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In this article, I build a theory of European Union (EU) expansion using Social Identity Theory. The theory proposes that the development of a national identity in relation to Europe is the most significant contributing factor to a policy to support-oppose expanding the EU to include applicant countries. According to the theory, strength of identity-whether more national or European-is the key variable in explaining the policy toward applicant countries. As a preliminary exploration of the theory, I look at why some decision-makers within EU countries support Turkey's accession while others do not. The identities among top decision-makers within Britain, Germany, and France are used to examine the policy preferences regarding Turkey's bid for membership into the EU during these three recent progressions: the recognition of Turkey as a candidate country in 1999, the development of a timeline for full membership in 2002, and the beginning of accession negotiations in 2005. Adapted from the source document.

This essay discusses women's gender roles as they were imagined and debated in a Bengali text written towards the
end of the sixteenth century. Efforts to reexamine precolonial gender roles and debates about them are important for
three reasons. First, that large body of research on gender which begins with the colonial period often has obscured
elements of continuity between colonial and precolonial discourse on gender in South Asia, and often exaggerates or
misstates both the degree of consensus about gender in the precolonial period, and the nature of change in the colonial
period.