Global Fault Lines and Turkey's Regional Integration Policies: A Political-Economic Model Suggestion

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to measure prospects for Turkey's regionalization efforts in its immediate geography with various political economic fault lines. For this purpose it has proposed an interacting two-legged-political (establishment of stable peace) and economic (interdependence)-regionalization/integration model. In the framework of our model it comparatively analyzes Turkey's regionalization moves such as the EU the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) countries. Considering levels of political-economic relations with those groupings it concludes that without presence of solid political ground of regional stable peace none of Turkey's regionalization moves do have any prospects to reach advanced stages of integration/regionalization.