2009 EC report: positive outlook for Serbia
Igor Jovanovic Serbia "has done a good and serious job in co-operating with The Hague tribunal and in meeting its obligations regarding the war crimes", according EU Enlargement Commissioner...
What’s in a Name?
Zoran Jolevski Macedonia’s ambassador responds to “The Name Game”. ForeignPolicy.com recently published an inaccurate history (“The Name Game,” July 23, 2009) of Greece's efforts to prevent Macedonia from joining...
Understanding the European Integration through the Ideational Factors:
Kadri Kaan Renda After the end of the Second World War, there was an urgent need to reconstruct Europe, which was ruined by the totalitarian ideologies. There were many...
Critical Discourse Analysis Of A News Report Regarding The Stall In Turkey’s Eu Process
Alaaddin F. Paksoy ritical discourse analysis has three dimensions, which are “text, discursive practice and social practise” (Jensen, Klaus Bruhn, 2002: 106). In order to understand these dimensions better,...
Can Turkey’s Main Secularist Party Make a Comeback?
Nicholas Birch nationwide, the CHP only managed to get 2 percent more votes than in general elections in 2007. But in Istanbul, Turkey’s biggest city, it increased votes by 10...
An Unwanted Guest
David J. Kramer, Irina Krasovskaya he European Union finds itself in an awkward position at the moment: hoping that an invited guest finds reason to stay away. Last...
Moldova’da Parlamento Seçimleri
Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu tüm dünyanın NATO ve G-20 zirvelerine, Türkiye'nin ise Obama'nın ziyaretine odaklandığı haftada, 5 Nisan 2009 Pazar günü, Moldova Cumhuriyeti'nde parlamento seçimleri gerçekleştirildi. Katılım oranının %60'ı bulmadığı...
Identity and the Future of European integration: Crossroads or cul-de-sac?
By Kadri Kaan Renda Introduction: The European Union (EU) commenced as a project to integrate the six Western European states in economic and then political and cultural area. The economic...
CESRAN EUROPEAN STUDIES
European Studies is a broad field of study providing a historical, political, economic and sociological analysis of current trends and key issues in Europe. Historical and recent developments within Europe,...
Realities of the Gezi Park
There has been a newly emerged concept of “Gezi Parki” the meaning of which resonates in “resistance” against the AKP government and specifically to Recep Tayyib Erdogan, the Prime Minister...
Turkish Nationalists Have Hard Days Ahead
BY HUSREV TABAK** | 07 APRIL 2013 It has been proven that being a nationalist in a country in transition from a modernist national period to a post-national one is...
Practical Indications of the Peace Process in Full Bloom
The most comprehensive peace process between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bore its first fruit this spring. BY RAHMAN DAG | MARCH 24, 2013 Despite the...
Albanian Awakening: The Worm has Turned!
Remarks articulated last week by Hakan Şükür, a famous former football player and current parliamentary deputy, garnered widespread attention and reminded the public that there are ethnic Albanians living in...
Turkey’s Illusions of Neo-Eurasianism and Interest in Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The expression goes “history repeats itself,” but does it really? On Dec. 31, 1991, the USSR President and Soviet Communist Party Secretary-General Mikhail Gorbachev presented his resignation to the Soviet...