The Arab Spring: A Game Changer in Turkey-EU Relations?

Turkey-EU relations

Ever since Turkey and the EU began membership negotiations in 2005, the process has been riddled with difficulties which have impacted on broader Turkey-EU ties. Relations took a further blow last week following the publication of the European Commission’s 2012 Progress Report. Out of the fifteen reports that Turkey has received to date, this was one of the hardest-hitting in recent times, crit...

The EU, Turkey, and the Arab Spring: Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Integration

The game changer.

wants to make the transition between medical school and residency seamless. A lthough she no longer heads a medical school, Deborah Powell is making a mark on medical education. She's trying to break down the wall between medical school and residency and wants to see students trained in a way that's practical , efficient and better reflects the way medicine is practiced today. " Medicine has ev...

Graphene: the game changer?

C 2012 American Chemical Society Graphene: The Game Changer? I t has only been eight years since the isolation of graphene 1 and over a year since the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.” Nevertheless, the number of graphene publications is still rapidly growing. T...

Future of Turkey–EU relations: a civilisational discourse

Should or can Turkey join the European Union (EU)? This paper argues that there are three alternative scenarios of the EU decision to grant membership to Turkey: ‘privileged relationship offer,’ ‘wait and see attitude,’ and ‘start of full membership negotiations.’ It then gauges each alternative path, and argues that the most likely scenario is a decision to start the negotiations, followed by ...