In the post-Single European Act period, debates around European identity have intensified, particularly in the context of EU enlargement. The EU's move to being a supranational political entity in the past two decades has caused serious concerns in some sections of the elite and people across...

Transnational activism has become an increasingly salient dynamic of world politics in several issue areas including human rights, environment, development, women’s rights, and peace. The article first assesses how major international relations theories look at them. While realist theories do...

This paper examines Turkey's relations with the European Union from December 1997 to December 2004 to understand the major dynamics behind the recent democratization and human rights reforms in Turkey. For this purpose, the study focuses on three factors: (1) the impact of EU, particularly the...