"Can Turkey Serve as Europe's Bridge to the Muslim World?
The question of whether to integrate Turkey into the European Union requires a balancing of costs and benefits across Europe's entire portfolio of political, economic, and security interests. Expanding the Union to include a state that would be among its largest, poorest, and furthest to the East would clearly have a wide range of consequences. In this post, I will argue that Turkey's inclusion in the EU is unlikely to make it a model of Islamic democracy for the Arab world to emulate nor will it necessarily help Europe to achieve its foreign policy objectives in the Middle East."
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