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Insight Turkey > 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.


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Articles


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The European Union Dilemma of the Kurds: High Support for Membership despite Lack of Sufficient Trust
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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


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The Nationalities of Europe: The Growth of National Ideologies
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