Bahadir Kaleagasi
Dr Bahadir Kaleagasi is President of the Bosphorus Institute (Paris–Istanbul) and lecturer at the Galatasaray University on the international economic relations, sustainable development, and the European integration. He is also Brussels Energy Club’s Honorary President, scientific member of the Brussels University’s Institute of European Studies and board or advisory member in several institutions, including the ECFR-European Council on Foreign Relations, The Atlantic Council, Argüden Governance Academy, Global Relations Forum, Kalangos Foundation, Yanindayiz/HeForShe, Women on Board Association, Forum Istanbul, Berlin Bosphorus Initiative…
Graduate of Brussels and Istanbul Universities, he was a researcher and lecturer in the Center for International & Strategic Studies and the Institute for European Studies of the University of Brussels, rapporteur for projects of the European Commission’s Forward Studies Unit and the intergovernmental conferences which prepared the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and was visiting researcher to Harvard, Georgetown, and Jerusalem Universities. His academic work covered the areas of the EU’s decision-making system, transatlantic relationship, and the international economic relations.
He also served as counselor for various public and private institutions before joining TÜSİAD (Turkish Industry & Business Association) in 1995 as EU Representative in Brussels and by 2007 as International Coordinator establishing and supervising representative offices and networks in Washington DC, Paris, Berlin, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Silicon Valley/San Francisco and Dubai/Gulf. Between 2016 and 2020 he served as Board Member and CEO of TÜSİAD as well as member of BusinessEurope’s Executive Committee (The Confederation of European Business) in Brussels and delegate for Business@OECD and B20/Global Business Coalition.
He regularly contributes as speaker to international conferences, executive and academic seminars and media programs on the global trends, international/intercultural relations, business and investment strategy and the SDGs (sustainable development goals).
Bahadir Kaleagasi is author of several articles and books on the international relations and European affairs. His latest books are “Youth’s Questions on Europe”, “The Planet G20” and “Changing World and Turkey”.
Graduate of Brussels and Istanbul Universities, he was a researcher and lecturer in the Center for International & Strategic Studies and the Institute for European Studies of the University of Brussels, rapporteur for projects of the European Commission’s Forward Studies Unit and the intergovernmental conferences which prepared the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and was visiting researcher to Harvard, Georgetown, and Jerusalem Universities. His academic work covered the areas of the EU’s decision-making system, transatlantic relationship, and the international economic relations.
He also served as counselor for various public and private institutions before joining TÜSİAD (Turkish Industry & Business Association) in 1995 as EU Representative in Brussels and by 2007 as International Coordinator establishing and supervising representative offices and networks in Washington DC, Paris, Berlin, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Silicon Valley/San Francisco and Dubai/Gulf. Between 2016 and 2020 he served as Board Member and CEO of TÜSİAD as well as member of BusinessEurope’s Executive Committee (The Confederation of European Business) in Brussels and delegate for Business@OECD and B20/Global Business Coalition.
He regularly contributes as speaker to international conferences, executive and academic seminars and media programs on the global trends, international/intercultural relations, business and investment strategy and the SDGs (sustainable development goals).
Bahadir Kaleagasi is author of several articles and books on the international relations and European affairs. His latest books are “Youth’s Questions on Europe”, “The Planet G20” and “Changing World and Turkey”.
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Prof. Scott Lucas interviews Dr. Bahadir Kaleagasi
Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, is there a possibility for a “Society 5.0” in which progress is linked to global responsibility and security over the environment, healthcare, and social and economic justice?
Bahadır Kaleağası, President of the Paris Bosphorus Institute and Lecturer at Galatasaray University, talks with World Unfiltered about the challenges and the potential.
3:08: What is “Society 5.0”, both for a global economy and a global society?
7:30: How can get we to a “Global Society” when so much of our attention is focused on national markers such as GDP and stock markets?
9:40: Are there any countries shifting from a national-oriented growth approach to a more social, environmental, and transnational one?
14:00: To what extent has the tragedy of the pandemic opened up an opportunity for Society 5.0?
18:50: Hasn’t this pandemic raised the problem of nationalism even while we’ve been
Papers by Bahadir Kaleagasi
The challenge is to upload this historically well-tested algorithm into the twenty-first century: rebooting a version 5.0 of Turkey’s European integration with updates on democratic conditionality, foreign policy cooperation, and an economic framework, as well as on the digital, green, and social dimensions.
The Turkey debate’s focal point is “Europe’s geostrategic sovereignty.” Turkey should evolve to be a net contributor to Europe’s security and global competitiveness. No matter how significant today’s drawbacks are, such as the definition of freedom of expression and tensions like the life-consuming Cyprus imbroglio, the guiding question for the EU ought to be: “how can Turkey, in the near future, become a country that is progressively in convergence with the values and interests of European citizens?” This includes citizens of the Turkish Republic as well.
In this respect, beyond the narrow scope of the EU-Turkey relationship’s bilateral agenda, EU policies on Turkey may be filtered through the prisms of at least five major axes of change shaping Europe’s global role.
“Five B Effects”: Brussels, Biden, Berlin, Brexit, and Beijing
. . .
are pushing the EU toward an
unavoidable dilemma. The EU
ought to expand to include new
countries and reach a critical
size that will let it weather the
21st century. However, the EU
has to also be a stronger, more
unified political system whose
functional feasibility depends on
a limited number of countries in
advanced economic and monetary
convergence. The vicious
circle of “a globally competitive,
wider Europe” versus an “institutionally
efficient deeper eurozone,
with a limited number of
countries” can only be broken by
an innovative institutional engineering
in adopting a progressive
approach.
Prof. Scott Lucas interviews Dr. Bahadir Kaleagasi
Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, is there a possibility for a “Society 5.0” in which progress is linked to global responsibility and security over the environment, healthcare, and social and economic justice?
Bahadır Kaleağası, President of the Paris Bosphorus Institute and Lecturer at Galatasaray University, talks with World Unfiltered about the challenges and the potential.
3:08: What is “Society 5.0”, both for a global economy and a global society?
7:30: How can get we to a “Global Society” when so much of our attention is focused on national markers such as GDP and stock markets?
9:40: Are there any countries shifting from a national-oriented growth approach to a more social, environmental, and transnational one?
14:00: To what extent has the tragedy of the pandemic opened up an opportunity for Society 5.0?
18:50: Hasn’t this pandemic raised the problem of nationalism even while we’ve been
The challenge is to upload this historically well-tested algorithm into the twenty-first century: rebooting a version 5.0 of Turkey’s European integration with updates on democratic conditionality, foreign policy cooperation, and an economic framework, as well as on the digital, green, and social dimensions.
The Turkey debate’s focal point is “Europe’s geostrategic sovereignty.” Turkey should evolve to be a net contributor to Europe’s security and global competitiveness. No matter how significant today’s drawbacks are, such as the definition of freedom of expression and tensions like the life-consuming Cyprus imbroglio, the guiding question for the EU ought to be: “how can Turkey, in the near future, become a country that is progressively in convergence with the values and interests of European citizens?” This includes citizens of the Turkish Republic as well.
In this respect, beyond the narrow scope of the EU-Turkey relationship’s bilateral agenda, EU policies on Turkey may be filtered through the prisms of at least five major axes of change shaping Europe’s global role.
“Five B Effects”: Brussels, Biden, Berlin, Brexit, and Beijing
. . .
are pushing the EU toward an
unavoidable dilemma. The EU
ought to expand to include new
countries and reach a critical
size that will let it weather the
21st century. However, the EU
has to also be a stronger, more
unified political system whose
functional feasibility depends on
a limited number of countries in
advanced economic and monetary
convergence. The vicious
circle of “a globally competitive,
wider Europe” versus an “institutionally
efficient deeper eurozone,
with a limited number of
countries” can only be broken by
an innovative institutional engineering
in adopting a progressive
approach.