Introduction: Turkey at the Threshold of the EU; J.S.Joseph The Economic Dimension of Turkey's EU Membership: A Stock-taking Exercise at the Start of Accession Negotiations; M.Ugur Between Fedora and Fez: Modern Turkey's Troubled Road to Democratic Consolidation and the Pluralizing Role of Erdogan's Pro-Islam Government; S.Kotsovilis The EU Challenge: A View from the Turkish Grand National Assembly; N.G.Loizides & E.Ersin Relations between the State and Civil Society in Turkey: Does the EU Make a Difference?; W.Weber The Kurdish Problem in International Politics; M.M.Gunter The Europeanization of Turkey's Kurdish Question; N.Tocci The Greek Variable in EU-Turkish Relations; A.Kazamias Turkey's Quest for EU Membership and the Cyprus Problem; T.Bahcheli Security Implications of Turkey's March toward EU Membership; M.Kibaroglu The US and Turkey's Quest for EU Membership; O.Taspinar The Iraq War and the Troubled US-Turkish Alliance: Some Conclusions for Europe; O.Kayhan & D.Lindley