foreign policy cooperation and coordination among the european community member states and presenting europe with a single voice, has long been an important challenge within the european community/european union, especially since early 1970s. in the early 1990s, following the collapse of the ussr and the end of the cold war, there was a general speculation in europe that the ec may be able to p...

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...

security has been the most important issue in relations between turkey and the european :union:. turkish leaders have always tried to link their own security concerns with those of the :union:, trying to portray their country as net security provider to the eu. the european :union: in its new security strategy has tried to expand its security zone outside the eu, defining issues such as terrori...

this paper aims to address the obstacles of accession of turkey to the european :union: (eu). for this the paper discusses some obstacles in the way of turkey’s application to accede to the european :union: that have caused delay in its membership in eu. the paper explains all the efforts that turkey has made to achieve this goal, on one hand. on the other hand, considering all existing obstacl...

Innovativeness, determining the development potential of enterprises and economies, and hence the economic welfare of societies, became an important area of interest for both theoreticians and especially economic life practitioners. Thus, in this study of the subject there can be found numerous definitions and types of innovation, including environmental innovation, being a response to the dema...

on the basis of constitution and social and cultural contexts, each country has its own private international law system. concerning countries with federal system like the united states of america, conflict of laws not only may occur between laws of the united states and law of the other countries, but also in a distinctive manner, among states of the usa together. european :union: is in the sa...

“south caucasus” has always been part of the most challenging regions of the world and it is considered very crucial for europe to maintain its security.“eastern partnership plan” (eap), which is part of neighborhood policy of eu (european :union:) started in the country a short time after the war between georgia and russia in 2008, in fact, it was interpreted as the europe’s response to russia...

one of the important issues which deals simultaneously with the european :union: (eu) enlargement policy and its common foreign and security policy, is eu's policy towards its neighbors. after eu enlargement. it is a crossroad of eu foreign, security, development and trade policies which aims at europeanization and creating a ring of friends around its borders where good governance, political a...

Background This article assesses the global health policies of the European Union (EU) and those of its individual member states. So far EU and public health scholars have paid little heed to this, despite the large budgets involved in this area. While the European Commission has attempted to define the ‘EU role in Global Health’ in 2010, member states are active in the domain of global health ...