Re-scaling and Globalizing EU-Turkey Bilateral Relations in the Changing Global Political Landscape

Abstract

By putting scale and (re)scaling at the center of its analysis, this paper aims to grasp the scalar process of EU-Turkey relations from historical, political and social perspectives. In doing so, this paper will first overview the existing theories on scale and re-scaling concerning their use in political geography and IR. The second task of this paper will be to examine the relevance of scale in EU relations from historical, political, and social perspectives. In the third part, as a first step, this paper investigates whether the EU and Turkey can redefine and reconstruct a new EU-Turkey space. As a second step, it assesses whether globalizing EU-Turkey relations is possible in new global policy areas such as climate change, sustainable development, and trade & economics.

Keywords

Scale, Scale Process, Climate change, Sustainable development, Trade & economics.

Citation

Emel Parlar Dal and Samiratou Dipama, “Re-scaling and Globalizing EU-Turkey Bilateral Relations in the Changing Global Political Landscape”, International Relations, Vol. 20, No 77, 2023, pp. 35-50, DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.1233973

Affiliations

• Emel PARLAR DAL, Professor, Department of International Relations, Marmara University, Istanbul
• Samiratou DİPAMA, Dr., Faculty of Juridical and Political Sciences, Thomas Sankara University, Ouagadougou