“…Trust built up through this shared response to the earthquakes generated popular legitimacy for quiet diplomacy that had been in place several months earlier, culminating in Greek support for Turkish candidacy to the EU. Popular legitimacy for bilateral negotiations provided impetus for rapprochement, but without the solid base of diplomacy preceding the earthquake gains are unlikely to have withstood EU membership candidacy negotiations, hung as they were on long-standing tensions surrounding Cyprus (Ker-Lindsay, 2000). Specifi c rights reforms came with the subsequent acceptance by Turkey of nine harmonization conditions required for EU membership.…”
Section: Tipping Points and Change In Turkey Following The Marmaramentioning
Calls from the climate change community and a more widespread concern for human security have reawakened the interest of geographers and others in disaster politics. A legacy of geographical research on the political causes and consequences of disaster is reviewed and built on to formulate a framework for the analysis of post-disaster political space. This is constructed around the notion of a contested social contract. The Marmara earthquake, Turkey, is used to illustrate the framework and provide empirical detail on the multiple scales and time phasing of post-disaster political change. Priorities for a future research agenda in disaster politics are proposed.
“…Trust built up through this shared response to the earthquakes generated popular legitimacy for quiet diplomacy that had been in place several months earlier, culminating in Greek support for Turkish candidacy to the EU. Popular legitimacy for bilateral negotiations provided impetus for rapprochement, but without the solid base of diplomacy preceding the earthquake gains are unlikely to have withstood EU membership candidacy negotiations, hung as they were on long-standing tensions surrounding Cyprus (Ker-Lindsay, 2000). Specifi c rights reforms came with the subsequent acceptance by Turkey of nine harmonization conditions required for EU membership.…”
Section: Tipping Points and Change In Turkey Following The Marmaramentioning
Calls from the climate change community and a more widespread concern for human security have reawakened the interest of geographers and others in disaster politics. A legacy of geographical research on the political causes and consequences of disaster is reviewed and built on to formulate a framework for the analysis of post-disaster political space. This is constructed around the notion of a contested social contract. The Marmara earthquake, Turkey, is used to illustrate the framework and provide empirical detail on the multiple scales and time phasing of post-disaster political change. Priorities for a future research agenda in disaster politics are proposed.
“…For Ethiopia-Eritrea's drought diplomacy and Cuba-U.S.A.'s wide-reaching disaster diplomacy (Glantz, 2000;Kelman, 2012), political prominence did not yield either disaster-related or diplomatic-related success. For the earthquakes in Greece and Turkey, heightened prominence led to a backlash against the diplomacy (Ker-Lindsay, 2000. Conversely, for drought in southern African, the prominence of the diplomacy proceeding irrespective of the drought supported the drought diplomacy and successful disaster risk reduction (Holloway, 2000).…”
Section: Health Interventions As Foreign Policymentioning
“…The Turkish response to the disaster was analogous to the support received after the Izmit earthquake by Greece, which was celebrated in the media as an instance of “disaster diplomacy” (Kelman, ). Despite the simplifications that such a discussion entails about the actual impact of the earthquakes on diplomatic relations (Ker‐Lindsay, ), it is within this discourse that the Izmit earthquake was remembered by the research participants.Dimitra: What has stuck with me from that event, besides the Richters and stuff, is that we were constantly talking about the relationship between Greece and Turkey, that Greece had helped a lot.(Female, 54, middle‐class, FG5)…”
Section: Cosmopolitan Memory: Incorporating the “Other” In Collectivementioning
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