Social Cohesion, Sustainable Development and Turkey's Accession to the European Union: Implications from a Global Model

Recent debates about globalization among decision makers and social scientists have coined the term "pathfinders of globalization" (Harss and Maier, 1998). A good segment of the international social scientific community would be in accordance with such a role-description, while an equally important and growing segment of the social scientific community would vehemently oppose the basic axioms of globalization in its present form.