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EU-TURKEY RELATIONS IN 2014: GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START?

EU-TURKEY RELATIONS IN 2014: GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START?

upa-admin Ocak 1, 2014 9

The most optimistic scenarios foresaw that Turkey could become an EU member around the year 2014 if Turkey’s domestic reforms were ambitious enough and the EU would have had a clear political will to

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ANOTHER SPRING: THE MIDDLE EAST BETWEEN HISTORY OF REVOLTS AND FUTURE GEOPOLITICS

ANOTHER SPRING: THE MIDDLE EAST BETWEEN HISTORY OF REVOLTS AND FUTURE GEOPOLITICS

upa-admin Nisan 12, 2013 0

Regularly, when spring comes, people expect flowers and green shoots and optimism prevails. Alas, things in the Middle East are quite different. With every spring that comes, people recall the outbreak of the first

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DEMOCRATIZATION OF EUROPE: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

DEMOCRATIZATION OF EUROPE: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

upa-admin Temmuz 19, 2012 0

ABSRACT SUMMARY:  It has always been difficult to find an appropriate theory, which best explains the democratization or democratic consolidation in European countries. Each theory brings up some convincing arguments. Nevertheless, none of them

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