At the end of the Cold War, the Western international community embarked on a large-scale
project of promoting democratic change and consolidation in Eastern Europe. This book …

Democracy does not cause peace among nations. Rather, domestic conditions cause both
democracy and peace. From 1961 to 2001, democratic nations engaged in numerous fatal …

This study examines the validity of the animosity construct in a new social context. Moreover,
this study breaks new ground by examining the impact of personal characteristics on the …

Both ethnic communities in Cyprus have maintained strong political and cultural ties with
Greece and Turkey, respectively, and at some point of their twentieth century history, each …

Is Turkey on the way to meet the economic Copenhagen criteria? The enlargement process
that the European Union faced the last decade stirred the debate again about the role …

This article examines the effects of elite framing on conflict transformation. It utilises debates
from the Turkish Grand National Assembly as the main source of empirical evidence and …

The EU's commencement of accession negotiations with Turkey in October 2005 represents
a watershed in Turkish-EU relations. However, even in the area of straightforward …

The European Union's enlargement has been considered a success story–apart from
Cyprus and Turkey. This book looks at the EU's expansion and examines its effectiveness in …

Human rights violations against religious or ethnic minorities cannot be treated
independently of the state-society relations in respective countries. With a focus on the …

This article examines the causation and extent of interstate crisis escalation among two
conflictual dyads, namely Greece–Turkey and India–Pakistan. It draws from the International …