Modifying the Strategy

Abstract

The aim of a socialization process is for those who are being socialized to adopt and internalize the norm set to such an extent that external pressure (e.g., conditions and criteria) is no longer needed to ensure compliance (Flockhart, 2005: 16). By implication, the “success of socialization depends on the socializee’s domestic environment/politics and its effect on its foreign policy style and substance” (Schimmelfennig, 2000: 111). It is thus expected that successful socialization will result in some level of behavioral change on the part of the socializee (i.e., Turkey) vis-à-vis the socializers (i.e., Greece and the European Union [EU]), not to mention change in its attitudes and beliefs.³⁸⁹