Explaining EU-Turkey Cooperation on Syrian Refugee Crisis in 2015-2016 : An Issue-Linkage Persuasion
This paper attempts to examine EU-Turkey cooperation in 2015-2016 concerning the recent Syrian refugee crisis by employing a concept of issue-linkage persuasion. As a massive influx of Syrian refugees into European countries in 2015 had triggered many European Union (EU) members to suspend Schengen and Dublin system unilaterally, it has recently caused the EU to rethink substantially its common strategy to handle the crisis. The EU’s paradox was whether it was able to break a dichotomy between providing refugee protection and defending its socio-political security through securitization. One of the effective solutions to the crisis, however, was to contain the refugees in the third countries and Turkey was designed by the EU-Turkey agreement in March 2016 to take such a role as an EU’s strategic partner. Nonetheless, the cooperation between the two parties has not emerged as a given. It has been subject to a strategic interaction, which can be explained from a game-theoretical perspective. In particular, a suasion game demonstrates that an asymmetric power between two actors (North-South relations) plays an important role in determining a payoff structure. As a rule, equilibrium is always in favor of the powerful player, that is, while the EU’s strategy was preferable to pass the buck, Turkey was pressured to contain a huge number of the refugees on its soil. In this regard, it is argued in the paper that an issue-linkage persuasion has been used in this case, when the situation fell into a negative-sum game, as a significant tool in fostering EU-Turkey cooperation on the Syrian refugee crisis by providing mutual incentives, side-payments, and private interests. Once the EU manages to solve the crisis on its soil, it is likely that the EU-Turkey relations will swing back to its contentious politics
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[2021]
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Authors: | Koma, Anwar |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Flüchtlinge | Refugees | Syrien | Syria |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (15 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | In: Hatyai Academic Journal, 2018 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2018 erstellt |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241238
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