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Negotiating Europe: the politics of religion and the prospects for Turkish accession

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2006

ELIZABETH SHAKMAN HURD
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Abstract

This article examines the cultural basis of European opposition to Turkish accession to the European Union (EU). Most observers depict the cultural and religious dimensions of the European debate over Turkish accession as a disagreement between those who see Europe as a Christian ‘club’ and those open to a more religiously pluralistic European identity. However, polls suggest that cultural and religiously based doubts about Turkish accession resonate with a much larger proportion of the European population than those who publicly defend the idea of an exclusivist ‘Christian’ Europe. Both secularists and Christian exclusivists (‘traditionalists’) express hesitations about Turkish membership:

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of International Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 401 - 418
Copyright
2006 British International Studies Association

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