The Turkish Drawbridge: European Integration and the Cultural Economics of National Planning.

DÖŞEMECI, MEHMET

This article examines the relations between the Turkish State Planning Organisation (SPO) and the Western economic system during the first two decades of national planning in Turkey (1960–1980). It traces how the SPO, established with the guidance and full endorsement of international economic institutions came to vehemently oppose Turkish participation in one of their pillars: the European Economic Community (EEC), the predecessor of the European Union. It argues that the shift in the SPO's world-view was founded upon two distinct understandings of the Turkish nation and its development, situates these understandings within the intellectual history of Turkey's past ambivalence towards the West, and, in doing so, provides a historical case-study of the ideological clash between modernisation and dependency theories of development.

EUROPE; TURKEY; CENTRAL economic planning; EUROPEAN Economic Community; INTELLECTUAL history; NATIONALISM; FOREIGN relations of Turkey; TURKISH politics & government, 1960-1980; EUROPE-Turkey relations; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century; INTERNATIONAL economic relations

Contemporary European History, 2013, Vol 22, Issue 4, p627

0960-7773

Academic Journal

10.1017/S0960777313000398