The most significant feature of the long-standing relations between Türkiye and the EU is their up-and-down nature from the start and the parties’ commitment to maintaining the relationship within the context of a membership perspective despite sporadic crises Türkiye’s top strategic objective still is to become a member of the EU, despite the challenges in...

PROGRAMME (Lisbon Time, GMT +1) 10:00 Opening Ceremony • José Amado da Silva, Rector of the Autonomous University of Lisbon • Licínia Simão, Coordinator of the Atlantic Centre 10:15 Keynote Speech Chair: Francisco Proença Garcia, Research Centre of the Institute for Political Studies – Catholic University of Portugal’s (IEP-UCP) • Richard Higgott, University of Warwick,...

Glocalization in International Relations: How all foreign policy must begin at the local Recent polarization in geopolitics has very local roots, reflecting systemic misreadings of each other, but also fundamental growing inequality and injustices at the human and planetary levels Much of this relates to flaws in meta-thinking (worldviews) and local and national institutional inabilities...