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The Turkish International Studies Association, a North America based organization, is a network of over 300 scholars working on Turkey. Founded in 2006, the Turkish ISA is an official cooperating organization of the International Studies Association (ISA) and organizes panels at the ISA Annual Conventions. Previously hosted at Arizona State University, the Turkish ISA is now hosted at Sabanci University. The main purpose of the Turkish ISA is to bring together international relations and political science scholars from all specialties and regions within the academe in order to expand awareness and understanding of international politics.

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Turkish ISA Roundtable in Montreal March 2011

Turkish Foreign Policy:Visions, Methods, Strategy

(from left to right)

Hasan Kosebalaban (Lake Forrest College)
Meliha Altunisik (Middle East Technical University)
Halit Mustafa Tagma (Sabanci University),
Mustafa Aydin (Kadir Has University),
Joshua Walker (Harvard University),
Fuat Keyman (Sabanci University)

December 2010

Turkish ISA will be sponsoring three panels at the International Studies Association in Montreal (Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - Saturday, March 19, 2011)

1. Turkish Foreign Policy:Visions, Methods, Strategy (Roundtable):

Joshua Walker (Brandeis University),
Meliha Altunisik (Middle East Technical University)
Mustafa Aydin (Kadir Has University),
Halit Mustafa Tagma (Sabanci University),
Hasan Kosebalaban (Lake Forrest College)
Fuat Keyman (Sabanci University)

2. Turkey-European Union Relations at a Crossroads? On a Troubled Present and an Uncertain Future.

Chairs: Fevzi Baban (Trent University), Birol Yesilada (Portland State University),
"Turkey’s Accession to the EU: The Case for a Different Partnership" by Isabel David,
"The Turkish Path towards the EU: Hope or Despair?" by Andre Matos,
"Is Turkey Really Drifting Away? Changes and Continuities in Turkey's Western Rrientation" by Ozlem Demirtas Bagdonas,
"Has the EU Accession Process Encouraged Democratization in Turkey?" by Maia Hallword and Tavishi Bashin.

3. Turkey in the Muslim World: Ideology and Pragmatism.

Chairs: Ramazan Kilinc (Michigan State University), Gokhan Bacik (Zirve University).
"Turkey as a Major Actor in the Middle East" by Hasan Kosebalaban,
"Identity and Domestic Context as Markers of Turkish Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkish Policy toward the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict" by Saban Kardas,
"Strategic Depth: Realist Geopolitics, Ideology, or Both?" by Faruk Yalvac,
"Reorganization of Geopolitics: Understanding the New Activism in Turkish Foreign Policy" by Alper Kaliber,
"A Paradigmatic Shift in Mutual Perceptions between Turkey and the Muslim World since the AK Party Came to Power in 2002?" by Berdal Aral.

April 2010

Videos of ISA Roundtable in New Orleans now online!

Watch the Roundtable on the "State of the Turkish IR Discipline"

The participants are (from left to right) Fuat Keyman (Koc University), Mustafa Aydin (Kadir Has University), Halit Mustafa Tagma (Arizona State University), Faruk Yalvac (Middle East Technical University), Pinar Bilgin (Bilkent University) . The video is divided in to four parts with each being approximately 25 minutes. The first ten minutes of part 1 is dark due to light.

March 2010

Turkish-ISA panels at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in New Orleans were a great success. Thanks for all the organizers, chairs, panelists, and the audience. In the coming months we shall be sending out a call for papers for the next ISA in Montreal, 2011. Here are some pictures from our panels:

Preparing for round-table on "State of the Discipline: Turkish IR Scholarship". From left: Fuat Keyman (Koc University), Mustafa Aydin (Kadir Has University), Halit Mustafa Tagma (Arizona State University), Faruk Yalvac (Middle East Technical University), Pinar Bilgin (Bilkent University)

Afterwards of panel "Leaders and Structures in Turkish Foreign Policy".

From left: Baris Kesgin (University of Kansas), Esra Cuhadar-Gurkaynak (Bilkent University), Balkan Devlen (Izmir University of Economics), Juliet Kaarbo (University of Kansas), Akan Malici (Furman University), Isa Camyar (University Louisiana, Lafayette), Ozgur Ozdamar (Bilkent Univeristy)

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