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Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners. In Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization (50-79). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0723-9.ch003

The recent association agreements with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia are meant to replace the existing Partnership and Cooperation Agreements between the EU and the three Eastern Partners. Their purpose is to deepen the political and economic ties bet... Read More about Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners.

Examining Risk as a Political Construct: The Impact of Changing Views of the Prevailing Threats to Public Safety on the Definition of Risk (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Examining Risk as a Political Construct: The Impact of Changing Views of the Prevailing Threats to Public Safety on the Definition of Risk. In Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe: Safety, Security and Social Control in Local Communities (221 - 228)

Purpose:
This paper examines whether the concept of risk in legal responses of Western liberal democracies is politically constructed and defined according to changing views of the prevailing threats to public safety.
Methods:
Based on theoretical... Read More about Examining Risk as a Political Construct: The Impact of Changing Views of the Prevailing Threats to Public Safety on the Definition of Risk.

The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation? (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation?. In The Institutionalisation of EU-US Relations: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Transatlantic Trade and Data Privacy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50221-2_4

This chapter explores the forms of governance that the EU–US PNR, TFTP, Privacy Shield and Umbrella Agreement have established in the transatlantic data space by looking at the relevant rules, procedures and institutions. It concludes that transatlan... Read More about The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation?.

‘Whiter than White’: Race and Otherness in Turkish and Greek National Identities (2016)
Journal Article
Gokay, & Hamourtziadou, L. (2016). ‘Whiter than White’: Race and Otherness in Turkish and Greek National Identities. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 18(2), 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141590

Despite the fact that living together in the same geographical space has created many similarities for Turkey and Greece over the centuries, both sides are keen to identify, even exaggerate, the differences between them and other ‘inferiors’. This ar... Read More about ‘Whiter than White’: Race and Otherness in Turkish and Greek National Identities.