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Springer to publish new book series with the Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy

Series focuses on European and international relations

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Springer

Springer is launching a new book series called The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Series on European and International Affairs. The series consists of edited multiauthor 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 1 April 2009 at 6:30 pm in Room ASP A3E2.

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 just been published. The second volume, Reforming Europe: The Role of Central Right, also edited by Constantine Arvanitopoulos, will be available in late summer 2009.

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The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy (www.idkaramanlis.gr) was founded in Athens in 1998 with the aim of promoting the principles of liberal democracy and open market in the context of a modern welfare state. It is structured in five departments: International Cooperation, Publications, Research, Political Analysis and Political Academy. It is active both in Greece and abroad, organizing conferences, workshops and training seminars, conducting systematic policy-oriented research, and publishing books, working papers and a quarterly policy journal, among others.

Springer (www.springer.com) is the second-largest publisher of journals in the science, technology, and medicine (STM) sector and the largest publisher of STM books. Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media, one of the world's leading suppliers of scientific and specialist literature. The group publishes over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in over 20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and some 5,000 employees.

Book Series: The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Series on European and International Affairs, ISSN 1866-1270


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