Conferences

by on October 8, 2021

INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

  • “Energy Security and Foreign Policy” LSE IDEAS Workshop, London School of Economics, October 5, 2022.
  • “The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Geopolitics in Central Eurasia” (co-author: Norman Graham), Michigan State University, June 10, 2022.
  • “Energy Security Challenges: Assessing Turkey’s Role in Changing Regional Dynamics,” Middle East Technical University, ODTÜ TEKPOL SolarTwins Seminars, May 27, 2022.
  • “EU-Turkey-Russia Energy Security Realm,” VIADUCT (Visibility of the Academic Dialogue on Turkey-EU Cooperation Invited Lecture) at Charles University (Online), Prague, December 17, 2020.
  • “Energy Transitions, Energy Security and Sustainability: Global Trends, Regional Context and Implications for Turkey,” Invited Lecture Series, Koç University, Istanbul, November 29, 2019.
  • Energy, Environment and Sustainability,” Sabancı University, Istanbul, February 13, 2019.
  • “The Turkey-Britain-US Triangle in World War II,” Britain, Turkey and World War II: Alliance, Conflict and Neutrality, BIAA, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, September 24, 2018.
  • “Energy Security, Climate Change and Sustainability: Global and Regional Challenges and Implications for Turkey” Keynote Lecture, Global Network of Management (GNAM) Alumni Event, March 14, 2018.
  • “Turkey and Russia in a Turbulent Middle East and Eurasia: Energy Politics and Regional Security Challenges” Stanford University, June 1, 2017.
  • “The Quest for Reconciling Energy and Human Security: Global Trends, Regional Context, and the Challenges for Turkey,” UC Irvine, March 2, 2017.
  • “Energy Politics and Security: Implications for Eurasia and Turkey,” Department of Political Science, San Diego State University, November 2, 2016.
  • “Walking on Thin Ice: Turkish-Russian Relations in a Turbulent Region,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, October 26, 2016.
  • “Challenges to Turkish-American Relations in a Turbulent Middle East,” Provost Lecture Series, Departments of Political Sciences and History, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, October 5, 2016.
  • “Energy Security and Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Turkey,” Oxford Round Table: Environment, Climate Change and Global Warming, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, July 23, 2015.
  • “Turkish- American Relations (1800-1952): Between the Stars, Stripes and the Crescent”, Stanford University, Mediterranean Studies Forum and CREEES, March 5, 2015.
  • “Turkish-Russian Relations in a Turbulent Region and the Challenges of Eurasian Energy Politics,” Stanford University, Mediterranean Studies Forum and Department of International Relations, March 3, 2015.
  • “Complex Dynamics of Turkish-Russian Relations and Energy Politics in Eurasia,” Cambridge University, CISA, November 20, 2014.
  • “Quest for Energy Security: Turkey’s Role in Eurasian Energy Politics,” Princeton University, October 9, 2013.
  • “Geopolitics of Energy in Central Asia”, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, May 21, 2013.
  • “The Role of Regional Powers in Energy and Water Politics in Eurasia: Cases of Azerbaijan and Turkey”, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, May 20, 2013.
  • “Turkey’s Policy and Posture on Energy in Eurasia,” Energy-Water Nexus in Eurasia, Michigan State University, May 5-7, 2011.
  • Keynote Speaker, “Dilemmas of Europeanization and Euro-Asianism in Turkish Foreign Policy” Sciences Po, International Policy and Leadership Institute (IPLI), Euro-Mediterranean Affairs Conference, Malta, March 10-11, 2011.
  • “Turkish-American Relations: An Alliance at Crossroads,” UC Davis, May 26, 2010.
  • “Quest for Energy in Eurasia: Turkey’s Role in Eurasian Energy Politics,” Stanford University, Dec. 4, 2009.
  • Revisiting Narratives of History: Enver Pasha’s Pan-Islamic and Pan-Turkic Quest,” Reform in the Mediterranean, University of Montpellier, June, 2007.
  • “Entrepreneurship and the European Union,” Junior Chamber International Turkey and Anadolu University, Eskisehir, March, 2006.
  • “Turkish-American Relations in the Interwar Era and the Contributions of Turkish Diplomats,” Annual Mica Ertegun Conference, Princeton University, April, 2003.
  • “NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue: Prospects for Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean,” Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens, January 2003.
  • “An Assessment of Recent developments in Turkey’s European Odyssey,” Near Eastern Studies Ertegun Seminar Series, Princeton University, December 2002.
  • “Reconfiguration of Identity in the Central Asian Republics,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, February 2002.
  • “Opening Pandora’s Box: Identity and Politics in Central Asia,” Center for International Studies, Princeton University, December 2001

SELECTED CONFERENCE AND PANEL PRESENTATIONS

  • “Split Regionalism in the Greater Black Sea: Limits of the embryonic Russo-Turkish Entente,” (co-author: Ariel Gonzalez Levaggi), WISC 2022 Conference (Hybrid), Buenos Aires, June 2022.
  • “Turkey´s role in EU´s energy supply – important puzzle piece or just another transit state?” VIADUCT (Visibility of the Academic Dialogue on Turkey-EU Cooperation Conference) Online Conference, Bridge over Troubled Waters: Researching and Teaching EU-Turkey relations, 22 October 2020.
  • “Energy Interdependence and Implications for Eurasia and Turkey” (co-author: Belgin San Akça), Turkish Foreign Policy in an Age of Global and Regional Turmoil, Koç University & LSE joint workshop, Koç University, Istanbul, February 7, 2020.
  • Chair and Discussant, “Foreign Policy, Intervention and International Law,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 17, 2019.
  • “Britain-Turkey-USA triangle at the Advent of the Cold War (1945-1952)” From Enemies to Allies: Britain, Turkey and NATO (1945-1960), Koç University, Istanbul, 26 September 2019.
  • Chair, “Britain, Turkey and the Middle East 1952-58,” From Enemies to Allies: Britain, Turkey and NATO (1945-1960) Workshop, Koç University, Istanbul, 26 September 2019.
  • “Role of Emerging Powers in a Transforming International Order: Brazilian and Turkish Initiative for a Nuclear Deal with Iran” International Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, March 26-30, 2019.
  • “Energy Politics: Challenges & Opportunities,” Expert Meeting, Istanbul, April 8, 2019.
  • “The Future of Turkey-EU relations,” FEUTURE Expert Conference, Bodrum, October 15-16, 2018.
  • “Energy Security, Climate Change and Sustainable Development,” 8th International Relations Council Conference, Antalya, May 3-6, 2018.
  • “EU-Turkey Relations: Energy and Climate Dimension,” FEUTURE, Horizon 2020 Synthesis Conference, Brussels, April 26-27, 2018.
  • Chair, “Peace and Stability in the Southeastern Europe and the Middle East,” Koç University, Istanbul, April 16, 2018.
  • “Energy and Climate Security Priorities and Challenges in the Changing Global Energy Order” (co-authors: Lorenzo Colantoni, Duygu Sever), FEUTURE, Horizon 2020 Conference, Barcelona, October 19-20, 2017.
  • “Energy Intervention and Energy Resources: When Does Energy Fuel Support of Rebels?” (co-authors: Belgin San Akca, Duygu Sever) International Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, February 21-25, 2017.
  • Conference Plenary Session Speaker, “The Interplay between History and International Relations,” Two Hundred Years Since the Congress of Vienna: The State of International Relations as a Discipline and Alternative World Views, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, 22-24 October, 2015.
  • “Energy Security Challenges in the Mediterranean and Eurasia: Assessing the Turkish Role in Changing Regional Dynamics,” 8th International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, Athens, ATINER, March 30, 2015.
  • “The Political Economy of BRICS and near-BRICS in an Emerging Global Order: Co-operation and Conflict in Turkish-Russian Relations,” International Studies Association- FLASCO Conference, University of Buenos Aires, July 24, 2014.
  • Chair, “A Global Resource-Collaboration & Competition”, When China Meets Turkey: Energy Matters, Koç University, December 5, 2012.
  • “Restoring Brotherly Bonds: Turkey-Azerbaijani Energy Relations,” PONARS Eurasia Conference, Washington D.C., September, 13-14, 2012.
  • “Energy Security, Human Security and Turkey’s Role in Eurasian Energy Politics”, Istanbul Human Security Conference, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, October 27-28, 2011.
  • “Changing Dynamics of Turkish-Russian Relations: Energy Security and Turkey’s Role in Eurasian Energy Politics,” PONARS Eurasia Conference, Washington D.C., September 8-11, 2011.
  • “Political Economy of Energy in Eurasia: Energy Security and Turkey’s Role in Eurasian Energy Politics,” WISC Conference, International Studies Association, Porto, August 17-20, 2011.
  • “Iran and the Future of Turkey-US Relations,” Next-Generation Dialogue, Hollings Center and Istanbul Policy Center, Istanbul, October 22-24, 2010.
  • “Hydropolitics in the Tigris and Euphrates River Basin and the role of the European Union,” (co-author Bahar Rumelili), Eurasia in a Shifting Global Context: Building Interdisciplinary Bridges, Istanbul, 18-21 June 2009.
  • Chair, “Russia’s Eurasian Energy Policy” The Changing Politics of Energy and Security in Eurasia, PONARS Eurasia Conference, Istanbul, April 30-31, 2009.
  • “The Role of Turkey in Eurasian Energy Politics,” The Changing Politics of Energy and Security in Eurasia, PONARS Eurasia Conference, Istanbul, April 30-31, 2009.
  • “Turkey: Forging a Common Agenda for a Defining Moment,” Aspen Strategy Group, Ankara, 24-25 Apr 2009.
  • “Water Resources in the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin and the European Union,” (co-author Bahar Rumelili), 2nd Global Studies Conference (WISC), Ljubljana, July 2008.
  • “Political Economy of Energy in Eurasia,” Koç-MSU Workshop on Eurasian Energy Politics, Koç University, Istanbul, June 2008.
  • “The Role of Turkey in Euro-Mediterranean Security: Challenges and Opportunities,” International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, March 2008.
  • “Role of Enver Pasha in the pan-Islamic and the Basmachi Movement,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference (MESA), Boston, November 2006.
  • “Turkey’s Role in Euro-Mediterranean Security,” Instituto Affari Internationale, Euro-Mediterranean Security Conference, Rome, Italy, September 2005.
  • “Turkey-EU Relations in Perspective: Domestic and Foreign Linkages,” ECPR Standing Group on European Politics, Second Pan-European Conference, Bologna, Italy, June 2004.
  • “Southeast Europe: Sharing the Future as a Community of Constitutional Values,” RIGAS Network Closing Conference, Center for European Constitutional Law, Athens, March 2003.
  • “Political Changes in Turkey and their Impact on Turkish Foreign Policy,” International Lisbon Conference, Instituto de Estudos Estrategicos e Internacionais, November 2002.
  • “Reconfiguration of Power Structures in Central Asia,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference (MESA), San Francisco, November 2001.

ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

  • Turkish Foreign Policy in an Age of Global and Regional Turmoil, (jointly organized by Koç University and the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics), Koç University, Istanbul, February 7, 2020.
  • From Enemies to Allies: Britain, Turkey and NATO (1945-1960) Workshop (jointly organized by Koç University, British Institute at Ankara, BIAA and British Association for Turkish Area Studies, BATA), Koç University, Istanbul, 26-27 September, 2019.
  • 8th International Relations Council Conference, Member of Scientific Board of Organizational Committee, May 3-6, 2018.
  • Political Change in the Arab World: Internal Dynamics and Regional Actors, Arab Reform and Democracy Fifth Annual Conference, Stanford University and GLODEM, Koç University, Istanbul, 27-28 March, 2014.
  • When China Meets Turkey: Energy Matters, Koç University, Istanbul, December 5, 2012.
  • The Changing Politics of Energy and Security in Eurasia, PONARS Conference, Istanbul, April 30-31, 2009.

ACADEMIC DISSEMINATION

  • VIADUCT Webcast Series on EU-Turkey energy relations, Spring 2021.
  • “Turkey-US-NATO Triangle” Security Through Cooperation Project (SECOP) Video, Spring 2021.