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Turkey–West Relations
Explains the trajectory of Turkish foreign policy behavior vis-...-vis the West, identifying the major factors behind intra-alliance opposition.
The European Union as an Actor in Security Sector Reform
This book critically analyzes the European Union’s role in Security Sector Reform (SSR), a topical issue with regards to European security. While the literature on SSR has increased significantly in the past decade, too little remain in the way of comparative analyses of SSR case studies that are geared toward theory development. This collection strives to push the SSR literature in that direction. One key question it focuses on is whether the EU pursues a holistic approach vis-à-vis SSR. Another question the book addresses is why and how the EU activities towards SSR in conflict management, peacebuilding and statebuilding have produced a wide variety of outcomes that range from the failu...
The Nexus Between Security Sector Governance/Reform and Sustainable Development Goal-16
This Security Sector Reform (SSR) Paper offers a universal and analytical perspective on the linkages between Security Sector Governance (SSG)/SSR (SSG/R) and Sustainable Development Goal-16 (SDG-16), focusing on conflict and post-conflict settings as well as transitional and consolidated democracies. Against the background of development and security literatures traditionally maintaining separate and compartmentalized presence in both academic and policymaking circles, it maintains that the contemporary security- and development-related challenges are inextricably linked, requiring effective measures with an accurate understanding of the nature of these challenges. In that sense, SDG-16 is ...
The Nexus Between Security Sector Governance/Reform and Sustainable Development Goal-16
This book offers a framework for the links between Security Sector Governance and Sustainable Development Goal-16, highlighting the principles of democratic oversight, accountability, participative approach, and local ownership.
External Interventions in Civil Wars
This volume brings together expert case studies on a range of experiences of third-party interventions in civil wars. The chapters consider the role of a variety of organisations, including the United Nations, NATO, the European Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the African Union, and the Organization of American States. Each case study features a presentation and analysis of empirical data in two dimensions: the organisation’s general capabilities to carry out intervention in civil wars and, specific to one particular intervention, the conflict context in which it happened. This serves two purposes. First, to offer insights into the dynamics of each individual case and helping us understand the specific outcome of an intervention effort, i.e., why did a mission (partially) succeed or fail. Second, it enables us to make real comparisons between the cases and draw policy-relevant conclusions about the conditions under which military, civilian and hybrid intervention missions are likely to succeed. This book was originally published as a special issue of Civil Wars.
Security Sector Reform and Transitional Justice Nexus
Security Sector Reform (SSR) has assumed increasing importance in the post-conflict reconstruction process and added to the list of transitional justice mechanisms. Yet the relationship between SSR and transitional justice is largely underexplored, even if they share many of the same goals: accountability for past crimes, capacity building to strengthen the rule of law, legitimacy, and deterrence. This paper traces and analyzes the evolution of the inter-institutional division of labor between the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), and NATO Mission in Kosovo (KFOR) on SSR and transitional justice matters in Kosovo.
British Public Opinion and Mass-Elite Relations on EU Enlargement
Despite the fact that the public in Britain had predominantly negative attitudes towards the Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) in 2004, the British government endorsed this policy. Since the legitimacy of elite actions on EU affairs depends on the level of public support, it is important to study the formation of public opinion and the political communication processes in the European context. Using Flash Eurobarometer survey data, this article first tests the determinants of public support for EU enlargement in Britain. It then examines the nature of the relationship between elites and public opinion on the 2004 enlargement. It concludes that the public discussion about enlargement in Britain was fueled by hysteria rather than facts, and that the British policymakers failed to both provide the worried public with clear facts on the possible effects of enlargement and take substantive policy decisions to alleviate popular concerns.
Futures of the Western Balkans
This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region. Taking a two-pronged conceptual approach focusing on fragmentation and integration, the volume highlights commonalities and differences in a number of simultaneous dynamics currently characterizing the region: Europeanization and EU access, market integration, and migration and socio-demographic transformations. Stressing the interconnectedness of these issues, the volume synthesizes key questions for the future of the region, such as the relationship between socio-demographic trends and economic development, the effects of depopulation on further EU integration, and the economic and political repercussions of enhanced intra-regional trade. Explicitly interdisciplinary, this Brief will be useful for researchers and students specializing in the Balkans and Western Balkans, post-socialist countries, European affairs, enlargement, foreign policy, international relations, regional studies, economics, economic transition, and socio-demographics.
EU-NATO Security Relations
This book examines the future of the EU-NATO security relationship through a comparative analysis of the foreign policies of three key actors. Tthe United States, France, and Turkey, which constitute a ‘Strategic Triangle‘, are the focus of this study. These three key countries’ grand strategies, preferences, and interests are explored to map the evolving transatlantic security relationship between the EU and NATO. In this foreign policy analysis, the book examines both the external (anarchy, power, interdependence) and the internal (leaders, bureaucracies, societal groups, public opinion) factors determining the foreign policies of these three key countries. Evidently, any evaluation ...
