Turkey and the European Union

Graduated in Budapest at the Faculty of Economics (today Corvinus University), he got his PhD degree and habilitated at the same University. He is a ScD of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In parallel with his government and diplomatic career he has been teaching and doing research. He was nominated Professor of the Corvinus University in 2000 and joined the CEU as a full time Professor in 2005. He is regularly lecturing at international conferences and universities in English, French, German and Hungarian languages.

• Table of contents List of Contributors 7 Introduction (Ahmet Evin) 11 Chapter 1: Foreign Policy and the EU in Turkish Politics: Exploring Trends in Electoral Manifestos (Emre Hatipoglu*, Ilker Aslan and Brooke Luetgert) Chapter 2: Support for enlargement and the acquis communautaire in EU member states and in Turkey (Bogdan Mihai Radu, Zselyke Tofalvi) Chapter 3: History in the use of diplomacy: France, Turkey and the EU facing the question of the Armenian genocide (Aron Szele) Chapter 4: EU-Russia-Turkey Relationships and Impacts on Neighborhood Issues with focus on the Post-Soviet Countries and the Economic Dimension (Zsuzsa Ludvig) Chapter 5: Economic interests of the EU and Turkey on the Balkans (Tamas Szigetvari) Chapter 6: The future of the Western Balkans: Will western allure prevail over eastern assertiveness? (Hana Semanic) Conclusion (Peter Balazs)