The 1st Issue of Volume 13 of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies is available now. This issue contains a variety of articles discussing Europeanisation and the EU in Southeast Europe. Apostolos Agnantopoulos explains Greek support for Turkey’s EU Accession, and Ritsa Panagiotou looks at how the enlargement prospects of the Western Balkans will be affected by the […]
In this book, Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, examines the impact of improving EU-Turkey relations on Turkish political culture since Turkey became a candidate for EU membership in 1999. While a multi-party political system was introduced in Turkey in 1946, political liberalism was the missing part of Turkey’s democratic consolidation. Turkish political culture valued submissiveness toward state […]
The start of EU-Turkey accession negotiations in the late hours of 3 October 2005 ended a long diplomatic struggle, which threatened to derail the process of Turkey’s EU accession. The drafting of the EU-Turkey Negotiation Framework Agreement turned out to be a task much more difficult than many had expected. The insistence of Turkey not […]
