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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
Read More »EUROPE: BETWEEN HOPE AND DISILLUSION
For the fourth weekend in a row, Kiev’s Independence Square has become the main scenario for protests against the Ukrainian government’s decision to waive the signing of an association and free trade agreement with
Read More »AFRICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATIONS – ARTICLE I
New millennium is distinguished by a characteristic struggle between civilizations in the geopolitical domain. Introduced by Samuel Huntington as a new theory of international relations, clash of civilizations driven international relations underlie geopolitical landscape
Read More »CYPRUS DISPUTE IN TERMS OF ENERGY POLITICS
There is no denying that “energy politics” has become a significant part of the regional and global economy as well as geopolitics and international relations in the last decades. While energy policy is about the
Read More »MARGARET THATCHER (1925-2013)
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on 13 October 1925 to Alfred Roberts, originally from Northamptonshire and Beatrice Roberts née Stephenson from Lincolnshire. She was brought up a devout Methodist and has remained a pious Christian throughout her life. She studied natural
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