POLITICAL QUARTERLY

POLITICAL QUARTERLY

THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF TURKEY'S ACCESSION TO EUROPEAN UNION AND IMPEDIMENTS AHEAD

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
1 Professor, Political Science Department, University of Tehran
2 M.A. Student, International Relation, University of Tehran
Abstract
During recent decades, Turkey has attempted to join EU and introduce itself as a
European country at international system; however, in spite of 10 years since official
introduction of this country as a candidate for joining to EU on behalf of European
countries, attempts of Turkey were faced with failure. It is attempted in the
following article that by benefiting Local Integration Theory of Eshpigel and
Cantori besides studying impediments ahead of Turkey for joining to EU, ability of
Integration of this country with European countries is studied within framework of
EU and this question is answered, what is the main reason of prolonging processing
of joining Turkey to EU? What are the effective factors on process of joining Turkey
to EU?
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Volume 42, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
Winter 2012
Pages 107-123

  • Receive Date 14 November 2011
  • Revise Date 23 September 2013
  • Accept Date 11 March 2012