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ARMENIA BETWEEN “RUSSIAN HAMMER” AND “WESTERN ANVIL”
Debate goes on about the potential outcome of official Yerevan’s decision to join the Customs Union (CU). Armenian experts primarily criticize the leadership of the country on this issue. They have become sensitive in
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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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FEAR OF LOSING UKRAINE: PERSPECTIVE FROM MOSCOW AND BRUSSELS
New heights of geopolitical struggle between European Union and Russia are being speculated upon lately. The reason is Ukraine gearing up for the signing of the association agreement with the EU. Analysis of internal
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MODELL DEUTSCHLAND
Following the years of the Second World War, Western Germany or Federal Germany adopted a unique economic model which was defined by Wolfgang Streeck as “neither laissez-faire nor étatiste and it is best described
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50 YEARS OF EU-TURKEY RELATIONS: TALK THE TALK AND WALK THE WALK
12th September 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the Ankara Agreement, signed in 1963 in Ankara, hence its name. The agreement established an association between Turkey and the then European Economic Community (EEC) signaling
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THE IMPLICATION OF THE CASPIAN REGION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NEW ENERGY ORDER
In the aftermath of collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, several arguments have been put forward in order to define the new system of the world. One of these arguments has been the
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FREE TRADE ZONE: ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE GLOBAL GEOPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE BY THE U.S. AND EU
International media were quick to pick up news on the commencement of negotiations between Washington and Brussels on the establishment of a free trade zone to embrace Transatlantic space. Experts attribute the talks between
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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
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RELIABILITY AND RECOGNITION OF TURKISH CYPRIOT POLITICS & POLITICIANS
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION “Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”[1] Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, as a micro-state, has many advantages and disadvantages.
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EU-TURKEY RELATIONS AFTER GEZİ: ANOTHER HALT OR AN INCENTIVE TO REVIVE TURKEY’S MORIBUND ACCESSION PROCESS?
In my previous article I was to a certain extent optimistic over a positive breakthrough in EU-Turkey relations in 2013. However, the way Prime Minister Erdoğan and the AKP members (with a few exceptions)
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