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ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Büşra Barın E-mail: ozbusra@metu.edu.tr Şerif Onur Bahçecik E-mail: bahcecik@metu.edu.tr Tuba Ünlü Bilgiç E-mail: utuba@metu.edu.tr Zana Çıtak E-mail: zana@metu.edu.tr Esra Doğruer E-mail: edogruer@metu.edu.tr Burak Erdinç E-mail: berdinc@metu.edu.tr Cem Kaygun E-mail: ckaygun@metu.edu.tr Başar Şirin E-mail: bsirin@metu.edu.tr Özlem Tür E-mail: tur@metu.edu.tr - 2 -
ASSISTANT STAFF Tolgahan Akdan Burcu Babayiğit Büşra Barın Tekin Baykız Muttalip Çağlayan Murat Demirel Aslıhan Anlar Doğanlar Esra Doğruer Yelda Erçandarlı Burak Erdinç Özlem Kaplan Hakan Karaaslan Cem Kaygun Coşkun Musluk Mehmet Onur Öncan Çağdaş Özeniş Abdullah Öztürk Mehmet Can Palancı Başar Şirin Beishen Toktogulov Metin Yücekaya - 3 -
DATES Wednesday, June 12 Friday, June 14, 2013 Venue: METU Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (FEAS) Building B REGISTRATION Registration and Information Desk is located on the first floor of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (FEAS) Building B. The desk is open at the following times: Wednesday, June 12 9:00-17:30 Thursday, June 13 9:00-17:30 Friday, June 14 9:00-17:30 BADGE Participants should kindly wear name badges during the Conference. Name badges will be provided in participants conference packs at the Registration Desk. SESSIONS Sessions are moderated by Chairs who monitor and administer the meetings. Each paper will be presented for about 20 minutes, and will be followed by a brief discussion. The Chair may decide and change the order of presentations as well as time allocated for each presentation. CONFERENCE COCKTAIL The Chair of the Department of International Relations invites all participants to the cocktail at the front garden of the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences B-Building (FEAS-B). The cocktail will take place on Wednesday, June 12 between 18:00-20:00. CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT Middle East Technical University / Department of International Relations 06531 Ankara Turkey Phone: (90 312) 210 30 94 / 210 20 16 / Fax: (90 312) 210 79 83 E-mail: irconf@metu.edu.tr / Website: http://www.ir.metu.edu.tr/conf/ - 4 -
12 June OPENING CEREMONY 9:30 10:00 Place: FEAS B, G110 Ahmet Acar (Rector, METU) Hüseyin Bağcı (Chair, Department of International Relations, ) Süleyman Aslan (Chief sponsor of the Conference, Türkiye Halk Bankası, Board Member and General Manager) Opening Speech William Hale (Emeritus, SOAS, UK) 10:00 11:00 Looking to the Future: Prospects for Turkish Foreign Policy to 2023 SESSIONS 1, 11:15 12:30 Session 1-A Turkey and the Middle East Place: G102 Chair: Ömür Atmaca (Hacettepe University) Aslım İlksoy (Near East University, TRNC): Turkey and the Middle East: Failing to be a Model Cenk Aygül (Atılım University, Turkey): Turkey as a Model after Arab Spring: Remembering the Rentier State - 5 -
Zeynep Gülşah Çapan (İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) and Özge Onursal Beşgül (İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey): Turkey as a Model? Renegotiating Turkish Foreign Policy Identity Session 1-B Turkey s Bilateral Relations Place: G104 Chair: Hüseyin Bağcı (METU) Luis Tomé (Autonomous University of Lisbon, Portugal): Why We Should Not Say Never to the Integration of Turkey into the EU? Vügar İmanbeyli (İstanbul Şehir University, Turkey): The Turkish-Russian Rapprochement: How Sustainable is it? Galym Zhussipbek (Süleyman Demirel University, Kazakhstan): The Impact of National and Religious Identity Building Processes on the Relations between Turkey and post-soviet Central Asian States Session 1-C Place: Blue Seminar Room Roundtable Organized by the Foreign Policy Institute, Turkey International and Domestic Developments and Their Impact on Turkish Foreign Policy Seyfi Taşhan (President of the Foreign Policy Institute) Reşat Arım (Ambassador, Ret.) Oktay Aksoy (Ambassador, Ret.) Ali Engin Oba (Çağ University, Turkey) 12:30 13:30 LUNCH - 6 -
SESSIONS 2, 13:30 14:45 Session 2-A, Place: G102 Asianization of the Middle East I: The Context (Panel Organized by CASAW and the al-sabah Programme) Chair: Özlem Tür () Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University, UK): Asianisation: Strategic Perspectives Tim Niblock (University of Exeter, UK): The Gulf in Chinese Global Strategies: Significance and Parameters of the Gulf-China Relationship James Piscatori (Durham University, UK): Asian Ties: Common Links or Worlds Apart? Session 2-B, Turkish Foreign Policy under the AKP Place: G104 Chair: İlhan Uzgel (Ankara University, Turkey) Muzaffer Şenel (İstanbul Şehir University, Turkey): Six Sins of Turkey s Foreign Policy Yakup Şahin (Ankara University, Turkey) and Sibel Kalemdaroğlu (Ankara University, Turkey): From Strategic Depth to the Strategic Bottom: Misperceptions in AKP Foreign Policy Laura Bastos (University of Coimbra, Portugal): The Representation of the Other in Turkish Foreign Policy during the AKP Government - 7 -
Session 2-C, Foreign Policy Anaysis 1 Place: G106 Chair: Müge Kınacıoğlu (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Kohei Imai (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan): Comparative Studies of Turkish Omnidirectional Diplomacies Nurettin Alphan Tuncer (Humboldt University, Germany): Problem of Problem-Solving: An Alternative Approach to Turkish Foreign Policy during the Cold War Alper Kaliber (İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey): The Post-Cold War Regionalisms of Turkish Foreign Policy Clemens Hoffman (Bilkent University, Turkey) and Ali Bilgiç (Bilkent University, Turkey): We are Also African : A Critical Assessment of Turkey s New Africa Policy Keynote Speech, 15:00 16:00 Place: G110 Chair: Meliha Altunışık () Ofra Bengio (Tel Aviv University, Israel): Ankara, Irbil, Baghdad: A Triangle Fraught with Dilemmas Bill Park (King s College, UK): Turkey s Multiple Kurdish Dilemmas - Syria, Iraq and at Home; How They are Related, and Where They Might Lead - 8 -
SESSIONS 3, 16:15 17.45 Session 3-A, Asianization of the Middle East 2: GCC and Asia (Panel Organized by CASAW and the al-sabah Programme) Place: G102 Chair: Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University, UK) Beni Bona (Durham University, UK): Theorizing Asianization: Towards a Neo- Gramscian Framework for Analyzing State-Society Relations in an Asianizing GCC Abdullah Baabood (Qatar University, Qatar): Broader GCC-Asian relations Nadir Gohari (Durham University, UK): GCC-Central Asian Relations Session 3-B, Turkey and the Issues of Environment and Migration Place: G104 Chair: Işıl Anıl () Zerrin Savaşan (): Recent Developments on Major Environmental Concerns in Turkey Zeynep Clulow (University of Nottingham, UK): The Social Construction of Turkey s Identity in the Global Climate Regime Alexander Bürgin (İzmir University of Economics, Turkey): Explaining Changes in Turkey s Irregular Migration Management: the EU Still Matters Emrah Şahin (University of Florida, USA) and Gregory Mason (University of Florida, USA): Turks across the Atlantic: A Comparison of Political Authority and Religious Identity among Turkish Communities in Cologne and Montreal - 9 -
Session 3-C, Turkey and International Organizations Place: G106 Chair: Işık Kuşçu Bonnenfant () Halit Harput () and Özgür Çalışkan (Ankara University, Turkey): Turkey-WTO Relations Metin Çelik (Gazi University, Turkey): Turkey s Voting Behavior in International Organizations Ramazan Erdağ (Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Turkey): Turkey s Activism in International Organizations - 10 -
June 13 SESSIONS 4, 09:30 10:45 SeSsion 4-A, Asianization of the Middle East 3 : Public and Foreign Policy Dimensions (Panel Organized by CASAW and the al-sabah Programme) Place: G102 Chair: Ceren Ergenç () N. Janardhan (Independent Consultant, UAE): Gulf s Future Security Architecture and India Mohammed al-sudairi (Silk Road Associates): The Struggle for Perceptions: Arab and Israeli Public Relations Efforts in China Yuki Miyagi (University of St. Andrews, Scotland): Japan s Soft Power in the Middle East - 11 -
Session 4-B, Turkey and the Middle East 2 Place: G104 Chair: Serdar Palabıyık (TOBB ETU, Turkey) İsa Afacan (Zirve Univesity, Turkey): The Rise of Kurds in the midst of Syrian Civil War: Toward Statehood or Fragmented Polities? Amir Lupovici (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and Gallia Lindenstrausse (Tel Aviv University, Israel): When the Emotional Climate Turns Sour: The Crisis in Turkish-Israeli Relations Şevket Ovalı (Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey) and Çağla Lüleci (Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey): From Esad to Esed: Examining Turkey s Discursive Shift towards Syrian Regime from the Perspective of Securitization Theory Keynote Speech, 11:00 12:00 Place: G110 Chair: Dimitris Tsarouhas (Bilkent University, Turkey) Meltem Müftüler-Baç (Sabancı University, Turkey): Turkish Foreign Policy Choices: The Decline of the European Anchor Nathalie Tocci (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy): Does Turkey Have a Place in Post-Crisis Europe 12:15 13:30 LUNCH - 12 -
SESSIONS 5, 13:30 15:15 Session 5-A, Turkey - Syria Relations: Between Enmity and Amity Place: G102 Chair: Özlem Tür () Raymond Hinnebusch (University of St. Andrews, Scotland): Turkey-Syria Relations after the Syrian Uprising: Theoretical Perspectives on the Move from Amity to Enmity Meliha Altunışık (): A Regionalist Approach to Explaining Turkish-Syrian Relations Özden Zeynep Oktav (Yıldız Technical University, Turkey): The Syrian Uprising and the Iran-Turkey-Syria Quasi Alliance: A View from Turkey Ahmet K. Han (Kadir Has University, Turkey): Paradise Lost: A Neoclassical Neoreliast Analysis of Turkish Foreign Policy and the Case of Turkish Syrian Relations Özlem Tür (): The Political Economy of Turkish Syrian Relations: The Rise and Fall of Trade, Investment and Integration Session 5-B, Turkey s Bilateral Relations Place: G104 Chair: Başak Alpan () George Koukoudakis (The Hellenic Centre for European Studies, Greece): Greek-Turkish Rapprochement Procedure 1999-2013: an Evaluation Didem Buhari (Oxford Brookes University, UK): Ritualized Europeanization: an Alternative Approach to Turkey s European Union Accession Process - 13 -
Günter Seufert (SWP, Germany ): Alternatives to present European policies towards Turkey Neyyire Nilgün Öner Tangör (): Struggling for Statehood in the Context of a Protracted Conflict: The Prospects for Change and Continuum for the Turkish Cypriot Community after 2004 Jozsef Lajos Nemeth (National University of Public Service, Hungary): Strategic Communication Efforts of Turkey Keynote Panel, 15:30 16:30 Place: G 110 Chair: Atila Eralp () Mustafa Aydın (Kadir Has University, Turkey): Conceptualization of Turkish Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change Fuat Keyman (Sabancı University, Turkey): Transforming Turkey-EU Relations: What Kind of Full Membership? - 14 -
SESSIONS 6, 16:45 18:00 Session 6-A, Turkey and Issues of Foreign Aid Place: G 102 Chair: Şerif Onur Bahçecik () Ömer F. Örsün (Koç University, Turkey): Aiding Peace Abroad? Foreign Aid and Interstate Conflict Ulvi Keser (Atılım University, Turkey): Warchitecture and Turkish Humanitarian Assistance towards the Former Yugoslavia and the Balkans Silvia Cardascia (Italy): The Legal Treatment of Foreign Direct Investments in Turkey: Domestic and European Scenario Eyüp Ersoy (Bilkent University, Turkey): Turkish Foreign Policy and Global Health Diplomacy Session 6-B, Turkey and the Middle East 3 Place: G 104 Chair: Burak Bilgehan Özpek (TOBB ETU, Turkey) Alper Dede (Zirve University, Turkey): Limitations of Turkey s Soft Power in the Middle East after the Arab Spring Oğuz Dilek (Zirve University, Turkey) and Emre İşeri (Kadir Has University, Turkey): Enduring Iran and Israel Rivalry in the Penetrated Middle East: A Structurational Analysis - 15 -
June 14 SESSIONS 7, 09:15 11:00 Session 7-A, Issues of Change and Challenges in Turkey s Foreign Policy Place: G102 Chair: Tuba Ünlü Bilgiç () Lerna Yanık (Kadir Has University, Turkey): Change and Continuity in Turkey s Important Geopolitics Özgür Özdamar (Bilkent University, Turkey): Turkey s Changing Roles in Foreign Policy: From Southern Bulwark to Pivotal Country Tarık Oğuzlu (Antalya International University, Turkey): Is the Rising Turkey a Challenge to the West? Session 7-B, Issues in Turkish Foreign Policy Place: G-104 Chair: Mustafa Türkeş () Sezgin Mercan (Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey) and Özdemir Akbal (Turgut Özal University Turkey): Turkey s Security Perceptions: A Case Study of Missile Defense System and the Effects of Turkey s Foreign Policy - 16 -
Oktay Tanrısever (): Is Turkey s Energy Policy Compatible with its International Commitments under its Environmental Policy? David Skidmore (Drake University, USA): The Obama Presidency and US Foreign Policy: Where is the Multilateralism? Keynote Panel, 11:15 12:30 Place: G 110 Chair: Eyüp Özveren () Kemal Kirişçi (Brookings Institute, Turkey): TTIP-ing Turkey: Geo-strategic Implications Ziya Öniş (Koç University, Turkey): Rising Powers in a Changing Global Order: Perspectives on the Political Economy of Turkey in the Age of BRICs 12:30 13:30 LUNCH SESSION 8, 13:30 14:45 Session 8, Keynote Panel: Turkey s New Roles Place: G 110 Chair: Hüseyin Bağcı () Faruk Yalvaç (): Is Turkey a Regional Hegemon? Pınar Bilgin (Bilkent University, Turkey): Civilization, Dialogue, Security: The Limits of Civilizational Dialogue/Alliance - 17 -
SESSIONS 9, 15:00 16:30 Session 9-A, Turkey and the Middle East 4 Place: G 102 Chair: Bayram Sinkaya (Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey) Buğra Sarı (Gazi University, Turkey) and İsmail Erkam Sula (Bilkent University, Turkey): Turkey as a Smart Power : Arab Spring and the Recent Syrian Crisis Moritz Pieper (University of Kent, UK): Turkish Foreign Policy toward the Iranian Nuclear Programme - Examining Strategic Convergence with the Rising Powers China and Russia Mehtap Kara (Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC) and Hamidreza Monibi (Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC): Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Syrian Conflict and its Possible Implications for Turkish-Iranian Relations Suat Tayfun Topak (Turgut Özal University, Turkey): Turkey as a Moderator in International Conflicts: the Case of Iran Nuclear Crisis Session 9B, Foreign Policy Analysis 2 Place: G 104 Chair: Bestami Sadi Bilgiç (İpek University, Turkey) Okhan Erciyas (Bilkent University, Turkey): Turkey s Decision not to Intervene in Cyprus during 1964 Crisis: A Poliheuristic Perspective Büşra Süpürgeci (Bilkent University, Turkey): Turkish Foreign Policy Decision to Deploy Turkish Troops to Korean War and Modeling Foreign Policy with Systemism Approach - 18 -
Nigarhan Gürpınar (Bilkent University, Turkey): The Operational Code of Joseph Stalin and Soviet Relations with Turkey Eralp Semerci (Bilkent University, Turkey): President Özal, Prospect Theory and Turkey s Reaction to Gulf Crisis (1990-1991) Session 9C, Turkey and the Middle East 5 Place: G 106 Chair: Zana Çitak () Betül Özyılmaz (Gazi University, Turkey): Turkey as a Model or as an Example? Zenonas Tziarras (University of Warwick, UK): Turkish Model: the Case of post-arab Spring Egypt J. Paul Barker (Independent Researcher): Reconsidering the Secular Republic of Turkey: The Place of Religion in a Democratic, Secular and Muslim Majority State Minenur Küçük (Bilkent University, Turkey): Nilüfer Göle and Islamic Modernities: the Case of Turkey 16:45 Closing Place: G-102-19 -
PARTICIPANT LIST Abdullah Baabood Ahmet Acar Ahmet K. Han Alexander Bürgin Ali Bilgiç Alper Dede Alper Kaliber Amir Lupovici Anoush Ehteshami Aslım İlksoy Atilla Eralp Başak Alpan Bayram Sinkaya Beni Bona Bestami Sadi Bilgiç Betül Özyılmaz Bill Park Buğra Sarı Burak Bilgehan Özpek Büşra Süpürgeci Cenk Aygül Ceren Ergenç Clemens Hoffman Çağla Lüleci David Skidmore Didem Buhari Dimitris Tsarouhas Emrah Şahin Emre İşeri Qatar University, Qatar Rector, Kadir Has University, Turkey İzmir University of Economics, Turkey Bilkent University, Turkey Zirve University, Turkey İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey Tel Aviv University, Israel Durham University, UK Near East University, TRNC Yıldırım Beyazid University, Turkey Durham University, UK İpek University, Turkey Gazi University, Turkey King s College, UK Gazi University, Turkey TOBB ETU, Turkey Bilkent University, Turkey Atılım University, Turkey Bilkent University, Turkey Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey Drake University, USA Oxford Brookes University, UK Bilkent University, Turkey University of Florida, USA Kadir Has University, Turkey - 20 -
Eralp Semerci Bilkent Univeristy, Turkey Eyüp Ersoy Bilkent University, Turkey Eyüp Özveren Faruk Yalvaç Fuat Keyman Sabancı University, Turkey Gallia Lindenstrausse Tel Aviv University, Israel Galym Zhussipbek Süleyman Demirel University, Kazakhstan George Koukoudakis The Hellenic Centre for European Studies, Greece Gregory Mason University of Florida, USA Günter Seufert SWP, Germany Halit Harput Hamidreza Monibi Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC Hüseyin Bağcı Chair, Department of International Relations, Işık Kuşçu Bonnenfant Işıl Anıl İlhan Uzgel Ankara University, Turkey İsa Afacan Zirve Univesity, Turkey İsmail Erkam Sula Bilkent University, Turkey J. Paul Barker Independent Researcher James Piscatori Durham University, UK Jozsef Lajos Nemeth National University of Public Service, Hungary Kemal Kirişçi Brookings Institute, Turkey Kohei Imai Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Laura Bastos University of Coimbra, Portugal Lerna Yanık Kadir Has University, Turkey Luis Tomé Autonomous University of Lisbon, Portugal Mark Meirowitz Attorney at Law, USA Mehtap Kara Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC Meliha Altunışık Meltem Müftüler-Baç Sabancı University, Turkey Metin Çelik Gazi University, Turkey Minenur Küçük Bilkent University, Turkey - 21 -
Mohammed al-sudairi Silk Road Associates Moritz Pieper University of Kent, UK Mustafa Aydın Kadir Has University, Turkey Mustafa Türkeş Muzaffer Şenel İstanbul Şehir University, Turkey Müge Kınacıoğlu Hacettepe University, Turkey N. Janardhan Independent Consultant, UAE Nadir Gohari Durham University, UK Nathalie Tocci Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy Neyyire Nilgün Öner Tangör Nigarhan Gürpınar Bilkent University, Turkey Nurettin Alphan Tuncer Humboldt University, Germany Ofra Bengio Tel Aviv University, Israel Oğuz Dilek Zirve University, Turkey Okhan Erciyas Bilkent University, Turkey Oktay Aksoy Ambassador, Ret. Oktay Tanrısever Ömer Engin Lütem Ambassador, Ret. Ömer F. Örsün Koç University, Turkey Ömür Atmaca Hacettepe University, Turkey Özdemir Akbal Turgut Özal University Turkey Özden Zeynep Oktav Yıldız Technical University, Turkey Özge Onursal Beşgül İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey Özgür Çalışkan Ankara University, Turkey Özgür Özdamar Bilkent University, Turkey Özlem Tür Pınar Bilgin Bilkent University, Turkey Ramazan Erdağ Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Turkey Raymond Hinnebusch University of St. Andrews, Scotland Reşat Arım Ambassador, Ret. Serdar Palabıyık TOBB ETU, Turkey Seyfi Taşhan President of the Foreign Policy Institute - 22 -
Sezgin Mercan Sibel Kalemdaroğlu Silvia Cardascia Suat Tayfun Topak Süleyman Aslan Şerif Onur Bahçecik Şevket Ovalı Tarık Oğuzlu Tim Niblock Tuba Ünlü Bilgiç Ulvi Keser Vügar İmanbeyli William Hale Yakup Şahin Yuki Miyagi Zana Çitak Zenonas Tziarras Zerrin Savaşan Zeynep Clulow Zeynep Gülşah Çapan Ziya Öniş Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey Ankara University, Turkey Italy Turgut Özal University, Turkey Chief sponsor of the Conference, Türkiye Halk Bankası, Board Member and General Manager Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey Antalya International University, Turkey University of Exeter, UK Atılım University, Turkey İstanbul Şehir University, Turkey Emeritus, SOAS, UK Ankara University, Turkey University of St. Andrews, Scotland University of Warwick, UK University of Nottingham, UK İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey Koç University, Turkey - 23 -