Armand Clesse & Seyfi Tashan Turkey and the European Union: 2004 and beyond

Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies 16,5 x 24 cm 350 pag. € 32,50 ISBN 978 90 3619 162 3 NUR 740 2005

This publication as well as the conference which preceded it in Luxembourg are the product of a fruitful cooperation between the Turkish Foreign Policy Institute of Ankara and the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies. The book is published as the the debate about the usefulness and the likelihood of Turkish membership in the EU is raging. The editors hope that it will constitute a modest and sufficiently balanced contribution to this debate. Table of contents Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Part 1: Conference proceedings 1. Introduction 2. The relations between the EU and Turkey until 2003 3. Political, economic, strategic and cultural arguments in favour of and against Turkish accession 4. The possible development of the relationship between the EU and Turkey after the enlargement of 2004. Aims and limits of the European integration process 5. Conference participants Part 2: Essays Historical perspective Christopher Brewin: Association status and the path to membership Oktay Aksoy: The relations between the EU and Turkey until 2003 Atila Eralp: Turkey and the enlargement process of the EU Political and strategic perspective Resat Arim: Political and strategic arguments in favour of Turkey's accession Kemal Kirisci: Turkey, the EU and the Middle East: Should Turks come from Mars or Venus? Seyfi Tashan: The European Union's new neighbourhood policy and its implications for Turkey Mario Hirsch: Turkey and Europe: The hidden agenda Economic perspective Orhan Morgil: EU-Turkey economic relations and prospects in the perspective of accession Adrian Pabst: Beyond the neo-liberal impasse - the EU, Turkey and the opportunity to reconfigure pan-European integration Cultural perspective Duygu B. Sezer: Turkish identity, a test for Europe's soul? Mouna Mejri: Turkish membership of the EU: The centrality of 'cultural difference' Charles Jenkins: Turkey's Kurdish issue Andrea K. Riemer: The Kurds - a critical appraisal Murat Somer: Ethnic Kurds: Rival and compatible definitions of idenities, and Turkey's integration with the EU Bestel/Order

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