Created Date: 9/1/2016 11:14:24 AM.

We are hosting a new workshop series, which aim to promote inter and intra-university research-focused interaction among faculty members and graduate students. Our goal is to provide an interdisciplinary and collaborative platform for all faculty members and graduate students, regardless of their field or methodological background, to get feedback on their works as well as to engage with others’. The workshops are held once in every week, Wednesday noon or Friday afternoon, and we will have 12. As part of her research, Selver has proposed to study the contemporary joined-up security and development strategies aimed at transforming conflict-affected countries into peaceful communities. Through setting up an international research platform and undertaking a series of field studies and seminars in the Balkan region, this research project will demonstrate how the relationship between security and development features in policy interventions and how the transformation processes in the regi. Sahin has recently delivered a seminar on the likely implications of East Timor’s possible accession to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

The seminar was delivered at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) on 5 December 2013, and it was attended by the academic and policy community in Singapore as well as members of the diplomatic representations in the country including Turkey. The Turkish Embassy has also kindly shared the event on its Facebook page. The students of the Department of International Relations had the chance to meet with four former members of the United States Congress, Rep. Ben Chandler (Democrat, Kentucky), Lincoln Davis (Democrat, Tennessee), Martin Lancaster (Democrat, North Carolina) and Jim Kolbe (Republican, Arizona) in a panel discussion with the chairmanship of Prof. Michael Cain (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) at Bilkent University on Wednesday, April 10 as part of the 'Congress to Campus' program. Within the fram.

Students from Bilkent University met on Friday (12 February 2013) with their American counterparts using video conferencing to discuss the challenges in the global context of network societies. The online session is the first in a semester-long course taught jointly by a professor in each university, focusing on common challenges Turkey and the United States face in the 21st century. The course, IR 4118 - Turkey and the United States: Common Concerns and New ICT Instruments, is the outcome of a.

On May 2, Bilkent's Department of International Relations held a videoconference with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Part of the 'Digital Lectures Series' that the two universities have been running since last year, the videoconference was supervised by Asst. Dimitris Tsarouhas, who is also the project coordinator on behalf of the IR department. The project brings together students and staff in order to promote information exchange and cooperation between Bilkents and Maastrich.

Assistant Professor Sean McMeekin of the Department of International Relations has won the prestigious Tomlinson Prize for his book entitled 'The Russian Origins of the First World War' (Harvard University Press, 2011). The Tomlinson Prize is awarded annually by the World War One Historical Association to the book the Association judges to be the year 's best in English on the First World War. As its title suggests, Dr. McMeekin's book uncovers the 'Russian origins' of World War I, highlighting. On January 5, 2012, HRH Prince Abdul-Aziz bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, President of the Arab Gulf Program for United Nations Development (AGFUND) visited Bilkent University, Department of International Relations.