The EU’s Responses to the Euro Crisis: T…
Although the global financial crisis that affected EU member states in 2008 might have been perceived not to have affected continental Europe deeply, it appears as of April 2013 that...
Aslıhan P. TURAN 07 May 2013 Hits:195 Europe
Migration Profile of the French Republic
«France, love it or leave it.»(1)Nicolas Sarkozy,Former President of the French Republic France is a country in the European Union with its own particular characteristics in regard to migration. The fall...
Dr. Olga R. GULINA 25 Apr 2013 Hits:344 Europe
The Different Logics Shaping Turkey’s Ap…
The anatomy of Turkey’s approach towards the European Union deserves a particular treatment at this time period, as Turkey has been formally negotiating its entry to the EU while the...
Prof. Tarık OĞUZLU 15 Mar 2013 Hits:2008 Europe
Towards An Imperfect Union: Strategic Ra…
The uneasy relationship between the United Kingdom (UK) and any continental bloc is an established European motif that is, in an anecdotal sense, as 'old as lore'. The fact that...
Cihan ERKLİ 06 Mar 2013 Hits:1103 Europe
Turkey and the Europ…
The EU membership issue seems to be no longer on Turkey’s political agenda, as both Turkey and the European Union have going through difficult times recently. Turkey’s attention has been…
Where now for Russia…
Whether Russia can restore its influence over Eurasia after the fall of the Soviet Union remains one of the key questions of our time. Is such a possibility open to…
Is Turkey still in t…
Since Justice and Development Party’s coming into power in 2002, a quite number of western observers have pointed out that Turkey has been shifting its orientation away from the West…
The New Challenges F…
The European Union (EU) might seem like a monolithic entity from the peripheral exterior, but in reality this is simply not the case. For many the EU is akin to…
The New Challenges F…
The recent visit of the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to Germany could amount to a theoretical ‘reset’ in the otherwise strained and neglected Turkish-EU relations. Erdogan’s message was…
Down to the Wire: Ro…
With a little more than 50 days left until America’s national elections, the presidential race has grown tighter since both the Republican and Democratic Conventions wrapped by early September.
French-Turkish Relat…
What can Turkey expect from French diplomacy towards Ankara after the contradictory speeches of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius, and the French President himself, François Hollande, as…
US Grand Strategy in…
I wanted to talk to you about ‘grand strategy,’ which is a level of strategy above military strategy. There’s tactics, operations, strategies. ‘Grand strategy’ refers to the efforts by states…
An End to Disenchant…
The return of the far-right seems rather historically anachronistic in an age where European borders seemingly do not exist and the European Union (EU) is at its most expanded status.…