Book contents
- Turkey–West Relations
- Turkey–West Relations
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Framework of Intra-alliance Opposition
- 2 Turkish Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans
- 3 The Turkish Veto over the EU–NATO Security Exchange
- 4 The EU–Turkey Deal on Refugees
- 5 Turkey’s Energy Policies
- 6 Turkish Rapprochement with Russia in Security
- 7 Turkey’s Foreign Policy on Syria and Iraq
- Conclusion: Turkey and the West – What Next?
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - The Turkish Veto over the EU–NATO Security Exchange
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2019
- Turkey–West Relations
- Turkey–West Relations
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Framework of Intra-alliance Opposition
- 2 Turkish Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans
- 3 The Turkish Veto over the EU–NATO Security Exchange
- 4 The EU–Turkey Deal on Refugees
- 5 Turkey’s Energy Policies
- 6 Turkish Rapprochement with Russia in Security
- 7 Turkey’s Foreign Policy on Syria and Iraq
- Conclusion: Turkey and the West – What Next?
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
While the new security environment necessitates an enhanced dialogue between the EU and NATO, since 2004 Turkey opposes NATO’s sharing of sensitive intelligence information with non-NATO EU members that did not sign a bilateral agreement with NATO (i.e. the Republic of Cyprus) on protecting classified information. Through its NATO membership, Turkey constitutes a veto player in the inter-institutional relations between the EU and NATO and engages in boundary-testing strategy using active diplomacy, entangling diplomacy, and issue-linkage bargaining. Turkey engages in boundary challenging through strategic noncooperation and inter-institutional balancing against the EU. The veto gives Turkey a voice against the EU and helps Turkey pursue long-term interests, such as increasing its leverage against the EU in its accession negotiations, resolving the Cyprus problem to its advantage, and getting fully integrated into the European Defence Agency (EDA). The chapter concludes that as long as the uncertainties around Turkey’s EU accession and EDA associate membership remain and the Cyprus conflict remains unresolved, Turkey will continue to challenge its boundaries against the EU.
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- Turkey–West RelationsThe Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition, pp. 63 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019