Faculty

Altunışık, Meliha (Prof. Dr.)(Chairperson)
Politics of the Middle East, Turkey and the Middle East, the international political economy of oil, politics of Caspian oil.


Bağcı, Hüseyin (Prof. Dr.)
Contemporary Issues in International Security, The New Order and The Security of Europe, Foreign Policy of Germany, Foreign Policy of Turkey.


Bedirhanoğlu, Pınar (Assist. Prof.)
Global political economy; social transformation in the Russian Federation; critique of the 'transition' discourse; Neo-Gramscian perspective in IR.


Bölükbaşı, Süha (Prof. Dr.)
Various aspects of Turkey's foreign policy. Relations with Greece, Cyprus, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. Central Asian politics.


Çitak Aytürk, Zana (Assist. Prof.)


Dağı, İhsan (Prof. Dr.)
Human rights, human rights and world politics, human rights and Turkey-EU relations, Democratization in Turkey, Islam and politics in the Middle East, Islam and politics in Turkey.


Eralp, Atila (Prof. Dr.)


Güneş, Şule (Assist. Prof.)
International law, international law of the sea, environmental law


Kahraman, Sevilay (Assoc. Prof.)
International organizations, organizations and processes of integration, political and organizational dynamics of European integration, European Security and Defense Identity, Turkey-EU relations.


Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül (Assoc. Prof.)
Politics of water resources; environmental change and international security; transboundary river basins management; international water law; regional development; international organizations, international regimes theory.


Onulduran, Judith (Lecturer)
Communication in International Relations.


Polat, Necati (Prof. Dr.)
International law, IR theory, philosophy of social sciences, current social and political theory.


Tanrısever, Oktay F. (Assist. Prof.)(Vice Chairperson)
Russian politics and foreign policy, Russia and the European state system, state-building and nation-building in the post-Soviet space, politics of federalism, politics of nationalism and ethnicity, theories of international relations and history of political thought.


Tayfur, Fatih (Assoc. Prof.)
Greek politics; economics and foreign policy in the 1990s, decision-making mechanisms and processes in Turkish foreign policy, democratic development and foreign policy of Spain in the 1990s, political-economy of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Europeanization and Democratization in Turkey; Greece and Spain.


Tsarouhas, Dimitris (Assist. Prof.)
Europeanization, European Social Policy and Social Dialogue, Labour Markets and Labour Relations, Sweden, Greece, Party Politics, Greek-Turkish relations, EU-Turkey relations.


Tür, Özlem (Assist. Prof.)(Vice Chairperson)


Türkeş, Mustafa (Prof. Dr.)
Political developments and security issues in East-Central Europe, the destruction of Yugoslavia, Turkish foreign policy, Kemalism, political and ideological tendencies in Turkey.


Yurdusev, Nuri (Prof. Dr.)
Theory and history of IR, British School, philosophy of history, European identity and Turkish identity, civilizations.

 

   
 


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