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Dynamics of Cooperation and Conflict in NATO-EU Relations
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Publisher and Date:(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2014)NATO's supremacy in the security and defence structures of the Euro-Atlantic region during the Cold War era has prevented the development of a self-sustained European security mechanism. With the end of the Cold War specifically with the St. Malo Summit in 1998 which was a breakthrough in the advancement of the Common Security and Defence Policy the NATO-EU relationship became pronounced. Since then opportunities for and difficulties of collaboration have both defined this inter-institutional ...
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EU conditionality and desecuritization nexus in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013)Borrowing the Copenhagen school's lexicon of desecuritization the present paper appraises the EU's role as a desecuritizing agent for Turkey with a particular focus on security speech-acts about Kurdish separatism' and political Islam'. Taking up the illustrative cases of silencing the military and abandoning limits to freedom of speech reflected in EU-Turkey accession documents this paper observes the ways in which the EU membership conditionality has been an important catalyst for Turkey's ...
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Revisiting the Mainstream Approaches of the Theories of International Relations
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Publisher and Date:(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2015)The view that we have reached the end of the "grand debates" in International Relations (IR) is widespread among the majority of IR scholars. Today, we observe that the references to the great theoretical debates in the prominent journals of IR have significantly diminished and that the most relevant debates have been among the scholars belonging to the same school specifically over empirical studies rather than between theories/paradigms. 'this paper, by revealing the challenges generated by the ...
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Squaring the Circle: The EU's Operational Impact in the Black Sea Region
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014)The aim of this paper is to explain the flux in the European Union (EU) policies towards the Black Sea region with a particular comparative focus on the impact of the EU's operations in the South Caucasus and the EU Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in Moldova. This paper adopts the prospect and process of EU enlargement towards Central and Eastern Europe as a breakthrough in the EU's deeper rapprochement with the Black Sea region. By assuming that the EU has a variety of instruments at its disposal ...
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The Black Sea Region: The Neighbourhood too Close to yet still Far from the European Union
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014)
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The NATO-EU-Turkey trilogy: the impact of the Cyprus conundrum
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012)The Cyprus conundrum presents a major challenge to western security structures and relationships in particular with regard to Turkey's European Union (EU) accession process and the stalled Berlin plus arrangements between NATO and the EU. This article argues that the Cyprus question is neither the sole reason for blocking the progress nor is its resolution the panacea for unblocking the interwoven stalemate in the NATO-EU and the EU-Turkey relationships. In this context this article will first ...
