of European foreign and security policy.Address for correspondence: Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science, Melanchthonstr. 36, 72074 Tübingen, Germany. Email: thomas.diez@uni-tuebingen.de