Enlargement, foreign policy and conflict management : assessing the EU impact on the Turco-hellenic conflict

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2006
Ünver, H. Akın
This thesis analyzes the impact of the European Union (EU) on the Turco-Hellenic conflict. The theoretical foundation of this thesis is the link between EU enlargement, policies of conditionality and the process of ءEuropeanization̕. The thesis makes the point that, apart from visible capabilities such as Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), enlargement is a more significant channel through which the EU interacts with the conflicts in its periphery. With this in mind, the thesis makes a survey of EU involvement in the Turkish-Greek conflict starting from the 1960s, emergence of the Cyprus issue between Greece and Turkey and the changing nature of Turkey-Europe relations with Greece̕s membership in 1981.

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H. A. Ünver, “Enlargement, foreign policy and conflict management : assessing the EU impact on the Turco-hellenic conflict,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2006.