Penulis: Olaf Leisse

Mehmet Bardakçı is Assistant Professor in Political Science and International Relations at Yeni Yüzyıl University, Istanbul, Turkey. He obtained a BA in International Relations from Bilkent University in 1994 and a Ph D in Political Science from Duisburg-Essen University in 2007. His work spans Turkish politics and foreign policy, Euroscepticism, Europeanization, democratization, minority rights, and civil-military relations. Annette Freyberg-Inan is Lecturer in International and European Politics at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and affiliated with the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. She has published widely in her fields, chairs the Theory Section of the International Studies Association, and just completed a term as co-editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development. Christoph Giesel is Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer atthe Institute of Slavistics and Caucasus Studies at the Jena University, Germany. His main research interests are in manifestations of nationalism, ethnicity, religion and minorities and in structures and dynamics of political and social organization with a special focus on the Balkans, Anatolia, Caucasus, Middle East and North Africa. Olaf Leisse is Professor of European Studies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He has published widely about South East Europe and Turkey. His special interest is in Europeanization processes in EU Accession States, as well as the current disintegration process.