Dr. Esra LaGro
CIRP COORDINATOR
lagroper@cirpint.org / lagroper@gmail.com
Research Interests
International Awards and Projects (selected list)
Academic Memberships and Affiliations
International Research Presence and Teaching
Courses (Undergraduate & Graduate)
Civil Society Involvement
Consultancy Experience
Selected List of Publications (Theme selection)
Newspaper & Periodical Articles and Media Presence
Research Interests (Interdisciplinary Approach)
EU Governance
Turkey-EU Economic and Political Relations
European politics -political culture of individual EU member states
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Turkey
European Economic Integration (European Economy)
EU Policies (Industry, Trade, Competition, SMEs)
International Academic Awards and Projects (Selected list of international projects)
EU Commission, Jean Monnet Chair Award for "EU Enlargement and Economic Governance", 2003.
EU Commission Academic Subsidy Award for EU Governance - "Creation of a New Generation of EU Governance: Towards Transparency and Accountability" - 2003 (This academic award has been given to the research project prepared and realized by Dr. Esra LaGro out of 317 projects all over Europe)
EU Commission, Jean Monnet Permanent Course Award on "European Economic Integration", 2002.
UNESCO International Award on "Representation of the Other in the Mediterranean Region: Towards Transparency and Accountability", 2001.
ECF International Project Award on "Europe 2000: Hopes and Anxieties", 1999. (member of the project team)
ECF, BYEGM - International Project Award on "The Image of the Turk in Europe since the Declaration of the Republic in 1923 until 1990s", 1997-1999. (member of the project team)
EU Commission Med-Campus Award, 1993. (member of the project team)
Council of Europe International Project Award on "A Common European Identity in a Multi-cultured Continent", 1991-1993.(member of the project team)
Academic Memberships and Affiliations
European Economic Association
Royal Economic Society, UK
Industrial Organization Society, USA
European Association of Research in Industrial Economics, Belgium
European Community Studies Association (ECSA) -TR (TUNAECS)
The Jean Monnet Network
CIRP- International Interdisciplinary Research and Policy Platform
International Research Presence and Guest Professorships (1996-2007)
College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.
Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Amsterdam University, the Netherlands.
Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses
European Politics
International Political Economy
EU Policies
EU Governance
Public Policy
Graduate Courses
EU Enlargement
Turkey-EU Economic and Political Relations
European Economic Integration
EU Economic Policies
Industrial Economics: A European Perspective
Civil Society Involvement
Turkish Society for Quality, EU Advisor (2003- )
Main theme advisor of 12th National Quality Congress convened with the theme "EU for the World Leadership" with the participation of more than 3000 people from all over the world such as policy-makers; opinion leaders; academia; business people; and the media. Currently author of monthly ONCE KALITE and writing on various EU related issues regularly.
Member of the Executive Board (2006-)
Corporate Governance Association of Turkey (TKYD), member
TUSIAD
Consultancy Experience
EU Consultant (1996 - ) worked on several national and international projects related to the EU affairs (overall project cycle management experience of more than 17 years) , founding partner of CENTS International Consulting (recently reorganized as PIRIGROUP), also private sector experience at several leading companies between 1987-1991 before joining academic life at Bogazici University Centre for Comparative European Studies, Istanbul.
EU Expert Evaluator for the EU 6th Framework Programme.
Selected List of Publications and Papers Presented in International Conferences (Theme selection)
Books
2007 Turkey and the European Union: Prospects of a Difficult Encounter, forthcoming by Palgrave- Macmillan EU Politics Series together with Dr. K.E. Jorgensen. http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=0230019552
2004 EU for the World Leadership: Towards New Global Governance? ,edited by Dr. E. LaGro (published by Turkish Society for Quality, and Turkish Businessmen and Industrialists Association) , September, Istanbul.
Various Articles and Research Reports: Selected List (to be updated !)
2006 “16. Benedict, Avrupa, İslam ve Türkiye: Akıl ve İnanç Birleşebilir mi? (Pope 16. Benedict, Europe, Islam and Turkey: Could Reason and Faith Merge? Jeopolitik, 5, 67-71.
2006 “EU Enlargement and Transforming Paradigms of Political Identity in Individual Member States: the Case of Austria” European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) 3rd Pan European Conference on EU Politics, No. 838 Istanbul. www.jhubc.it/ecpr-istanbul/virtualpaperroom/052.pdf
2005 “The Transformation of Mediterranean Identity: A Multidisciplinary and Dynamic Approach” in Representations of the ‘other/s’ in the Mediterranean Region and Their Impact on the Region, Nedret Kuran-Burcoglu and Susan Gibson Miller (eds.), Istanbul: ISIS Press.
2003 Can the EU Lead? and How? international and interdisciplinary academic report written for Turkish Society for Quality, September. http://www.kalder.org/genel/12ukk/MAINWORKSHOPREPORT.pdf
2003 “A Note on the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and the Role of Turkey”. EU-Turkish Relations Dossier, EUTR18/2003, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Observatory for External Political Relations of Europe, Spain. July. http://selene.uab.es/csiuee/catala/obs/dossierturquia/tkanalisis/eurtr182003lagro.pdf
2002 “Competition Policy Implementations with Reference to European and Turkish Cement Industry” Cement and the Concrete World, Vol.7 No:39.
2001 “Avrupa Birliği ve Türkiye Rekabet
Politikası: Avrupa Birliği BankacılıkSektörü Uygulamalarına Genel Bir Bakış” (A
General Outlook of the Turkish Banking Sector from view point of EU and Turkish
Competition Policy) in Türkiye Bankalar Birliği Bankacılar Dergisi (Journal
of the Banks’ Union of Turkey) No: 36, March.
http://www.tbb.org.tr/turkce/dergi/
Conference Papers: Selected List (to be updated !)
2006 “A Multidimensional Analysis of Cross-Cultural Existence in the Mediterranean: Present Facts and Future Prospects” International CIRP-UNESCO Symposium on Enhancing Multidimensional Dialogue and Innovative Policy Making in the Mediterranean Region, 14-16 September, Istanbul, 2006.
2006 “Questioning the EU Accession Process and Europeanisation of Turkey: A Multidimensional Analysis” International Jean Monnet Workshop on Europeanisation II, 25-26 May, Istanbul.
2006 “Challenges of the EU Enlargement and Turkey: Reflections and Policy Recommendations for the Process of Accession Negotiations” International Symposium on the Changes and Transformations in the Socio-Economic and Political Structure of Turkey in the EU Negotiations, 16-18 March, Dumlupınar University, Kütahya.
2005 “Economics of Accession Process: Lisbon Targets and a Sound Industrial Policy for Turkey” (Katılım Sürecinin Ekonomik Boyutu: Lizbon Hedefleri, Rekabet Gücü ve Türkiye için Tutarlı Bir Sanayi Politikası) paper presented in the International Jean Monnet Conference on Turkey’s Accession Negotiations with the EU: Prospects for Political, Economic and Social Transformation, 28-29 April, Istanbul.
2005 “Deneyimler Işığında Katılım Müzakerelerinin Genel Çerçevesi, Sürecin Kritik Noktaları ve Toplumsal Dönüşümün Değişik Aktörlerinin Sorumlulukları: Bizi Neler Bekliyor? (The General Framework of the Accession Negotiations, Critical Junctures of the Process and the Responsibilities of Various Actors of Societal Transformation) International Jean Monnet Workshop, Istanbul, 28-29 April.
2004 “Euro-Islam and Turkish Islam: Differences” Turkey, Europe and Islam , Amsterdam University ISHSS, 13 December, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2004 “Economics of Turkish Accession to the EU” Turkey, Europe and Islam, Amsterdam University ISHSS, 13 December, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2004 “Democratisation in Turkey” European Integration and the Transformation of Turkish Democracy, 30 June, CEPS, Brussels, Belgium, (discussant).
2004 “Economic Aspects of EU Membership” Turkey in the European Union: Beyond Prejudice, Maastricht School of Management, 4-5 April, Maastricht, The Netherlands, (discussant).
2004 “European Union and Turkey: An Economic Dilemma?” Danish Institute of International Studies Conference on Turkey’s Long Journey into Europe, 2 April, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2004 ”AB’ye Uyum Sürecinde Türkiye’nin Değişimi: Rekabet Gücü ve Değişime Yönelik Politika Arayışları”, (The Transformation of Turkey in Harmonization with the EU: Policy Search for Change and Increased Competitiveness), Mükemmelliği Arayış Sempozyumu “AB Sürecinde Türkiye’nin Değişim Gücü”, Türkiye Kalite Derneği, KalDer, Izmir, 25 April.
2004 “AB’de Rekabet Edebilirlik, Girişimcilik, ve Geleceği Şekillendirme Yönündeki Politika Arayışları: Türkiye Üzerine Önermeler” (Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, Policy Search for Shaping the Future: Projections for Turkey) 13. Ulusal Kalite Kongresi, Istanbul, 24 November.
2004 “Türkiye için Sanayi Politikası” (An Industrial Policy for Turkey) 13. Ulusal Kalite Kongresi, Istanbul, 25 November.
2003 “An Insight to the Dynamics of a Possible World Leader: The EU Industrial Policy”, International Workshop on EU Economic Policies and Economic Governance, 16 September, Istanbul.
2003 “Understanding Progressive Governance: Turkey-EU Relations in the New Millennium” International Conference on EU Governance, Enlargement and Turkey, 16-17 May, Istanbul.
2001 “The Transformation of the Mediterranean Identity: A Multidimensional Approach”, International Workshop on Identity and Otherness in the Mediterranean World, Yeditepe University, 20-21 December, Istanbul.
2001 “The Barcelona Process and Its Political and Economic Impact” International Workshop on Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Policy in the Making held at Boğaziçi University, 6-7 September, Istanbul.
Newspaper & Periodical Articles and Media Presence: Selected List
Periodical Articles (in Turkish)
2007
"Dünya Vatandaşlığı ve Biz..." Prizma, Önce Kalite, 17, No. 115.
"Yaşam Kalitesine Dair..." Prizma, Önce Kalite, 17, No. 114.
"Gerçek Liderler, Toplumsal Sorumluluk ve Ötesindekiler..." Önce Kalite, 17, No. 113.
"Yaratıcı Bireyler, Yenilikçi Toplumlar ve Biz...." Prizma, Önce Kalite, 17, No. 112.
"Neşeye Ağıt” ve “Farklılıkta Birleşmek”: Türkiye Gerçekten Avrupalı Ama Çoğu Zaman Farkında Değil!" Prizma, Önce Kalite, 17, No. 111.
"Avrupa 2006 Yenilikçilik İndeksi Sonuçlarının Ardından... Avrupa ve Dünya Ölçeğinde Neredeyiz?" Prizma, Önce Kalite, 17, No. 110.
"Türkiye'de Kaliteye Yatırım Yapmak..." Prizma, Önce Kalite, 17, No. 109.
"Vatandaş/Müşterinin Memnuniyet Anketi: Seçimler" Prizma, Önce Kalite, 17, No.108.
"Değişimin Doğrultusu" Prizma, Önce Kalite, 17, No.107.
2006
“Yeniyi harekete Geçirmek: Küresel Yönetime Yönelime Dair Bazı Düşünceler” Önce Kalite, 15, No. 105.
“AB ile Üyelik Sürecinin Birinci Yılında Neredeyiz” Önce Kalite, 15, No. 104.
“Düşünce Kalitesi, Türkiye ve Marcus Aurelius” Önce Kalite, 15, No. 103.
“Dünya, AB ve Türkiye: Küreselden Yerele Yolculuk” Önce Kalite, 15, No. 102.
“Kamuda Kalite: Doğru Tanımlanmış Demokrasi, Vatandaşlık Bilinci ve İlkeli Takım Çalışmasıyla Geleceğe” Önce Kalite, 15, No. 100.
“AB Vatandaşlığı Çizgisine Doğru Kısa Bir Ufuk Turu” Önce Kalite, 15, No. 99.
“Lizbon Kriterleri ve Bilgi Toplumu: Yaratıcılık Olgusu AB Müzakere Sürecindeki Türkiye için Ne İfade Etmeli?” Önce Kalite, 15, No. 98.
“AB ile Müzakere Süreci Adı Verilen Toplumsal Dönüşüm Yolculuğuna Davet”, Önce Kalite, 14, No. 97
2005
“Avrupa Birliği Sürecinde Türkiye: Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Dönüşümün Doğrultusu ve Geleceğe Yönelik Önermeler”, Dönüşen Türkiye 2005, Interpro, İstanbul.
“AB Müzakere Sürecinde Şirketler ve Sanayi Politikaları Başlığı:Kapsam ve Sürece Dair Kısa Önermeler”, İşletmelerde Evrim, Kasım.
"Avrupa Birliği ile Müzakere Sürecinde Toplumun Değişik Kesimlerinin Rolü ve Sorumluluğu", Çalıştay Raporu (S.Yedievli ile birlikte), Önce Kalite, Temmuz. http://www.kalder.org/page.asp?pageID=1251
2004
“Türkiye 2004: Endişe ve Umutlar”, Önce Kalite, 12.
“Dinamik ve Evrilen Bir Katkı Süreci” Önce Kalite, 11.
Newspaper Articles and Interviews (Selected List)
“Rekabet Gücü, Bilgi Toplumu, AB ve Türkiye” Köşe Yazısı, Referans, 22–23. 07.2006.
“AB Dönem Başkanı Avusturya Israrlı Bir Türkiye Karşıtı Değil” Röportaj, Dünya, 06.02.2006.
“Türkiye’nin İstikrarı AB Üyeliğine Bağlı” Dünya, Röportaj, 04.10.2005.
“Turkey on the Eve of Accession Negotiations, NIKKEI (Japonya), 28.06.2005.
“Avrupa Birliği ve Türkiye’nin Rekabet Gücü”, Radikal, Röportaj, 24.11.2004
“EU-Turkey Accession Negotiations” NIHON KEIZAI SHIMBUN (Japonya), 18.12.2004.