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Following the AKP's victory in the 2002 general elections, 'conservative democracy' has emerged as a trademark in Turkish politics, focusing on cosmopolitanism and European integration. In the late 2000s, the party's favourite notion was 'advanced democracy', this time underlining Turkey's leadership claim in the region and displaying a more critical approach to 'Europe'. In this paper, I aim to show how different narratives on 'Europe' emerged within the context of these empty signifiers. The paper claims that the difference in the two narratives on 'Europe' in two different periods does not point to a complete and fully fledged de-Europeanisation trend.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, an extensive degree of academic research has been echoing one popular opinion, which is 'Turkey is back to the Balkans'. These studies have been scrutinising the complicated role of Turkey in the Balkans, usually drawing upon the use of soft power by the former. This impact in the region remained intact during the 2010s, although the overall Turkish foreign policy in the 2010s has been highly securitised and de-Europeanised, losing its soft power character that had been its trademark starting from early 2000s. In this regard, this paper aims to decipher different dimensions of Turkey's foreign policy in the Balkans through a more general exploration of the de-Europeanisation of Turkish foreign policy in the 2010s. Through more than 80 semi-structured interviews, which were conducted between 2016-2020, with political actors, diplomats, religious leaders, scholars and journalists in Turkey and in the Balkans, we address the question of whether the divergence Turkish foreign policy from a soft power perspective and its concomitant de-Europeanisation tendency had been crystallised in its policy towards the Balkans within the context of the 2010s.

Introduction, Alpan and Sonntag -- 2. Demographic Trends in Ten Major European Leagues, Özgehan Senyuva and Ramon Llopis-Goig -- Part 1. Classical Stadium Politics in the Age of Fascism 3. The Stadio Mussolini or the Avatars of Football Stadiums, Paul Dietschy -- 4. What's in a Name? The City of Stuttgart and the Toponymical Journey of its Football Stadium, Albrecht Sonntag -- Part 2. Contemporary Case Studies -- 5. The Stade de France and Wembley as Social Space: a Tale of Two Stadiums, Hugh Dauncey -- 6. The Global Branding of Camp Nou, Hunter Shobe -- 7. Spatial Aspects of Identity Differentiation – Stadiums in Bosnia, Özgür Dirim Özkan -- 8. Pitch Fever. Swedish Football and the Grass Dilemma, Katarzyna Herd -- Part 3. Protest Cultures and Crowd Control -- 9. Fandom as Contention: Çarşı Fans in Gezi Protests in Turkey, Ömer Turan and Burak Özçetin -- 10. Resistance Identities and Right-Wing Tendencies: The Politics of Polish Football Stadiums, Radoslav Kossakowski -- 11. Stadia as the Sites of 'The Political' : The Case of the Passolig in Turkey, Başak Alpan and Tanil Bora -- 12. The Football Stadium as a Space for Protest – Female Supporters in Persepolis, Caroline Azad -- 13. The Post-Pandemic Football Stadium, Jean-Michel Roux, Natalia R. de Melo, Cristiane de S. Duarte, Elson M. Pereira.

The UEFA European football championship was the first European mega-event to take place in post-socialist Europe. Taking this as a departure point, this volume focuses on football as a realm of constructing and negotiating identities using rich ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth media analysis. Nina Szogs, University of Vienna, Austria Ozgehan Senyuva, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Yagmur Nuhrat, Kadir Has University, Turkey Micha? Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Ma?gorzata Zofia Kowalska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland