Introduction -- Chapter 1: Greece and the Eurozone -- Chapter 2: Euro and the Economic Crisis in Greece -- Chapter 3: Doomed to Failure -- Chapter 4: Effects of Economic and Monetary Union on the Greek Political System -- Chapter 5: Greece and the European Union -- Chapter 6: Acrobats on a Rope -- Chapter 7: Regularizing the Unregulated? -- Chapter 8: EU Fervor in Turkey1 -- Chapter 9: Alignment of Turkish Securities Market Legislation with the EU Acquis1 -- Chapter 10: Turkey's EU Accession Prospects -- Chapter 11: Political Stability and Economic Expansion -- Chapter 12: Turkey's Kurdish Conflict -- Chapter 13: Trajectory of Corruption in Turkey's EU Venture -- Chapter 14: Cognitive versus Emotional Evaluations as the Foundations of Public Perception of the European Union in Turkey -- Chapter 15: Turkish Democracy during the EU Process -- Chapter 16: Candidacy versus Membership -- Appendix -- About the Contributors
Summary
This book examines the ways by which the European Union impacts economic and political processes in its member and candidate countries. Positive Turkish and negative Greek experiences suggest that the EU functions as a powerful catalyst of political and economic change, if towards various ends
