Category: Europe

Antonio Prlenda   Seven Southeast European countries' defence ministers and the US Department of Defence met in Sarajevo on Wednesday (November 18th) to discuss further regional co-operation and the NATO...

Moisés Naím   The fall of the Berlin Wall was bad news for sovietologists. Thousands of spies, military officers, diplomats, professors, journalists and assorted experts made a living studying the...

Judith Latham    The demise of the Berlin Wall and all it stood for hold different memories for different people. Overt joy was the emotion felt by many in the...

Valentina Pop   EU military chiefs are nervous that their advice will not carry the same weight once the new Lisbon Treaty is in place and that the planned diplomatic...

Marina Roganovic and Besa Beqiri Amid squabbles over the issue, Montenegro and Kosovo are planning formal negotiations to establish a definitive, legally binding border. Officials have tried to stay positive,...

James Joyner   U.S. President Barack Obama is so beloved in Europe that he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize (which he later won) just 12 days after taking office for...

Foreign Policy: Shortly after the Obama administration's reversal on the missile defense system in Central Europe, you were quoted as saying that you hoped this would disabuse Polish leaders of...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...