PERCEPTIONS, JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
 
Perceptions > Volume VII / December 2002 - February 2003

EUROPEAN MODELS FOR A NEW PARTNERSHIP IN CYPRUS

AHMET C. GAZIOGLU
Ahmet C. Gazioglu is the Editing Director and Manager of the Cyprus Research & Publishing Centre in Lefkosa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. He is the author of various Turkish and English books on Cyprus. His recent English books include: The Turks in Cyprus (1990), Cyprus, EU and Turkey (1998), Two Equal & Sovereign Peoples (2nd edition, 1999), Past Masters of Illegality (2000) and Cyprus: The Island of Sustained Crises, Vol. 2 (2002). 

Since 1968, not only Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot leaders but also Ankara and Athens, the UN, the USA, Britain and NATO have tried within their capacity and in line with their own interests to solve the Cyprus problem...

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THE EUROPEAN UNION'S MEDITERRANEAN POLICY AND THE CYPRUS IMBROGLIO

SALAHI R. SONYEL 
Prof Dr Sonyel is at present a visiting professor in International Relations in the Near East University in Lefkosa (Nicosia), in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and is an honorary life member of the Turkish Historical Society, Ankara.

EUROPEAN UNION'S MEDITERRANEAN POLICY 

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, writing in The Economist of 11 October 2002, called for “a simple statement of what the European Union is”, and gave his own definition as “a union of sovereign states ...

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GEO-STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF CYPRUS: LONG-TERM TRENDS & PROSPECTS 

EYÜP ÖZVEREN 
Eyüp Özveren is Professor in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. 

INTRODUCTION 

While concern for the resolution of the Cyprus problem has always been witnessed in the international arena, not all parties involved have necessarily been keen on helping to bring about a climate conducive to this effect. As a matter of fact, there exists a convincing ...

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HOW TO INTERPRET TURKEY'S ACCESSION PROCESS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION? A CLASH OF DISCOURSES

H. TARIK OGUZLU 
H. Tarik Oguzlu is currently completing his PhD in International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. 

INTRODUCTION 

This essay comprises of two major aims. One is to de-construct Turkey's ongoing accession process with the European Union, by paying considerable attention to the placement of geo-political and security-related ...

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ON THE UN'S LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE IRREGULAR ADMISSION OF MACEDONIA TO UN

IGOR JANEV
Dr Igor Janev is a Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Political Studies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 

INTRODUCTION 
Macedonia's admission to UN membership in April 1993 (General Assembly (GA) Resolution 47/225 (1993)1, pursuant to the Security Council (SC) Resolution 817 (1993)2 recommending such admission) came with two conditions in addition to those explicitly provided in Article 4(1) of the UN Charter, namely ... 

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PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR DETERRENCE: POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC DIMENSIONS

A. Z. HILALI 
A.Z. Hilali is a Research Scholar at the Centre for Security Studies, Department of Politics at the University of Hull, UK. 

Security is basically a relational phenomenon and an ambiguous concept.1 It is a broader idea than power, and it has the useful feature of incorporating much of the insight, which derives from the analysis of power.2 The principal dimension of security is maintenance of a people's homeland, or even ...

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COLLECTIVE SECURITY IN EUROPE 

HASAN ULUSOY
Hasan Ulusoy, PhD candidate at METU, is a First Secretary at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

INTRODUCTION 
The end of the Cold War has revived interest in the concept of collective security. This is not surprising taking into account the fact that the end of earlier international rivalries, such as the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, and Word War II, witnessed ...

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THE UNITED STATES VS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: ARE THEIR TWO APPROACHES TOWARDS THE ERADICTION OF TERRORISM COMPATIBLE? 

NOËLLE QUÉNIVET
Noëlle Quénivet is a Research Associate at the Institute for the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the University of Bochum, Germany and PhD candidate in law at the University of Essex, UK.  

Since September 11 much attention has been devoted to the notion of ‘terrorism'. By reading ...

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