From Alternatives, Hans Agne (Stockholm): European Union Conditionality: Coercion or Voluntary Adaptation? There is one thing that could revive the EU, give it much enhanced global respectability, and make it an “interesting” place: Turkey’s admission as a full member. From The Economist, a Mediterranean maelstrom: Turkey’s fading hopes of joining the European Union would be hugely boosted by a Cyprus settlement; and history helps to explain why the Cyprus problem is so hard to solve. How the West lost Turkey: Is the West's increasingly loveless marriage with Turkey finally headed toward acrimonious divorce? Triumph of the Turks: Turkey is the surprising beneficiary of US misadventures in the Middle East (and more and more). When Islamist foreign policies hurt Muslims: Turkey's government and leader bash

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