Curriculum Vitae

Dissertation: From Strangers to Allies: Turkish-American Relations (1800-1952)

Areas of Specialization and Interest: International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Middle Eastern Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, Eurasian Politics, Sustainable Development, European Security and Foreign Policy, Energy and Natural Resource Politics.

M.A. in Near Eastern Studies and International Relations

Thesis: Bridge over Troubled Waters: Hydropolitics of the Tigris and Euphrates

B.A. in International Relations

Valedictorian

• Leads CASE & GSB efforts in Strategic Planning, Faculty Management, Program Design and Improvements, Financial Management, Sustainability, Internationalization, and Accreditations (Koç University has Triple Crown Status with EQUIS, AMBA, and AACSB Accreditations. In June 2022, Koç University successfully received EQUIS 5-year re-accreditation).
• Serves as a CEMS Global Alliance in Management Education Strategic Board Member and a member of the working group on Teaching New Business Models with a specific focus on climate change.

Professor of International Relations, Koç University 

• Graduate School of Business (GSB): Teaches Foreign Policy Analysis for Business Leaders for MBAs and Business and Government for Executive MBAs; Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa and Foreign Policy Analysis for Global Leaders at the Global Network of Advanced Management (GNAM) Program.
• College of Administrative Sciences and Economics (CASE) and Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities (GSSSH): Teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses on Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish-American Relations, and History of Political Thought
• Executive Education: Conducts seminars and training for managers, including C-Level executives, for leading companies in the Executive Education programs on topics including International Strategy, Geopolitical Trends, Foreign Policy Analysis, Energy Politics, and Sustainability.

2018-present

• Taught undergraduate and graduate level courses on Turkish Foreign Policy, History of Political Thought, Government and Business, and Foreign Policy for Global Leaders
• Lead Curriculum Management and Assurance of Learning Efforts at CASE & GSB; Contributed to CASE Strategic Planning; Along with the Dean led AACSB Accreditation Process efforts reaching a successful conclusion in 2021; CASE&GSB received ‘Triple Crown Status’ (with EQUIS, AMBA & AACSB Accreditations) in 2021 granted to less than %1 of Business Schools globally

• Conducted research on Energy Politics, Energy and Human Security, Middle Eastern and Eurasian Politics with a joint appointment at the Department of Public Policy and the Luskin Center for Innovation.

• Taught undergraduate and graduate level courses on Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish-American Relations, History of Political Thought and Advanced Topics in European Studies
• Taught Foreign Policy Analysis for Business Leaders at the Graduate School of Business (GSB) and Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa in the Global Network of Advanced Management (GNAM) Program

• Conducted research on Eurasian and Middle Eastern Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Energy Politics in Eurasia at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

• Taught undergraduate and graduate level courses on Advanced Topics in European Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish-American Relations and History of Political Thought.

• Taught undergraduate and graduate level courses on Advanced Topics in European Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish-American Relations, Politics of the Former USSR, and History of Political Thought.

• Conducted research (fully funded by Princeton) on a comparative analysis of political and economic transformation, as well as interaction of state, society, and religion in the Central Asian republics.

• Post-Doctorate research at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
• Worked on a project on the role of third-party mediation in conflict resolution focusing particularly on the U.S. role in Turkish-Greek relations and interactive-problem solving techniques.

• Provided research assistance and policy recommendations for the Economic, Technological, and Environmental Affairs Committee.

• Worked on projects for the improvement of political and economic aspects of Turkish-American Relations.

• Assistant in instruction for the course on the history and politics of the modern Middle East; Assistant in instruction for Turkish Language

• Dean, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koç University
• Director, Graduate School of Business, Koç University

2021-present

• Associate Dean, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koç University

• Academic Council Member, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koç University
• University Executive Council Member, Koç University

2021-present

• University Academic Council (Senate) Member, Koç University

• University Coordination Committee Member, Koç University

• Assurance of Learning and Quality Assurance Committee Director, CASE

• CASE Accreditation Committee Member

• CASE Strategy Committee Member

• CASE Curriculum Committee Member

• Chair, Koç University Academic Committee, Stanford BOSP-KU Joint Program

• Koç University International Undergraduate Student Selection Committee

• Diplomacy Track Co-advisor, Koç University

• Digitalization Project Task Force Member (CASE)

• International Relations (IR) Department Recruitment and Preliminary Assessment Committee Member

• IR Department PhD Comprehensive Exam Committee Member, Political Theory

• IR Department Graduate Student (PhD) Selection Committee Member 
• EURAXESS HR Excellence in Research Working Group Member, Koç University

2020-2021

• Executive Board Member, Center for Globalization and Democratic Governance (GLODEM)

• Advisory Board Member, Koç Office of Learning and Teaching (KOLT)

• Associate Director, Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities (GSSSH), Koç University

• University Academic Council Member, Koç University

• University Executive Council Member, Koç University

• University Coordination Committee Member, Koç University

• Acting Director, Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities (GSSSH), Koç University

• Executive Board Member, Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities (GSSSH), Koç University

• Executive Member, Koç University Student Clubs Supervision Board, Koç University, 

• Member, Center for Global Public Law

• Koç University 20th Anniversary Celebrations Committee Member

• Co-Director of the International Relations Graduate Program

• ERASMUS and Bologna Process IR Department Coordinator

• Coordinator of the Foreign Policy Analysis Research Unit, Center for Globalization and Democratic Governance (GLODEM)

• Advisory Board Member, Central Asian Studies Institute, American University of Central Asia

• Career Center Advisory Board Member

• International Relations Departmental Coordinator

• Co-director of the International Relations Graduate Studies Program

• Executive Board Member, Social Sciences Institute, Koç University

• Faculty Council Board Member, Koç University

• Academic Coordinator, Princeton Global Seminar on “Islam, Empire and Modernity,” The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University and the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC), Koç University

• Academic Coordinator, Koç-Michigan State University Summer School

• Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) Social Sciences Working Group for the Project on “Foresights on the Future Trajectory of Social Sciences”

• Chairman of the National Education and Consulting Institute, Junior Chamber International, Turkey

• Coordinator of International Relations Seminar Series, Koç University

• Coordinator of IR/GLODEM Diplomatic Speaker Series

• Advisor of the Model United Nations Club

• Coordinator of the Koç-Harvard World Model UN Conference in Turkey

• KUTEM Best of the Year Energy Paper Award 2020 – KUTEM Special Award 2021 (co-authors: Belgin San Akca, Seda Duygu Sever)

• Koç University Outstanding Teaching Award, Koç University

• Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics (CASE), Koç University

• Prof. Dr. Baki Komsuoğlu Award in Social Sciences, Kocaeli University

• Distinguished Young Scientist Award (TUBA-GEBIP), Turkish Academy of Sciences

• Sabanci International Research Award, Brookings Institution and Sabanci University

• Junior Chamber International, Selection for International Senate Membership

• Center of International Studies and Institute for Transregional Studies Fellowship, Princeton University

• Ertegün Award in Modern Turkish and Ottoman Studies

• “Outstanding Young Person Award” (TOYP) in the Field of Political Science and Public Administration awarded by Junior Chamber International

• Highest Prize in “National Banking Competition” of Banks Association of Turkey

• Princeton University Scholarship (tuition & fellowship)

• Eximbank Academic Achievement Award, Valedictorian, Bilkent University

Princeton University, Full Scholarship (MA)

1993-1995

• Turkish-American Relations (1800-1952): Between the Stars, Stripes and the Crescent, Routledge, International Relations Series, New York and London, April 2015.

• A Proposal for a National Deposit Insurance Scheme for Turkey, (co-author Rıza Kadılar) Istanbul: Publications of Banks Association of Turkey, 1996

• “Does Natural Gas Fuel Civil War? Rethinking energy security, international relations, and fossil-fuel conflict” (co-authors: Belgin San Akça, Duygu Sever), Energy Research and Social Science, vol. 70, December 2020, 101690,  (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101690)
• “Revisiting the British-US-Turkey triangle during the transition from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, (co-authors: Dilek Barlas, Serhat Güvenç), December 2020, 20:4, 641-659.

• “The transformation of Britain-Turkey-United States relations at the advent of the Cold War (1945-1952)”, Middle Eastern Studies, vol.56, issue.5, September 2020, 56: 5, 714-729.

• “The Precarious Role of Emerging Powers in a Transforming International Order:  Brazilian and Turkish Initiative for a Nuclear Deal with Iran,” (co-author: Ariel Gonzalez Levaggi), International Politics (2019) 56: 457-476.

• “Middle Powers and Regional Powers.” In Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. Ed. Patrick James. New York: Oxford University Press, September 2017. (invited annotated bibliographic article)

• “Energy Dynamics in Turkish Foreign Policy: Asset or Liability?” (co-author: Duygu Sever-Mehmetoglu), Uluslararası İlişkiler/ International Relations, vol. 13, issue 52, 2016, pp.105-128.

• Managing the Transition from Pax-Britannica to Pax-Americana: Turkey’s Relations with Britain and the US in a Turbulent Era (1929-1947),” (co-author: Dilek Barlas), Turkish Studies, Vol.16, issue 3, 2016, pp. 449-473. 

• The Quest for Energy Security and Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Turkey,” Oxford Round Table, Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, 2016.

• “Turkey and Russia in a Shifting Global Order: Co-operation, Conflict and Asymmetric Interdependence in a Turbulent Region,” (co-author Ziya Öniş), Third World Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2016, pp.71-95. 

• “Turkey–USA Relations in an Age of Regional and Global Turmoil: Challenges and Prospects” (co-author Ziya Öniş), Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 2013. 

• “Turkey’s Quest for NATO Membership: Institutionalization of the Turkish-American Alliance,” Special issue: Greece and Turkey in NATO, Dimitrios Triantaphyllou and Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, eds., Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, vol. 12, no. 4, November 2012.

• “Gunboat Diplomacy: Turkey, USA and the Advent of the Cold War” (co-author Gül İnanç), Middle Eastern Studies, vol.48, no.3, May 2012. 

• “Between Europeanization and Euro-Asianism: Foreign Policy Activism During the AKP Era,” (co-author Ziya Öniş), Turkish Studies, vol.10, no.1, (Spring 2009): 7-24. 

• “Fighting the Specters of the Past: Ottoman Legacy in the Balkans and the Middle East,” (co-author Ipek Yosmaoglu), Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 44, no.5, (September 2008): 677-693. 

• “Greek-Turkish Rapprochement: Rhetoric or Reality?” (co-author Ziya Öniş), Political Science Quarterly, vol. 123, no.1, (Spring 2008): 123-149. 

• “In Pursuit of Elusive Glory: Enver Pasha’s Role in the Pan-Islamic and Basmachi Movements,” International Journal of Turkish Studies, vol.13, no.1-2, (July 2007): 185-202.

• “Challenging the Stereotypes: Turkish-American Relations in the Interwar Era,” Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 42, no.2, (March 2006): 223-237.

• “Turkey-EU-US Triangle in Perspective: Transformation or Continuity?” (co-author Ziya Öniş), Middle East Journal, vol. 59, no.2, (Spring 2005): 265-284. 

• “The Thorny Path: Turkey-EU Relations in Perspective,” Journal of Cyprus Studies, vol. 8/9, no. 22/25, (December 2003): 126-135. 

• “İki Dünya Savaşı Arasında Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri: “Korkunç Türk” imajı ile mücadele”, Şuhnaz Yılmaz, Toplumsal Tarih, Aralık 2003.

• “Aftermath of the War: The Iraq Policy of the US and Turkey,” (in Turkish, “Savasin Ardindan: Amerika’nin Irak Politikasi ve Turkiye’nin Konumu”), (co-author Gul Barkay), Foreign Policy, (May/June 2003): 32-37.

• “Implications of the War in Iraq for Turkey,” (in Portuguese, “Implicações da guerra no Iraque para a Turquia”) O Mundo em Portugues, 43 (4), (April 2003): 12-13.

• “At the Gates of Europe,” World Today, 59 (1), (January 2003): 9-12.

• “Implications of the Political Changes in Turkey,” (in Portuguese, “Implicações da mudança política na Turquia”) O Mundo em Portugues, 39 (4), (December 2002): 10-14.  

• “Newly Emerging European Security Architecture: Implications for Transatlantic Relations,” Insight Turkey, 3 (2), (April-June 2001): 141-152.

• “An Ottoman Warrior Abroad: Enver Pasha as an Expatriate,” Middle Eastern Studies (October 1999): 40-70.

• “Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Hydropolitics of the Tigris and Euphrates Dispute,” Istanbul University Journal of Social Sciences, 2 (1), (January,1995): 12-22.

• Special Issue: Turkey–US Relations, eds. (co-editor Ziya Öniş), Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 2013.

• “To Tango with the Bear: Turkey-Russia Relations in a Turbulent Region” PONARS    Policy Memo, Washington D.C., August 2021.
• “Turkey-EU Relations,” Turkey’s Transformation Map (co-authors: Selva Demiralp and Seda Demiralp), World Economic Forum (WEF), July 2019. (invited contribution)

• The Future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios, FEUTURE Project, Final Technical Report submitted to EU Commission, (co-Author: Project partners), March 2019.

• Energy and Climate Security Priorities and Challenges in the Changing Global Energy Order (co-authors: Lorenzo Colantoni, Duygu Sever) FEUTURE Policy Paper, No.5.2, EU Horizon 2020 Project, September 2017. 

• Energy and Climate Strategies, Interests, and Priorities of EU and Turkey, FEUTURE Policy Paper, No.5.2, EU Horizon 2020 Project, March 2017. http://www.feuture.uni-koeln.de/sites/feuture/user_upload/FEUTURE_5.2_Energy_and_Climate_Strategies.pdf.

• “Turkey: On Fault Lines,” World Policy Journal, Spring 2015. (Invited ISI-Opinion Piece)

• Türkiye’nin Enerji Verimliliği Haritası ve Hedefler (Mapping Energy Efficiency of Turkey and Targets), (co-author Metin Türkay, Belgin San Akça), KÜTEM Report, May 2012.

• “Restoring Brotherly Bonds: Turkey-Azerbaijani Energy Relations (co-author M. Tahir Kılavuz), PONARS Eurasia Policy Papers, Policy Memo No. 240, Washington D.C., September 2012. 

• Turkish-American Relations for a New Era: A Turkish Perspective, (co-author Soli Özel), TÜSİAD Report, Istanbul: April 2009.

• Hydropolitics of the Tigris and Euphrates Basin,” in Voice of Water, Hague: World Wide “Water Awareness Council Publication, 2000.

• “Kuşak ve Yol Girişimi,” TÜBİTAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi, TÜBİTAK Yayınları, forthcoming 2021.  
• “Diplomasi Tarihi” TÜBİTAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi, TÜBİTAK Yayınları, forthcoming 2021. 
• “Monroe Doktrini” TÜBİTAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi, TÜBİTAK Yayınları, forthcoming 2021. 
• “Revisiting Networks and Narratives: Enver Pasha’s Pan-Islamic and Pan-Turkic Quest,” Individuals and Social Change in the Muslim World: Trajectories of Subversives and Mavericks, Texas: Texas University Press, 2016, pp. 143-166.

• “Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin Kafkasya Politikaları,” Avrasya Üçlemesi-III: Kafkaslar 1989-2009, Mustafa Aydın ed., Istanbul: Nobel Yayınevi, 2012.

• “Türkiye-ABD İlişkileri,” XXI. Yüzyılda Türk Dış Politikası’nın Analizi, Faruk Sönmezoğlu, Nurcan Özgür Baklacıoğlu, Özlem Terzi, ed., Istanbul: Der Yayınları, 2012.

• “Active Diplomatic Engagements and Energy Politics: The Caspian, Azerbaijan, and the Gulf Region,” Russian and CIS Relations with the Gulf Region: Current Trends in Political and Economic Dynamics, Marat Terterov ed., Dubai: Gulf Research Center Publications, 2009. 

• “Turkey and the European Union: A Security Perspective,” Turkey and European Security, Giovanni Gasparini ed., Rome: Instituto Affari Internazionali Publications, 2007, pp. 51-64.

• “Modernity and Nationalism: Turkey and Iran in Comparative Perspective,” (co-author Fuat Keyman), Gerard Delanty and Krishan Kumar eds., Handbook of Nations and Nationalism, London: Sage Publications Ltd., 2006, pp. 425-437. 

• “Impact of Lobbies on Turkish-American Relations,” in Turkish-American Relations: Past, Present and Future, Mustafa Aydın, Çağrı Erhan (eds.), Routledge: New York, 2004, pp. 181-212.

• Transboundary Rivers of Turkey,” in Sınıraşan Sularımız, (co-author Rıza Kadılar), Tuna Taner ed., Manisa: Celal Bayar Foundation Publications, 1997, pp. 24-66.

Koç University started granting teaching awards in 2012. Dr. Yılmaz is the first recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics. In 2016, she received the highest teaching award in her institution granted to only one professor with the best teaching performance in the entire university.

Conducted seminars and trainings for all levels of managers, including C-Level managers, regarding Global Political Trends, Political and Economic Outlook after the Covid-19 Pandemic, Global and Regional Energy Dynamics, and Foreign Policy for Global Leaders for leading companies and programs, including Arçelik Global Manager, Indian Oil Corporation, Unilever, Allianz, Tekfen, Anadolu Sigorta, OYAK Maden Metalurji, Vestel Anadolu Efes and Zorlu Group.

INTL 525- Turkish Foreign Policy in the Global Context

INTL 525- Turkish Foreign Policy in the Global Context

WIBE Associate Deans Convening, AACSB Seminars, 18 March, 2021.  

• Ardahan Özkan Gedikli, “Political Economy of Foreign Aid During the AKP Period: Cases of Tunisia and Egypt,” Second year PhD Student, PhD expected 2023.
• Duygu Sever, “The Domestic and Global Context of Energy Preferences: Explaining the Choice for the Nuclear”, (co-Advisor: Prof. Yehia Khalil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University), PhD, December 2020. 

• Ariel Gonzalez Levaggi, “Confrontational and Cooperative Regional Orders: Engagement, Accommodation and Contestation in Central Eurasia and South America,” PhD, May 2018. (Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities Academic Excellence Award Recipient, 2018- Assistant Professor at the International Relations and Political Science Department of Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires)

• Emre Doğru, “International Political Business: How Firms Affect Foreign Policy”, (Second Advisor), PhD, November 2018.

• Benal Nazlı Üstünes, “Role of Legality in Norm Contestation Processes: A Comparative Study for Multidimensional Norm Change in Non-Refoulement and Human Protection Norms” (Second Advisor), Completed Comprehensive Exams, PhD July 2020. 

• Asylai Akiskeva, “Being a Woman in Central Asia: Gender-Based Violence as a Human Rights Concern and Prospects of Its Regulation,” Koç University Law School, PhD expected in 2023.
• İdlir Lidka, “Nationhood Cleavages and Ethnic Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Communist Bulgaria, Macedonia and Montenegro,” PhD, December 2019. 

• Mamedov Mamed Koshkarogly, “Negotiation Process on the Cyprus Problem (1992-2017),” PhD in Historical Sciences, Specialty 07.00.15 History of International Relations and Foreign Policy, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, June 11, 2019.

• Gülniyaz Tahralı, “From Energy Bridge to Energy Hub?: Evolving Discourses of Geopolitics of  Energy Transportation in Turkey (1991-2014),” Kadir Has University, Istanbul, December 9, 2018.

• Deniz Karcı Korfalı, “Duality in Context: Multi-Level Approach to Dual Citizenship in Turkey,” Koç University, Istanbul, November 2017.

• Mustafa Kutlay, “Reforming the Reactive States: A Comparative Political Economy of Greek and Turkish Crises,” Koç University, Istanbul, December 2014. (Currently Associate Professor at Political Science Department, City University, London)

• Gülşen Doğan, “Trajectories of Populism and the Future of Democracy in the Global South: A Comparative Study of Turkey and Brazil,” expected graduation June 2022.
• Tolunay Öndül, “Global Shifts and Military Aspects of Middle Power Politics: The Case of Turkey,” expected graduation December 2021.
• David Cain Day, “Faith and Doubt in Anatolia: American Diplomatic Perceptions of Turkey between 1957-1960,” MA in Comparative Studies in History and Society, November 2018. (Second Advisor)

• Efe Can Çoban, “Terrorism- Democracy Nexus: Is Democracy at Stake? A Mixed-method Approach on the Effects of Terrorism on Democracy,” July 2018. (Second Advisor)

• Muhammet Tahir Kılavuz, ‘The Old Elites Strike Back: The End of Political Liberalization under Khrushchev and Menderes,” December 2013.

• Cantay Çalışkan, “The Success Behind Renewable Energy: A Comparative Analysis of Germany, The United Kingdom, Brazil and Turkey,” July 2013.

• Cansu Güner, “Lead & Conquer: An Agent Based Analysis to Leadership Modelling,” (Second Advisor), September 2013.

• Aybüke Aksoy, ‘Water Cooperation: Comparative Cases of the Euphrates and the Nile” (Second Advisor), February 2013

• Attilla İlker Tuncay, “The Use of Social Media by Turkish Political Parties as a Tool for Political Communication”, October 2012

• Fevzi Eyinç, “Avrupa Birliği’nin Ortak Güvenlik ve Savunma Sisteminin Türkiye Açısından Değerlendirilmesi,” Stratejik Araştırmalar Enstitüsü Müdürlüğü, Mayıs 2011 (Thesis Advisor)

• Ebru Eren Webb, “To which Eurasia does Turkey Belong? A Comparative Analysis of Turkish Eurasianist Geo-Political Discourses”, April 2011. (Second Advisor)

• Liana Varon, “Emergence of Transnational Social Spaces and Rethinking Citizenship: The Case of Jewish Minority in Turkey”, September 2010

• Gülhan Aygün, “Civil Military Relations in Egypt and Turkey,” June 2009. (Second Advisor

• Taylan Çoban, “The Europeanization of Turkish-Greek Dispute,” September 2008

• Osman Şengün, “Turkey’s Future Possible Contributions to European Security Through its Participation in the EU Crisis Management Operations”, July 2008

• Kadir Onur Unutulmaz, “International Retirement Migration in Turkey: Dynamics, Implications and Prospects”, June 2007. (Second Advisor)

• Şaziye Burcu Giray, “European and American Policies Over Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Comparative Perspective: 1993-2003,” September 2006

• Nihat Şengül, “Towards a More Effective EU Conflict Prevention Policy: Lessons from Bosnia and Kosovo,” June 2006

• İzzet Nas, “Europeanization of Greece and Turkey in Comparative Perspective: The Role of Business Associations and Civil Society Organizations”, August 2006. (Second Advisor)

• Luke Rodeheffer, “Soviet Cultural Diplomacy in İran, 1942-1946: A missed Opportunity,” Comparative Studies in History and Society, Koç University, 2014 (Thesis Defense Committee Member)

• Burcu Yılmaz, “Türkiye’nin Güvenliği Bağlamında Kamu Diplomasisi: Irak Örneği”, Stratejik Araştırmalar Enstitüsü Müdürlüğü, 2012. (Thesis Defense Committee Member)

• Pınar Çolak, “Avrupa Birliği’nin Gelişen Sınır Politikalarının Türkiye’ye Etkisi” Stratejik Araştırmalar Enstitüsü Müdürlüğü, Mayıs 2011 (Thesis Defense Committee Member)

• “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.

• “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.

• 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.

Global Relations Forum

Global Relations Forum, Young Scholars Mentoring Program

International Political Science Association

Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus Network, Harvard University

UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING and SUPERVISION

Advises International Relations Department students, regularly conducts newcomer advising, international undergraduate student advising, and Independent Study and Honor’s Project Supervision

• Meryem Alekperov, Environmental Politics and Sustainability,           

INTL-495-01, International Relations

• Göktuğ Odabaşı, Emerging Technologies and International Security, INTL-495-01, International Relations

• Deniz Tokmakoğlu, Energy Security and Foreign Policy: Eastern Mediterranean Energy Politics, INTL 495-01, International Relations

• Sude Zoraloğlu, Energy Security and Sustainability, INTL-490-02, International Relations

• Derya Çalış, Belt and Road Initiative and Employment of Smart Power in Central Asia, Honors Project, HPIR-491-01, International Relations  

• Cansu Hatipoglu, Sustainable Development, INTL 495, International Relations                         

• Salih Berke Yalçın, Natural Resources and International Law, INTL 490-06, International Relations & International Law