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Transforming Conflicts on EU Borders: the Case of Greek‐Turkish Relations*
Author(s) -
RUMELILI BAHAR
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00705.x
Subject(s) - turkish , identification (biology) , affect (linguistics) , political science , conflict resolution , political economy , sociology , law , communication , biology , linguistics , philosophy , botany
Drawing on the trajectory of Greek‐Turkish conflicts, this article demonstrates how the EU's bordering practices affect the conflict resolution capacity of the EU on its external borders. Close institutional relations and positive identification with outsider states diffuse the logic of the security community. On the other hand, hard EU borders incapacitate the EU from having a positive influence.