The European Union, Turkish Limitations, and American Disinterest

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is threefold: First, to note an unspoken, but obvious fact. The European Union is a living organism that functions with relative success at several levels: legal, economic and monetary in particular. Second, the threat to the EU is from its very success, a desire to overreach natural and functional boundaries by including nation-states with profoundly different structures ands goals. Third, this paper seeks to awaken the policy making bodies in North America to the emergence of regional force in most of Europe that is by varying degrees complementary to US interests and at the same time competitive to the present notion of hegemony. The EU along with the US illustrates the power of bipolarity in the West. The issue of Turkish entrance indicates the limitations of such a condition.

Recommended Citation

Horowitz, Irving Louis (2008) "The European Union, Turkish Limitations, and American Disinterest," The Forum: Vol. 5 : Iss. 4, Article 8.
DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1211
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol5/iss4/art8