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"The European Neighbourhood Policy" published on by Oxford University Press.

Since the changes introduced in Turkey's foreign policy during the 2000s, it has reached a stage that calls for an urgent review of its regional and global strategic choices. This article analyzes Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's foreign policy doctrine, examines its limitations and critically evaluates its relevance to current foreign policy-making. Recent events in the Middle East pose a challenge to the soft power, 'zero conflict' policy introduced by Davutoğlu. Consequently, Turkey's foreign policy rhetoric over the past two years has hardened, triggered by uncertainties in Turkey-European Union (EU) relations, the deterioration in its relationship with Israel, and the Arab Spring events that have engulfed countries in its periphery. Since the EU plays an important role in terms of the democratic and economic transformation of Turkey, the country's accession to the EU would be important in ensuring both the continuance of its soft power strategy and its security strategy in line with Davutoğlu's 'strategic depth' doctrine.

The enlargement of the European Union will bring many political, economical and structural changes on the Continent, which require careful and deep analysis to be made. This paper will grasp the enlargement of the European Union from the aspect of the trade pattern and trade specialization of six major European Union candidates; namely, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic by focusing on the years from 1996 to 2002. In other words, the main purpose of this paper is to examine the international competitiveness of six candidate countries and to compare the structure of specialization in foreign trade with each other and the EU/15.

Summary The present article seeks to understand, by means of the latest impetus to the negotiation process between Mercosur and the European Union carried out during Mauricio Macri's Presidency (2015-2019), what were the key features of the external relationship strategy of the Algerian conservative government.To this end, a qualitative methodology has been used using official sources, reports and journalistic notes which enabled the negotiation process to emerge. It has been concluded that, in addition to the Argentinian will, in order to make the agreement possible, it was possible to discern the stumbling of the progressive cycle, all of which was the result of the disqualification of the international story, which brought the story to the end of the agreement. It has been concluded that, in addition to the Argentinian will to make it possible for the agreement to come into being, the end of the story of the progressive cycle was brought to bear in mind that, since the end of the agreement, there was a stumbling to the trade agreement, which brought about the story of the agreement. ; Resumen El presente artículo busca comprender, mediante el último impulso al proceso de negociación entre el Mercosur y la Unión Europea llevado adelante durante la Presidencia de Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), cuáles fueron los rasgos fundamentales de la estrategia de relacionamiento externo del Gobierno conservador argentino.Para ello, se ha utilizado una metodología cualitativa recurriendo a fuentes oficiales, reportajes y notas periodísticas que permitieron entrever el proceso de negociación.Se ha podido concluir que además de la voluntad argentina para que la llegada del acuerdo fuese posible, debió producirse el cierre del ciclo progresista, sobre todo desde la destitución de Dilma Rousseff, hecho que puso en sintonía al Mercosur para llevarlo adelante.En el intercambio de compromisos quedó claro que el Gobierno argentino estuvo dispuesto a abandonar los obstáculos que habían existido desde la última posguerra en el ...