Bullettin n. 1/2011
June 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Hale William
    Human Rights and Turkey's EU Accession Process: Internal and External
    in South European Society & Politics , Volume 16, Issue 2, Special Issue: Turkey and the European Union: Accession and Reform, June ,  2011 ,  323-333
    This paper attempts to assess and explain the relative strength of internal and external factors in the improvement of Turkey's human rights regime. After 1999, the European Union, which required Turkey to conform to the 'Copenhagen criteria' of civil liberties as a precondition for the start of accession negotiations, has been by far the most important element, resulting in the passage of an impressive raft of constitutional and legal reforms between 2001 and 2004. After 2005, when accession talks officially began, the pace of reform slackened markedly, as the accession process became more problematic. Nonetheless, in 2010, another package of constitutional reforms was enacted, suggesting that the cause of reform has now acquired a powerful internal dynamic.
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