Turkey''s Accession to the European Union : An Unusual Candidacy

This book examines the complexity of the issues pertaining to Turkey's prospective EU membership. It presents several, often divergent, accounts of the political, security and socio-economic dimensions of the entire process.

Introduction; Enlargement Governance and the Union''s Integration Capacity; The EU-Turkey Negotiations: Between the Siege of Vienna and the Reconquest of Constantinople; Turkey and Europe: The Importance of Predictability; Tertium Datur: Turkey''s Application for EU Membership; Europeanisation and Its Discontents: Turkey, 1959-2007; The European Union, Islam and Turkey: Delineating Europe''s Soft Power; Turkey and European Security; Is Turkey Still an Asset for European Security?; The Emergence of New Security Threats to the EU and Their Implications for Eu-Turkey Relations: The Case of Illegal Migration; How Can the European Union Transform the Greek-Turkish Conflict?; Whither Turkey? Greece''s Aegean Options; Greek-Turkish Peace Processes as Autopoietic Systems; Turkey and the Identity of Europe: Contemporary Identity Politics in the European Frontier; The Debate''s Impact on Europe; Imagining the EU in the Turkish Mirror; What Makes Turkish Islam Unique?; The Political Economy of Turkey''s Accession to the EU: A Comparative Analysis.