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Brexit: Now the Hard Part Begins — What the UK Must Do

CESRAN Int.9 December 20179 December 2017

“Without changes by the UK Govenrment, only a one-sided deal is possible” Editor’s Note: On Friday morning, after months of protracted discussions, the UK and the European Union finally reached...

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Be careful what you wish for: a tale of two prime ministers

CESRAN Int.9 October 20169 October 2016

David Cameron started his career as party leader with a simple wish: to get the Conservative Party to ‘stop banging on about Europe’. However, he did not have a strategy...

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Why Spain plays a crucial role in whether United Kingdom stays together

CESRAN Int.3 July 20163 July 2016

Committed supporters of Scottish independence may be dusting down their 2014 memorabilia and rehearsing their arguments now that the Brexit vote has raised the prospect of another referendum north of...

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Europe’s Leaders are Europe’s Greatest Weakness

CESRAN Int.23 May 201623 May 2016

Europe’s leaders are Europe’s greatest weakness. Stockholm is a beautiful city, both solid and enticing in equal measure as it cavorts between land, sea, and sky. And yet behind the...

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21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 1

CESRAN Int.6 May 20156 May 2015

Abstract: It requires several hundred pages to address the complex subject of challenges to American democracy in the post-Cold War era of a global multi-polar economic and political power structure....

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Syriza’s Spinning, but Nobody’s Buying

CESRAN Int.13 February 201513 February 2015

The Greek crisis is accelerating more rapidly than many anticipated. As CNN reports: Greek markets are tumbling after the European Central Bank raised the pressure on the country’s new anti-austerity...

Russia and Eurasia

Who is Eurasia? The Advent of Politics into Geography

CESRAN Int.7 April 201412 May 2016

One of the very first things I have learned after starting the school was “Turkey is a bridge between Europe and Asia.” This metaphor of “bridge” has been one of...

Book Reviews

Book Review: An Island in Europe: The EU and the Transformation of Cyprus

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

When the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) applied for EU membership on behalf of the entire island, the prospect increased the hopes that it would act as a catalyst for Turkey...

Book Reviews

Book Review: The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe: Rules and Rhetoric

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

By Frank Schimmelfennig Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 323 pp. $45 By Omer F. Orsun | 17 July 2010 In his scholarly and widely-cited book (229 times as of today) The EU, NATO...