Since 1973, the European Union has been expanding its borders from its six founding members—West Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium, to include all of Western Europe and parts of Scandinavia by 1995. However, with the fall of the Soviet Union in 199…
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This study analyzes the impact of domestic factors on the Europeanization of minority protection policies in Latvia, Bulgaria and Turkey. The study argues that domestic conditions have significant impact on the decision of the candidate states on fulfilling the EU requirements i…
Since the turn of the millennium fragile, conflict-affected states (FCAS) have grown to constitute a significant issue within European discourse. The spill-over of their 'complex political emergencies' is destabilising, as epitomised by the 9/11 attacks. Bush's 'war on terrorism…
The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in European Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The analysis takes into consideration previous studies on Europeanisation and its impact on the transformation of national secur…
This dissertation asks how democratization within the context of Europeanization affects the demilitarization of politics. It explores the question through a case study of Turkish civil-military relations between 1997 and 2007. Conventional wisdom stresses the incentives that in…
This study provides an agency-centered theoretical framework of institutional change at domestic level. It argues that institutional change should be understood as a conflictual process having two stages: initiation and bargaining. At the first stage, certain internal and extern…
The main forces shaping Bosnian domestic politics today are the Office of High Representative (OHR), the national level political parties, the sub-national actors, and the Bosnian people themselves. The question this thesis seeks to answer is where, to what extent and why has Eu…
This dissertation analyses three major social policy reforms in Turkey in two policy domains: employment and social security. By adopting the Uses of Europe theoretical approach, it aims to analyze empirically and to explain theoretically the uses of Europe in two domains of soc…