Turkey’s Accession to the European Union

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction

   • Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Nikolaos Tzifakis

   Pages 1-7

3. Enlargement Governance and the Union's Integration Capacity

   • Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Nikolaos Tzifakis

   Pages 9-19

4. The EU-Turkey Negotiations: Between the Siege of Vienna and the Reconquest of Constantinople

   • Julio Crespo MacLennan

   Pages 21-30

5. Turkey and Europe: The Importance of Predictability

   • Diba Nigar Göksel

   Pages 31-44

6. Tertium Datur: Turkey's Application for EU Membership

   • Thomas Silberhorn

   Pages 45-52

7. Europeanisation and Its Discontents: Turkey, 1959–2007

   • Hakan Yilmaz

   Pages 53-64

8. The European Union, Islam and Turkey: Delineating Europe's Soft Power

   • Aristotle Tziampiris

   Pages 65-74

9. Turkey and European Security

   • Thanos Dokos

   Pages 75-85

10. Is Turkey Still an Asset for European Security?

    • Can Buharali

    Pages 87-93

11. The Emergence of New Security Threats to the EU and Their Implications for EU–Turkey Relations: The Case of Illegal Migration

    • Özgür Ünal Eriş

    Pages 95-106

12. How Can the European Union Transform the Greek–Turkish Conflict?

    • Panayotis J. Tsakonas

    Pages 107-120

13. Whither Turkey? Greece's Aegean Options

    • Kostas Ifantis

    Pages 121-132

14. Greek–Turkish Peace Processes as Autopoietic Systems

    • Eugenia Vathakou

    Pages 133-146

15. Turkey and the Identity of Europe: Contemporary Identity Politics on the European Frontier

    • Dimitris Keridis

    Pages 147-158

16. The Debate's Impact on Europe

    • Ranier Fsadni

    Pages 159-169

17. Imagining the EU in the Turkish Mirror

    • Ali Ihsan Aydin

    Pages 171-182

18. What Makes Turkish Islam Unique?

    • Mustafa Akyol

    Pages 183-193

19. The Political Economy of Turkey's Accession to the EU: A Comparative Analysis

    • Pantelis Sklias

    Pages 195-209

20. Back Matter

    Pages 211-215

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European views on Turkey’s membership in the EU have been split between those in support of its full integration and those advocating a privileged partnership. To the extent that many of the latter proposals imply that Turkey will be partially integrated within Europe in certain areas, the question of Turkey’s accession is probably not about ‘if’, but about ‘how much’ integration there will be within the Union’s structures. The purpose of this book is not to offer a definitive response to this question. The book aims instead to examine the complexity of the issues pertaining to Turkey’s prospective EU membership by presenting several, often divergent, accounts of the political, security and socio-economic dimensions of the entire process. The book provides a forum for an exchange of views among distinguished scholars and researchers from different national backgrounds in order to contribute to the ongoing public discussion of Turkey’s accession.

• Sophisticated, informative and refreshing in its argumentation, the book provides an excellent overview of the complexities of Turkey’s accession to the EU membership.

Professor Mustafa Aydin, TOBB University of Economics and Technology

• A refreshing view from the European periphery, an original mirror of the Union's central challenges.

Professor Georges Prevelakis, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne

• EU enlargement
• European Integration
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• European security
• Governance
• Islam
• Turkey
• politics

From the reviews: “Turkey’s Accession to the European Union brings together a set of perspectives on Turkey-European Union (EU) relations, as viewed by Turks, Greeks and other European scholars. The professed goal of the volume is to undertake ‘a comprehensive and multidimensional approach to the question of Turkey’s admission into European structures.’ It does fulfill that goal to a large extent, covering a wide range of issues, including security, identity, economy, institutional structures, and (im)migration. … the overall scheme remains quite accessible to the lay reader.” (Asli Toksabay Esen, New Perspectives on Turkey, Issue 40, 2009) “Turkey’s Accession to the European Union is more like a journey through a well-trodden and familiar terrain. … draws attention to political risks and benefits of Turkish membership as perceived by both sides, the role of identity and religion in the shaping of those perceptions, and the role or security considerations in the policy debate on how to integrate Turkey into European institutional frameworks. … aimed at readers who are new to the topic and policy makers and practitioners who are under stringent time constraints.” (Mehmet Ugur, The Political Quarterly, Vol. 81 (1), 2010)

• Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy, Athens, Greece

  Constantine Arvanitopoulos

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