Cenap Cakmak is professor of international law and politics at Anadolu University’s Department of International Relations.Ali Onur Özçelik is associate professor and a full-time lecturer in the International Relations Department at Eskisehir Osmangazi University.

• Introduction by Ali Onur Özçelik and Cenap Çakmak Chapter 1: Expectations, Benchmarks and Tensions: Exploring Turkey’s Political U-Turn from Brussels by Anthony Costello Chapter 2: The Rule of Law as “Arrested Development”: The Turkish Experiment with the Political Condition by Mustafa YaylaliChapter 3: The Collapse of Turkey’s Three-Pillar Engagement Policy as a Part of Reversed Third Wave by Devrim Sahin and Ahmet SözenChapter 4: A Search for Effective Governance at the Cost of Turkey’s EU Democratization Process by Devrim Sahin and Ahmet Sözen Chapter 5: Turkey on the Frontline between the West and the Middle East: A Buffer State or More? by Devrim Sahin and Ahmet SözenChapter 6: EU Accession Process and Women’s Rights in Turkey: The Effects on Family Values and Culture by Cenap Çakmak and Ali Onur ÖzçelikChapter 7: The EU’s Civil Society Conditionality in Turkey: Applying a Gramscian Lens to Procedural Diffusion by Sinem BalChapter 8: EU Conditionality in the Europeanization of Turkish Env

This volume offers a lucid and insightful analysis of Europeanization and de-Europeanization processes in Turkey in a myriad of policy fields ranging from rule of law, foreign policy, democratization, women’s rights to civil society, environmental policy, migration and development aid. It problematizes most of the established discourses on Europeanization and goes beyond the straightjacket of conditionality by fully engaging in both internal and international factors shaping the impact of EU-led processes in Turkey. It also presents a well-balanced analysis of the current stalemate in Turkey-EU relations as well as potential areas of cooperation between the two. This book stands out in the crowded literature of Europeanization and Turkey-EU relations.