Title:	Professor Dr.
Address:	Middle East Technical University, Department of International Relations, 06531, Ankara / TURKEY
Phone:	+90-312-2103087
Fax:	+90-312-2107983
E-mail:	polatn@metu.edu.tr

RESEARCH INTERESTS

International law, IR theory, philosophy of social sciences, current social and political theory.

COURSES PRESENTLY TAUGHT

• IR 224 Research Methods in International Relations
• IR 484 Critical Theories of International Relations
• IR 566 Theory and Event
• IR 555 European Regime of Human Rights
• GIA 107 Understanding Global Politics
• GIA 302 International Law

EDUCATION

1989-1994 Ph.D., Faculty of Law, Nottingham University.
1981-1985 B.A., Faculty of Law, Istanbul University.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• “European Integration as Colonial Discourse,” Review of International Studies, forthcoming.
• “Identity Politics and the Domestic Context of Turkey’s EU Accession,” Government and Opposition, (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2006), pp. 512-533.
• “Realignment in Turkey,” Internationale Politik (Vol. 5, No. 4, 2004), pp. 35-44.
• “Self-Determination, Violence, Modernity: The Case of the Turkish Cypriots,” in Thomas Diez (ed), Modern Conflict, Postmodern Union: The EU and the Cyprus Conflict (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 98-116.
• Boundary Issues in Central Asia (New York: Transnational Publishers, 2002).
• “Three Contemporaries: The ‘International,’ Bentham, and de Sade,” Social Text (Vol. 18, No. 4, 2000), pp. 1-23.
• “International Law, the Inherent Instability of the International System, and International Violence,” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Vol. 19, No. 1, 1999), pp.51-70.
• “The Real and the Formal: Legal Realism Revisited,” Social and Legal Studies (Vol. 8, No. 1, 1999), pp. 47-74.
• “Poststructuralism, Absence, Mimesis: Making Difference, Reproducing Sovereignty,” European Journal of International Relations (Vol. 4, No. 4, 1998), pp. 447-477.
• “Regressive Versus Progressive Self-Determination,” Peace Review (Vol. 10, No. 2, 1998), pp. 221-226.
• “The Law and Its Readings: Realism, Verifiability and the Rule of Law,” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Vol. 10, No. 30, 1997), pp. 293-316.
• “The Same and the Similar: Nihilism and Mimetic Hostility,” Law and Critique (Vol. 5, No. 2, 1994), pp. 219-239.

BOOKS IN TURKISH

• Ahlak, Siyaset, Şiddet: Bir Kuram Olarak Uluslararası Hukuk [Ethics, Politics, Violence: International Law as a Theory] (Istanbul: Kızılelma, 1999).
• Herkes İçin Demokrasi ve İnsan Hakları [Democracy and Human Rights Simplified] (Ankara: Liberte, 2004) (with I.D. Dagi).
• Devlet, Sistem ve Kimlik: Uluslararası Ilişkilerde Temel Yaklaşımlar [The State, the System, and Identity: The Main Theoretical Approaches to International Relations] (Istanbul: Iletisim, 1996) (with I.D. Dagi et al).