Turkish civil society, normative power Europe, and appeals to restore the EU's transformative power.
This paper examines the evolving role of civil society in sustaining the European Union's (EU) normative influence amid the Union's diminishing capacity to drive change in the European periphery, with a particular focus on Türkiye. As the EU's transformative agendas wane and its credibility as a nor...
| Published in: | Journal of Southeast European & Black Sea Studies Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 251 - 279 |
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Jun2026
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