The European Union, Turkish Limitations, and American Disinterest
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Irving Louis Horowitz
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.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Introduction
- Special Issue: The Politics of Presidential Selection
- Article
- The Iowa Caucuses, 1972-2008: A Eulogy
- Handicapping the 2008 Nomination Races: An Early Winter Prospectus
- Political Parties in Rough Weather
- Don't Blame Primary Voters for Polarization
- Selecting Presidential Nominees by National Primary: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
- Presidential Nominating Conventions: Past, Present and Future
- On the Air: Advertising in 2004 as a Window on the 2008 Presidential General Election
- Commentary
- The European Union, Turkish Limitations, and American Disinterest
- Review
- Glory Days: A Review of Bruce Miroff's The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party
- The Heart of the Problem: A Book Review of The Liberals' Moment by Bruce Miroff
- Response or Comment
- Response to Kenneth Baer and Elaine Kamarck
- Response to Bruce Miroff
