| | | Abbreviations and acronyms | | |
| | | Introduction | | 1 |
| | | Structure of the book 3 | | |
| 1 | | International politics of democratic consolidation: theoretical and conceptual perspectives | | 6 |
| | | Perspectives on democracy and democratic consolidation | | 7 |
| | | Democratic consolidation | | 10 |
| | | International relations and democratization | | 25 |
| | | International human rights | | 33 |
| | | International actors | | 39 |
| | | Conclusions | | 41 |
| 2 | | The nature and impact of EU political conditionality | | 43 |
| | | The origin of EU conditionality | | 44 |
| | | EU conditionality in the Southern European cases | | 44 |
| | | EU conditionality in the Eastern European cases | | 47 |
| | | EU conditionality in the process of change | | 55 |
| | | The EUs instruments for the application of conditionality | | 59 |
| | | The impact of EU conditionality | | 63 |
| | | Conclusions | | 71 |
| 3 | | EU conditionality and democracy in Turkey: the pre-Helsinki period | | 72 |
| | | Turkeys quest for membership and EU conditionality | | 73 |
| | | EU conditionality and the Customs Union | | 77 |
| | | EU conditionality after the Customs Union decision | | 81 |
| | | The impact of EU conditionality in the pre-Helsinki period | | 89 |
| | | Conclusions | | 97 |
| 4 | | EU conditionality and democracy in Turkey: the post-Helsinki period | | 100 |
| | | The emergence of a conditionality mechanism for Turkey | | 104 |
| | | Turkeys response to European conditionality | | 119 |
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