Jean Monnet Talk Series-Heiko Pääbo-13.03.2014

Bilkent University Department of Political Science & Public Administration
Jean Monnet Talk Series announces:

Seminar:
“The European Union and the Baltic Sea Region: Prospects of Regional
Cooperation”
Thursday, 13 March 2014, 12:30-14:30
A-130 (Seminar Room)

by
Dr. Heiko Pääbo
Head, Centre for Baltic Studies
University of Tartu
heiko.paabo@ut.ee

Abstract: The EU and the Baltic Sea region – today the Baltic Sea region exists almost
as the EU internal sea, except few Russian coastal areas (Kaliningrad oblast
and surroundings of St Petersburg). The regional cooperation started here
already in early 1990s by establishing the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
Also the EU enlargement included gradually more and more countries from the
region, in 1995 Sweden and Finland, in 2004 Poland, Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania. The Baltic Sea region is considered as one of the most dynamic
and fastest developing regions in the EU. In 2009 European Council adopted
the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region as the first EU macro-regional
strategy. It aims to ‘ to increase the levels of environmental
sustainability, prosperity, accessibility and attractiveness and safety and
security’ of the Baltic Sea region. The lecture will give brief overview of
the development of the region and also to discuss the particular interest of
different countries in the context of regional cooperation as well in the
context of the EU.

Lecture at IEMED-04.03.2014

Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered a lecture on 4 March 2014 entitled “The Impact of the Eurozone Crisis in the Greece-Cyprus-Turkey Relations”, at the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMED), Barcelona.

Lecture at METU-27.02.2014

Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered on 27 February 2014 a lecture entitled “The Cyprus Issue and the European Union: Past and Present”, at  the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (JMCE) in European Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Talk Series-Grigoriadis-27.02.2014

You are cordially invited to this term’s first Jean Monnet talk by  Asst. Prof. Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis (Bilkent University, Department of Political  Science) The presentation is titled, “The Cyprus Issue and the  European Union: Past and Present”, and will promptly start at 14.00 on  27 February 2014, Thursday (Room: Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, B Building, G-169).

Hope to see you all there,

Best,

Centre for European Studies

 

Middle East Technical University (METU)

Center for European Studies (CES)

 

Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar Series 2013-2014

“The Cyprus Issue and the European Union:

Past and Present”

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis

 

Bilkent University

 

27 February 2014, Thursday 14:00

Middle East Technical University

Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences

B Building– 

G-169

Columbia University Lecture-06.02.2014

Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered on 6 February 2014 a lecture entitled    “From Gezi Protests to State Crisis: Turkey’s Domestic Politics in a Critical Election Year” at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University, New York.

Erasmus TSM Lectures-University of Lapland-21-22.01.2014

Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered two lectures during his Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility (TSM) visit to the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. The first was held on  21 January 2014 and was entitled  “Turkey’s EU Membership Debate: Its Meaning for Europe”. The second was held on 22 January 2014 and was entitled “Dilemmas of Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East”.

 

The 2013 Jean Monnet Conference

The 2013 Jean Monnet Conference

November 2013

Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium

The main focus of the 2013 Jean Monnet Conference had been on the political implications of European integration and the move towards further political union.

The conference was  attended by 400 political decision-makers, Jean Monnet professors, top academics, and experts, as well as the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. The attendants sought to determine whether the necessary economic, political, and cultural pre-requisites for further political union had been met. The main conclusion of the conference was that more European integration is needed, and that efforts have to be made to identify the most appropriate means of achieving it.

ELIAMEP-IDOS Lecture-05.12.2013

Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered on 5 December 2013 a lecture entitled    “Turkish Politics: Political Parties and Domestic Challenges” at the Hellenic    Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)/Institute of International Economic Relations (IDOS) Seminar on Turkey, Athens.