STM publisher Springer, Germany, is set to launch a new book series called The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Series on European and International Affairs. The series consists of edited multi-author works dealing with contemporary political and socioeconomic issues of European and international concern. One to two volumes are planned per year. The first volume of the series, Turkey's Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy, will be officially presented at the European Parliament in Brussels on April 1, 2009.
Published together with the Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy (CKID), the new book series offers comprehensive, up-to-date accounts of the debates currently taking place in the field of international relations. The series is addressed to a wide audience including undergraduate and postgraduate students, scholars, think tanks and decision makers. Series editors are Professor Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Director General of the CKID and Chair of the Department of International and European Studies at Panteion University in Athens, Greece, and Nikolaos Tzifakis, Head of the International Cooperation Department at the CKID and Lecturer at the University of Peloponnese.
The first volume of the series, Turkey's Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy, edited by Constantine Arvanitopoulos, has been published. The second volume, Reforming Europe: The Role of Central Right, also edited by Constantine Arvanitopoulos, will be available in late summer 2009.
