Publications
Books, Monographs:
“Role Theory in the Middle East and North Africa,” With Yasemin Akbaba. London: Routledge. Forthcoming, 2018
“An Expected Utility Approach to Energy Security in Eurasia,”SL Germany: LAP Press, 2017
Refereed Journal Articles
“European populist radical right leaders’ foreign policy beliefs: An operational code analysis,”with Erdem Ceydilek. European Journal of International Relations, DOI:10.1177/1354066119850254. (SSCI)
“An Application of Expected Utility Modeling and Game Theory in IR: Assessment of International Bargaining on Iran’s Nuclear Program,” All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace, Forthcoming. (ESCI)
“ Understanding New Middle Eastern Leadership: An Operational Code Approach,” With Sercan Canbolat. Political Research Quarterly, DOI: 10.1177/1065912917721744. (SSCI)
“Leadership Analysis at a ’Great Distance’: Using Operational Code Construct to Analyze Islamist Leaders,” Global Society, Volume 31, Issue 2, 2017. (ESCI)
“From Good Neighbor to Model: Turkey’s Changing Roles in the Middle East in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring,” With Toygar Halistoprak and Erkam Sula. Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol. 11, Issue 42, Summer 2014. (SSCI)
“Religious Discrimination and International Crises: International Effects of Domestic Inequality.”, with Yasemin Akbaba., Foreign Policy Analysis,, Volume 10, Issue 4, p. 413-430. October 2014. First published online 2 May 2013. (SSCI)
“A Divided Government, an Ideological Parliament, and an Insecure Leader: Turkey’s Indecision about Joining the Iraq War”, with Zeynep Taydas, Social Science Quarterly,, Volume 00, Number 0, xxxx 2012 (SSCI)
“Security and Military Balance in the Black Sea Region”, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 2010, p. 341-359 (SSCI)
“Uneasy Neigbors: Turkish-Iranian Relations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution”, with Nihat Ali Özcan, Middle East Policy, Vol 17, No.3, Fall 2010, p.101-117. (SSCI)
“English School Theory of International Relations: Its Origins, Concepts, and Debates”, with Balkan Devlen, Uluslararası İlişkiler, 7, No. 25, Spring 2010, p. 43-68. (SSCI) (In Turkish)
“Iran’s Nuclear Program and Future of US-Iranian Relations”, with Nihat Ali Ozcan, Middle East Policy, Vol. 16, Issue 1, (2009): 121-133. (SSCI)
“Modeling Foreign Policy and Ethnic Conflict: Turkey's Policies towards Syria”, with Carolyn C. James, Foreign Policy Analysis 5, Issue 1, (2009): 475-494. (SSCI)
“Theorizing Terrorist Behavior: Major Approaches and Their Characteristics” Defence Against Terrorism Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, (Fall 2008) 89-101
“Contributions of Game Theory to International Relations Literature”, Uluslararasi Iliskiler, 4, Issue 15 (2007): 33-66. (in Turkish)
“The English School, International Relations and Progress”, with Balkan Devlen and Patrick James, International Studies Review 7 (2005): 171-197.
“Religion
as a Factor in Ethnic Conflict: Kashmir and Indian Foreign Policy”,
with Carolyn C. James,
Terrorism and Political Violence 17 (2005): 447-467. (SSCI)
Reprinted in Jonathan Fox and Shumel Sandler eds.,
Religion in World Conflict
(London: Routledge 2006).
Refereed Book Chapters
“Domestic Sources of Changing Turkish Foreign Policy towards the MENA during 2010s: A Role Theoretic Approach”, in Contested Roles and Domestic Politics. Eds. Christian Cantir and Juliet Kaarbo. 2016.
“What Should Turkey do to Stabilize the Black Sea Region?”, in Anahit Shirinyan ed.,
Unrewarding Crossroads: The Black Sea Amidst the European Union and Russia. Sofia Platform. 2015.
“Leadership Analysis at a ‘Great Distance’: Using Operational Code Construct to Analyze Islamist Leaders.”, with Eds. Valerie M. Hudson and Klaus Brummer. (Forthcoming in 2013.)
“Ethnicity, Religion and Foreign Policy: Turkish-Syrian
Relations since the 1980s"
with Yasemin Akbaba, in Turkey Syria Relations: Between Enmity and Amity. Ed. Raymond
Hinnebusch and Özlem Tür. Ashgate Publications. 2013.
“Dış Politika Karar Alımı Sürecinde Lider Merkezli
Yaklaşım: Akılcı Tercih Kuramı ve Türkiye'nin Irak Savaşına Katılmama
Kararı" Ed. Rıdvan Kalaycı
ve Ertan Efegil. Dış Politika Teorileri Bağlamında Türk Dış
Politikasının Analizi. (İstanbul: Nobel Yayınlar, 2012) .
“The
United States and North Korea: Avoiding a Worst-Case Scenario”,
with Patrick James, in Ralph Carter ed.,
Contemporary Cases in U.S.
Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade (Washington, DC:
CQ Press, 2011).
"Energy, Security, and Foreign Policy" The International Studies Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert A. Denemark. Blackwell Publishing, 2010.
“Foreign Policy, Public Opinion and the Iraq War: The Turkish
Case”, with Zeynep Taydas,
International Public Opinion and the Iraq War, eds. Richard
Sobel, Bethany Barratt and Peter Furia. Forthcoming, 2010.
“Neoclassical Realism and Foreign Policy Crises”, with Balkan Devlen, in Annette Freyberg-Inan, Ewan Harrison, Patrick James eds. Rethinking Realism in International Relations: Between Tradition and Innovation. (Johns Hopkins University Press) 2009.
“The United States and North Korea: Avoiding a Worst-Case Scenario”,
with Patrick James, in Ralph Carter ed.,
Contemporary Cases in U.S.
Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade (Washington, DC:
CQ Press, 2007).
“Instructor’s
Manual” for “The United States and North Korea: Avoiding a Worst-Case
Scenario”, with Patrick James, in Ralph Carter ed.,
Contemporary Cases in U.S.
Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade (Washington, DC:
CQ Press, 2007).
“German Security
Policy in the 21st Century”, in Karl DeRouen and Uk Heo, eds.,
Defense and Security: A
Compendium of National Armed Forces and Security Policies
(Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio Publications, 2005).
Book Reviews
R.E. Harkavy and S.G. Neuman, Warfare and the Third World (Palgrave, New York, 2001), for International Politics 40, (March 2003): 165-167.
S. Razack. Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler
Society (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002), for American Review
of Canadian Studies 34, (Fall 2004).
Other Publications, Working Papers, Occasional Pieces
“Turkish-Iranian Relations after the Framework Agreement” published by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
“The Black Sea Region in the New Turkish Foreign Policy.” EDAM Black Sea Discussion Paper Series 2012/2. (The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) Ekonomi ve Dis Politika Arastirmalari Merkezi)
“Türkiye’nin Yeni Dis Politikasindan Karadeniz Bolgesi.” Ortadogu Analiz. Mayis 2012. (ORSAM: Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies)
Dissertation
The Great Game Redux: Energy Security and the Emergence of Tripolarity in Eurasia
