Finding Europe's Pitch: Comparing the Borders of European Politics, Economics, and Society.

The Union of European Football (Soccer) Associations is geographically, culturally, politically, and economically a much broader array of countries than the European Union. Russia, Israel, and Turkey, for example, are members of UEFA but not the EU. This raises two questions: First, why are so many more peoples and countries considered European in terms of soccer (UEFA) but not politics and economics (EU)? Second, what would the EU be like if its membership was the same as UEFA's? Using EUFA’s borders as a theoretical maximum definition of Europe may offer new insight into the pressing questions of EU expansion. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]