The Clash of Security Identities: The Question of Turkey's Membership in the European Union

Autumn 2002 and interdependent character of the strategic-security issues in Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Eurasia required a much closer relationship between the Eu and Turkey than the Eu's Luxembourg summit foresaw in 1997.However, the reader should be aware that there is a huge difference between candidacy status and full EU membership.Even if the Eu had acted geopolitically when it approved Turkey's candidacy, that would not change the argument of this article.2 lan Manners, 'Normative power Europe: a contradiction in terms?