Melike Janine Sökmen's scientific contributions

... These topics were therefore analyzed in the literature on enlargement and accession policy or neighborhood policy, even if this did not coincide with the EU's geographic definition of European Neighborhood Policy (e.g., chapters on 'Turkey and enlargement' in Weidenfeld & Wessels, 2005chapters on 'Wider Europe' in Copsey andHaughton, 2012-2014;Fraser, 2004;Rehn, 2006;Seufert & Fischer, 2018;Dürkop, 2018;Leiße & Tryk, 2004;Schimmelfennig, 2018;Tocci, 2014). With the diminishing role of the enlargement framework and tensions over Turkey's membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), research on EU-Turkey relations is likely no longer to be conducted primarily through the lenses of accession and enlargement, 1 analyzing domestic developments inside Turkey and Ankara's foreign relations, but increasingly shift back to classical concepts of International Relations (e.g., structural realism) or comparative government (e.g., hybrid regimes, authoritarianism, etc.) (e.g., Özerdem & Whiting, 2019;Talbot, 2018;Goff-Taylor, 2017;Morillas et al., 2018;White & Herzog, 2018). ...