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Saudi Arabia’s Game of ThronesPRINCETON – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has just replaced the 57-year-old Muhammad bin Nayif with his 31-year-old son, Mohammed bin Salman, as crown prince, completing a process of power centralization that began with Salman’s accession to the throne in January 2015.
Given the tremendous opportunities present in the current circumstances, the advantages for Europe of Turkey’s accession should be obvious.
Europe today is both larger and different compared to the Europe of 1999, when Turkey was invited to begin the accession process.
Today’s Turkey has also changed dramatically since 1999, both politically and economically, and this has much to do with the EU accession process.
Now the accession negotiations have started, and 35 “chapters” – covering everything from agriculture to energy, competition, environment, employment, social policy, and beyond – must be opened.
In 1999, Turkey did not want to become an accession candidate, because its leaders thought that the conditions would be too tough.
Moreover, while the recent state of emergency was a serious setback, NATO membership, unlike EU accession, is still within reach.
At the same time, Turkey moved decisively onto the path of political and administrative reform in order to start EU accession negotiations.
On the international level, Serbia – with strong support from Russia – is actively engaged in blocking Kosovo’s accession to the United Nations and other global or regional organizations.
Only a unified EU position, combined with the knowledge that EU accession for Serbia is unthinkable as long as this conflict has not been fully resolved, may over time lead to a change of attitude on the part of both ordinary Serbs and their government.
European leaders gravely miscalculated at the start of Turkey’s EU accession talks, believing that close ties would make the Middle East’s conflicts Europe’s problem.
China’s past trade liberalization, following its accession to the World Trade Organization 17 years ago, indicates that such a move would not lead to a spike in unemployment, as long as the Chinese labor market remains sufficiently flexible.
In order to prepare for EU accession, Turkey has undertaken vast and serious legal, political, and economic reforms.
The looming accession process will be even more painful, but Turkey’s people are firmly resolved to face this challenge.
In 2002, for example, the CDF focused on the impact of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization – a precursor to a spectacular surge of export-led growth.
Turkey thus argues that the charge of genocide is designed to besmirch Turkey’s honor and impede its progress towards EU accession.
Even Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, under increasing EU pressure as accession negotiations are due to begin this October, has agreed to an impartial study by academic historians, although he has reiterated his belief that the genocide never occurred.
Accession talks with the European Union had not begun;Turkey wanted an oil pipeline from Azerbaijan; the resolution condemning the Armenian genocide had not gathered steam around the world;Turkey’s economy was not in crisis; and Georgia-Russia tensions were not in free-fall.
Then, in 2004, with the beginning of EU accession talks, Turkey had ample cause to explain to Azerbaijan why improved relations with Armenia were inevitable.
Hopes for political reform rest on the possibility that Xi’s second term will see the accession to top leadership of reformers like Politburo member Wang Yang and Vice President Li Yuanchao.
But, in the last few years, the Europeans, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, have de facto slammed the door to European Union accession in Turkey’s face.
More important, as with China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, which required substantial reforms, fulfilling the conditions for joining the SDR promises to speed progress toward full capital-account liberalization – and thus toward a fully convertible renminbi.
Consider China’s accession to the World Trade Organization.
Reform of a country’s political and economic institutions and its accession to the EU and NATO usually go hand in hand, because the prospect of membership makes painful decisions electorally acceptable.
With Croatia’s accession at the beginning of July, the EU now consists of 28 member states, each of which has its own particular set of special interests pressing for trade promotion or protection, based on comparative advantage, history, and raw domestic political power.
But support for enlargement is fading everywhere, right on the brink of accession.
Ukraine needs the discipline of the accession process – and thus the promise of EU membership – if reforms are to be implemented effectively.
So, when Yeltsin’s American-style democratization of the 1990’s failed to bring “orderly” capitalism instantly, Putin on his accession imposed a restoration of state “order,” as if a stable political or economic system demanded a fusing of the Soviet past with the Orthodox Church and Mother Russia imagery.
The tariff is fully consistent with a special arrangement negotiated at the time of China’s accession to the WTO, which allows the US to impose temporary protection when its markets are “disrupted” by Chinese exports.
Even though actual enlargement of the eurozone remains in the relatively distant future - the earliest possible date being January 2007 - the accession countries must prepare their entry strategies well in advance.
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