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Issues | Fault Lines in the European Union: Brexit, Populism and Divergencies
- Summer 2018 / Volume 20, Number 3
Fault Lines in the European Union: Brexit, Populism and Divergencies
Editor's Notes
Editor's Note | Summer 2018
The European Union is a success story. It brought enemy countries together, combined their powers, fostered economic and social development, successfully competed with the American market and also resisted against the Soviet expansionism. As the most developed supranational international organization in modern history, the EU maintained Europe at the center of world politics. With the end of the Cold War, the member states attempted to transform the organization from an economic institution into a political and military structure having the ultimate goal to create a federal state-like institution. However, after unexpected changes in the global system and the emergence of new political actors, the EU began to experience many difficulties.
Commentaries
On June 24, 2018, with a participation rate of more than 85 percent, Turkey elected its President...
While the future of the transatlantic relations has been a serious question of concern since the...
Radical right wing parties have been increasingly effective in challenging and eroding this...
The customs union is still one of the most concrete outcomes of Turkey’s gradual integration to...
The last decade has witnessed the consolidation of the European Union as a cybersecurity actor....
In late-March 2019 the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union. Will Brexit lead...
Articles
Over the past few years, Turkey’s EU membership prospects have further deteriorated amid...
This paper evaluates qualitative and quantitative evidence of Muslims’ European identification in...
Populist discourse is gaining more and more ground in Europe. As evidenced by the growing success...
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) operates under the names of the Democratic Union Party and the...
Today, a number of European states’ policies on religion aim at creating a nationalized Islam. In...
ABSTRACT This article debates the evolution, main purpose and real target of the missile defense...
How people in member and candidate states are oriented toward the European Union –meaning, how...
Since Balkan ethnicities are primarily organized along locally-practiced religious lines,...
Review Article
Islam in the Balkans: Globalization, Europeanization, Localization
The study of European Islam is now experiencing an unprecedented revival. While most of its attention is dedicated to Islam as a minority in ‘Christian’ Europe, countries such as Bosnia and Albania have not lost their importance in Westerner’s eyes, much of it due to the region’s political upheavals, fueled by the ever-lurking danger of terrorism, both in the Balkans and by people of the Balkans abroad. Three of the four books reviewed here discuss Southeastern Europe, and the fourth one is a collection of papers covering the entire spectrum of European Islam.
Book Reviews
During the radical economic transformation taking place over the last decades, which is...
Throughout the history of the Turkish Republic, Republican historians regarded the abolition of...
America in the World is an impressive collection of documents related to United States foreign...
The rather pristine title of this book suggests a study on topics like the shift from...
The sophisticated terror attacks that followed 9/11, the Madrid train station bombing in 2004,...
Gaza, the world’s largest open air prison, could be viewed broadly through the lenses of history,...
The European political landscape has been changing gradually from left to right wing since the...
This volume originates from a conference on ‘Solidarity and its Crisis in the European Union’...
Turkish-American relations are currently witnessing their deepest crisis. Even in 1975 when the...
In The Nationalities of Europe, first published in 1945, Munro Chadwick investigates the issue of...
