Turkey and the EU

Harun Arikan is Head of the Department of International Relations at Kahramanmaras Sütçü Imam University, Turkey.

'A timely updating of a book which made an impressive contribution and became essential reading for anyone who wants to understand both sides of the Turkish accession debate. This book goes way beyond the usual catalogue of Turkish complaints and provides a cool, detached and extremely convincing presentation of the Turkish position which is not readily available elsewhere.' John Redmond, Jean Monnet Chair in the Political Economy of European Integration, University of Birmingham, UK 'Utilising an impressive array of sources, there is practically no dimension of the Turkey-EU reltiaonship that the author does not consider.' The Cyprus Review

• Contents: Introduction: an alternative approach to traditional perspectives of EU-Turkish relations; Conceptualizing the EU's enlargement policy: motivations, conditions and instruments for EU's enlargement policy; The EU-Turkey association: a flawed instrument?; Economic instruments of the EU's policy for Turkey in a comparative perspective with the CEECs; The political aspects of the EU's policy towards Turkey in the context of a new European political order; The Greek factor: the ultimate obstacle to Turkish membership?; Security aspects of the EU's relations with Turkey; Containment policy reconsidered: preparing the ground for membership in the long run?; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.