Title:	Assoc. Professor Dr.
Address:	Middle East Technical University, Department of International Relations, 06531, Ankara / TURKEY
Phone:	+90-312-2102040
Fax:	+90-312-2107983
E-mail:	kaysegul@metu.edu.tr
Personal Web Page:	Link

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Politics of water resources; environmental change and international security; transboundary river basins management; international water law; regional development; international organizations, international regimes theory.

EDUCATION 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Global Security Watch-Turkey: A Reference Handbook, Mustafa Kibaroğlu and Ayşegül Kibaroğlu, Praeger Security International, Westport, 2009 (ISBN 978-0-313-34560-9).

• Building a Regime for the Waters of the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin, Kluwer Law International, London, The Hague, New York, 2002 (ISBN 90-411-1897-7).

• Water Development and Poverty Reduction, I. H. O. Unver, R. K. Gupta and A. Kibaroglu (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, London, The Hague, New York, 2003 (ISBN 1-4020-7431-X).

• “The Role of Epistemic Communities in Offering New Cooperation Frameworks in the Euphrates-Tigris Rivers System,” Journal of International Affairs, Spring/Summer 2008, Vol. 61, No.2, pp. 183-198.

•  “Assessment of the Irrigation Performance of the Transferred Schemes in Turkey,” B. Çakmak, A. Kibaroğlu, B. Kendirli and Z. Gökalp, Irrigation and Drainage, 2008.

• “Diverging Water Management Paradigms between Turkey and the European Union,” A. Kibaroğlu and V. Sümer, Water International, Vol. 32, No. 5, Special Issue, 2007, pp. 728-738.

• “Neo-Liberal transitions in hydropower and irrigation water management in Turkey: main actors and opposition groups,” Aysegül Kibaroglu, Argun Baskan and Sezin Alp, in D. Huitema, and S. Meijerink (eds.). Water policy entrepeneurs. A research companion to water transitions around the globe, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2009.

• “Transboundary water issues in the Euphrates–Tiger River Basin: Some  methodological approaches and opportunities for cooperation,” A. Kibaroglu, A. Brouma and M. Erdem, in N. Pachova, M. Nakayama, L. Jansky (eds.) International Water Security: Domestic Threats and Opportunities, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, 2008, pp. 223-252.

• “Socioeconomic Development and Benefit Sharing in the Euphrates-Tigris    River Basin,” in H. Shuval and H. Dweik (eds.) Water Resources in the Middle East: Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues-From Conflict to Cooperation, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007, pp.185-193.

• "An Institutional Framework for Facilitating Cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin," A. Kibaroglu and O. Unver, International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2000, pp. 311 – 330.

•  “Sınıraşan Nehirlerdeki Su Uyuşmazlıklarına Farklı Yaklaşımlar: Uluslararası İlişkiler Disiplini Ne Sunabilir?” Ayşegül Kibaroğlu ve Vakur Sümer, Uluslararası İlişkiler Akademik Dergi, Cilt 3, Sayı 12, 2007, ss. 21-48.