Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral), Columbia Univeristy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Political Parties; Turkish State Institutions; European Organizations; Introduction; The Civilizational and Nationalist Logics; Matters of Time and Space: Why 1959-1980? Why the EEC?; Domestic Context; International Context: The EEC, Greece, and NATO; The EEC and the Battle over Turkey's Past; European Identity and the "Turkish Question"; Situating the History of Turkish-EEC Relations; 1 Joining Civilization (1923-1963); The Civilizational Logic; Atatürk and the Standards of Civilization; The Theoretical Structure of the Civilizational Logic.
The Civilizational Logic and the Turkish EliteThe Civilizational Logic and the EEC; From Application to Coup; The National Unity Committee and the Common Market; Europe Speaks Back; 12 September 1963; Kafka's Parable: Before the Law; 2 The TP of the Iceberg (1963-1968); Modernist Nationalism and the Civilizational Logic; Civilization and the Modular Nation-State; The 1930s and the Universal Uniqueness of the Turkish Nation; Postwar Revisionism; Atatürk Revised: TP and the Reformulation of Turkish Nationalism; The WPT in Context; The WPT and the War(s) of Independence.
The WPT's Foreign Policy and the EEC3 Voices from a Threatened Nation (1968-1980); The Institutional and Epistemic Birth of the Nationalist Logic; Privatization of Nationalism; Foreign Policy and Turkish Public Opinion; Economy, Ideology, and the EEC; The Existential Present of the Turkish Nation; The Three Tongues of the Nation; Developing the State; The Nation-People; Westernization and Its (Dis)contents; The Nation as Recovered Erasure; 4 The Additional Protocol; The Emergence of the Anti-EEC Movements; Treason, Treason, Everywhere!; Instituting Turkey: The SPO and the TGNA.
Negotiating the Additional Protocol: The State Planning OrganizationPlanning the Globe Over; Ratifying the Additional Protocol: The Turkish Grand National Assembly; Erbakan's First Interpellation, May 1970; The Opposition Widens; The TGNA and the Nationalist Logic; Historical Constellations; And Then the Coup; 5 Intervention, Invasion, Isolation (1971-1974); Martial CPR: Resuscitating the Additional Protocol; Hard Lessons Abroad, Crisis at Home; A Changing Europe; The Invasion of Cyprus; The Makings of an Organic Crisis; 6 From Periphery to Core (1974-1980); The Great Westernization Debate.
The Nationalist Right's Embrace of IslamThe National Economy of the Islamic Right; Turkish-Islamic Synthesis; Synthesis at Work: Two Rightist Critiques of Europe and the EEC; Ecevit's Ambivalence toward the West; Resituating Party Politics; The Radical Right; The Emergence of Ecevit; Impasse, Icing Over, Interpellation; A Left-Islamic Platform: The RPP-NSP Coalition of 1974; Hegemonic Consolidation: The Nationalist Logic and the Wheels of the State; Erkmen's Application and Subsequent Felling; Conclusion; Synthesis by Castration: atatürkism and the 1980 Military Coup.

Debating Turkish Modernity explores how Turks spoke about the prospect of joining the European Economic Community between 1959 and 1980.