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EU-TURKEY RELATIONS IN 2014: GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START?
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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‘SINK OR SWIM’: TIME FOR A TWO-WAY RE-ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN TURKEY AND THE EU
EU-Turkey relations were put on hold before the summer awaiting approval by European Union (EU) Member States to restart negotiations on the basis of European Commission’s annual Turkey progress report. For the first time
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ANOTHER SPRING: THE MIDDLE EAST BETWEEN HISTORY OF REVOLTS AND FUTURE GEOPOLITICS
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
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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