Turkey’s growing assertiveness on the international stage, difficulties with EU accession, rapidly rising economy, and the long and controversial reign of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) are all necessitating a need for analysis. The present study of the Centre for European Studies presents two papers which look at Turkey and the AKP from different perspectives. Svante Cornell’s paper argues that AKP has moved away from democratic reforms and that Turkey’s ‘zero problems with the n...

In the twenty-first century, Europe faces disruptive technological developments that have an immediate impact on its societies. The historyof mankind has seen several of these disruptions, such as the inventions of gunpowder, aircraft, tanks, weapons of mass destruction and missiles.Remotely piloted aircraft systems and cyber technologies pose the newest technological challenges of our time and this research paper provides answers as to how the EU and its member states should deal ...

World trade is recovering from its sharpest decline since the Great Depression. Europe remains the world’s leading trading entity, despite the crisis. The authors of this paper assert that the EU should not retreat to protectionism, but should rise to the post-crisis challenge. The paper assesses how Europe can do this through strengthening the single market, proposes various objectives for external trade policy and examines the need for greater political advocacy regarding the benefits of...

This book introduces the key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building, evaluation and prediction required for understanding and predicting future patterns of species and biodiversity. Beginning with the main theory behind ecological niches and species distributions, the book proceeds through all major steps of model building, from conceptualization and model training to model evaluation and spatio-temporal predictions. Extensive examples using R support graduate students an...

Regardless of how grown up we feel and present ourselves in many aspects of our lives, our child feelings and behavioral patterns deeply impact our daily lives, especially where emotions come into play. We may act as adults, but we feel like children. And yet we all come with an inner vision into this world, a very specific and unique potential that wants to unfold through us during the course of our lives. But through our internal life struggles, we often forget it and lose touch with it....

Like elsewhere in Europe, the crisis has affected economic developments in the Western Balkans, from Croatia in the north to Albania in the south. The countries in the region face difficulties such as high unemployment, decreased availability of bank credit and reduced trade. Furthermore, the inability of their political institutions to deal immediately with these economic challenges has reinforced the negative effects of the crisis. What does this mean for the Western Balkans’ accession t...

Many stories, myths, and folktales tell of "small-statured creatures" that we commonly refer to as "dwarves." The most interesting local stories about dwarves I've found so far are in Nordic mythology, which dates back thousands of years, in the ancient legends of Iceland and Scandinavia, as well as in the Alpine countries of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Most dwarf stories repeatedly point out that dwarves like to live in underground caves or deep in the mountains, where humans canno...

Sri Aurobindo has commented the lives and teachings of Krishna, Buddha, Christ and Ramakrishna in a large number of writings. In this present study his most important statements on the Avatars of the past are presented and discussed in detail along with utterances of the Mother which throw more light on the respective subjects. Thus we gain deep insight into Sri Aurobindo’s integral vision of the spiritual development of humanity and its future destiny.

WARNING: THIS BOOK COULD SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE, YOUR FORTUNE, AND YOUR REPUTATION!This is not a novel. It's a survival manual for the modern elite. Why are global elites — CEOs, politicians, influencers — secretly fighting to get their hands on it? You think you're untouchable? Think again.This psychological thriller, inspired by real events, exposes one of the most terrifying strategies ever deployed against powerful men: a silent war where the deadly weapon l...

Without a doubt, ufology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligences and clues are among the most fascinating concepts in the process of human understanding. It probably began in unknown times, when early humans were unexpectedly "confronted" with aliens and UFOs. This is evidenced, for example, by petroglyphs and figures that presumably depict such encounters or what they saw. Pre-astronautics, which we will come to later, even assumes that extraterrestrial intelligences visited Ear...

Anyone who deals with time anomalies and time travel almost automatically encounters ancient chronicles and legends about people who have consciously or unconsciously made a time leap. People who abruptly disappeared without leaving the slightest trace and only later returned. According to ancient Indian epics, there once even existed a special "spiritual meditation technique" that amplified the numerous magnetite crystals in the brain and the body's energy to such an extent that a magneti...

Discusses all the major aspects of automotive and engine lubrication - presenting state-of-the-art advances in the field from both research and industrial perspectives. This book should be of interest to mechanical, lubrication and automotive engineers, automotive and machinery designers as well as undergraduate and graduate students in these fields.