Serdar Ş. Güner
Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences
Biography
Serdar Ş. Güner obtained his PhD degree from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, the University of Geneva in 1990. His thesis is entitled: A Game Theoretical Analysis of Alliance Formation and Dissolution: The Case Study of the Relationship Among the United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China, 1949-1972. He spent the next two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Government, the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Department of International Relations, Bilkent University. He won Bilkent University Distinguished Teacher Award in 2002. Serdar Ş. Güner gave seminars and lectures on game theory and negotiation problems at various government agencies and participated to international conventions.
Research Interests
Game theoretic modeling in international relations, evolutionary processes, international relations theory.
Publications
Serdar Ş. Güner (forthcoming) "Uyuşmazlıkların oyun kuramsal modellenmesi: İran-A.B.D. nükleer anlaşmazlığı," in Nimet Beriker (ed.) Çatışmadan Uzlaşmaya: Kuramlar, Süreçler, ve Uygulamalar. Bilgi Universitesi Yayinlari.
Serdar Ş. Güner (2008) "Towards Evolutionary Explanations of Syrian-Turkish Water Dispute," in Ellen Wiegandt (ed.) Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge. Dordrecht: Springer.
Serdar Ş. Güner (2007) "Greek-Turkish Territorial Waters Game," in Rudolf Avenhaus and I. William Zartman (eds.) Diplomacy Games: Formal Models and International Negotiations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
Serdar Ş. Güner (2004) Aegean Territorial Waters Conflict: An Evolutionary Narrative. Conflict Management and Peace Science 21: 297-312.
Serdar Ş. Güner (2003)Oyun Kuramı ve Uluslararası Politika (Game Theory and International Politics). ODTÜ Gelişme 30:163-180.
Serdar Ş. Güner and Daniel Druckman (2003) Tushratta's Requests to the Pharaohs, in Guy Olivier Faure (ed.) How People Negotiate. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Serdar Ş. Güner and Daniel Druckman (2000) Identification of a Princess Under Incomplete Information: An Amarna Story."Theory and Decision 48: 383-407.
Daniel Druckman and Serdar Ş. Güner (2000) "A Social-Psychological Analysis of Amarna Diplomacy," in Raymond Cohen and Raymond Westbrook (eds.) Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations. Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Serdar Ş. Güner (1999) "Water Alliances in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin," in Steve C. Lonergan (ed.) Environmental Change, Adaptation, and Security. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Nur Bilge Criss and Serdar Ş. Güner (1999) Geopolitical Configurations: The Russia-Turkey-Iran Triangle."Security Dialogue 30:365-376.
Serdar Ş. Güner (1998) "Signalling in the Turkish-Syrian Water Conflict." Conflict Management and Peace Science 16:185-206.
Serdar Ş. Güner (1997) The Turkish-Syrian War of Attrition: the Water Dispute." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 20: 105-116..
Urs Luterbacher and Serdar Ş. Güner (1996) "Regional Freshwater Resources and Global Change," in Proceedings of Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme, Third Scientific Symposium.
Working Papers
Power Fluctuations in the Turkish Grand National Assembly
Balances of Power From Static Equilibria with A. Bülent Özgüler and
Nedim
M. Alemdar
Structure of Multipolar International Systems with A. Bülent Özgüler and
Nedim M. Alemdar
Papers in Progress
Game Theory Versus Constructivism: A Supportive View
Religion: A Determinant of Turkish Foreign Policy? (Co-author: Nil Şatana)
Supervised Graduate Students
Reşat Bayer
Zeynep Burcu Yavuz
Burcu Sarı
Mustafa Gürbüz
Didem Akan
Courses
IR 543 International and Public Policy
Decision Making
IR 413 Game Theory and International Politics
IR 442 Strategic Resolution of Conflicts
IR 333 Foreign Policy Analysis
IR 227 Research Methods
Address:
Bilkent University
Department of International Relations
06533 Ankara, Turkey
Phone:
90 (312) 290 20 70
Fax:
90 (312) 266 43 26
E-mail:
sguner@bilkent.edu.tr
URL:
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~sguner
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