ISMAIL ERKAM SULA, PHD

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1 ISMAIL ERKAM SULA, PHD Yildirim Beyazit University Department of International Relations Cankaya/Ankara +90 (312) Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University Department of International Relations Cankaya/Ankara EDUCATION 2017 (May) Ph.D., International Relations (with distinction), Ihsan Dogramacı Bilkent University- Ankara, Turkey Comprehensive fields: International Relations Theory, International Relations General (Discipline and World Politics), Diplomatic History 2011 M.A., International Relations (with distinction), Ihsan Dogramacı Bilkent University- Ankara, Turkey 2009 B.A., International Relations, Dokuz Eylül University Izmir, Turkey RESEARCH INTERESTS Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences, Event Data Analysis, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Relations Theory, Active Learning in International Relations. PhD Dissertation Sula, İsmail Erkam Regional Directions of National Role Conceptions: Turkey s Foreign Policy in Its Neighborhood. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bilkent University: Institute of Economics and Social Sciences. Committee Members: Assist. Prof. Özgür Özdamar (supervisor), Prof Dr. Ersel Aydınlı, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Esra Çuhadar, Prof Dr. Meliha Altunışık Benli, Prof Dr. Haldun Yalçınkaya Master s Thesis Sula, İsmail Erkam Where is the Anchor Now? A Poliheuristic Analysis of Turkish Foreign Policy in the AKP Period. MA Thesis. Bilkent University: Institute of Economics and Social Sciences. 1

2 Committee Members: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serdar Ş. Güner (supervisor), Assist. Prof. Dr. Nil Şatana, Assist. Prof. Dr. Burak Bilgehan Özpek WORK EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of International Relations Advisor, Let s Science: Development and Implementation of Social Science Research Program, Erasmus+ KA2 Project Spring Part-Time Instructor, Bilkent University Department of International Relations Fall Part-Time Instructor, Bilkent University Department of International Relations Fall Part-time instructor, TED University Department of Political Science and International Relations Research Assistant, Yıldırım Beyazıt University Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science Teaching Assistant, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, INRE301 - Turkish Foreign Policy I (2014 Fall), INRE 500 Diplomacy and International System (2015 Spring) Researcher, TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Project, no: 112K163 entitled as Turkey s Foreign Policy Roles: An Empirical Approach directed by Assist. Prof. Özgür Özdamar Research and Teaching Assistant, Bilkent University, Department of International Relations Teaching Assistant, Bilkent University, IR 541- Academic Writing 1 (Fall 2009), IR 542 Academic Writing 2 (Spring 2009), IR World Energy Politics (2010 Fall), IR 333 Foreign Policy Analysis (2011 Spring), IR Game Theory and International Politics (Spring 2011), IR 5111 EU Diplomacy (2012 Spring) TEACHING EXPERIENCE - SAR512 Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Institute of Social Sciences, Eastern Studies Masters Program. Spring INRE402 Theories of Diplomacy Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of International Relations. Spring INRE318 International Migration Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of International Relations. Spring IR439 Turkish Foreign Policy 2

3 Bilkent University, Department of International Relations. Spring INRE205 Foreign Policy Analysis Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of International Relations. Fall INRE303 International Organizations Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of International Relations. Fall IR439 Turkish Foreign Policy Bilkent University, Department of International Relations. Fall PSIR367 Public International Law TED University, Department of Political Science and International Relations. Fall PUBLICATIONS Articles Sula, Ismail Erkam Democracy and Security Cooperation against Terror: An Analysis of the US War on Terror in the Middle East. Akademik Ortadoğu Dergisi, 12(1), Sula, İsmail Erkam Survival Beyond Positivism? The Debate on Rationalism and Reflectivism in International Relations Theory. Marmara Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari BIilimler Dergisi, 38, 1, (with Çağla Lüleci) Sula, İsmail Erkam IR Theory as an Areligious Research Field: The Sources of and Critical Prospects to Overcome the Intellectual Failure Politikon: IAPSS Journal of Political Science, 32, 1, (with Çağla Lüleci) Sula, İsmail Erkam From Good Neighbor to Model: Turkey s Changing Roles in the Middle East in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring. Uluslararası İlişkiler. 11 (42): (SSCI) (with İbrahim Özgür Özdamar, and Toygar Halistoprak) Sula, Ismail Erkam Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice: The Evolution of NATO s Security Agenda. Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, 12 (2): (with Çağla Lüleci) Book Reviews Sula, Ismail Erkam Review of When Things Go Wrong: Foreign Policy Decision Making Under Adverse Feedback, by Charles F. Hermann (ed.), Perceptions, 17 (3): Conference Proceedings Sula, İsmaı l Erkam (2016). Power, Economic Interests, and Ideational Attraction: A Theoretically Heterogeneous Approach in Understanding Turkey s Foreign policy in the early AKP Era. 5th International Blue Black Sea International Congress Proceedings, A. Yalçınkaya, A. Al, H. Mehmetçik (eds.), pp Forthcoming 3

4 Sula, Ismail Erkam (2018) Book Review: The Polithink Syndrome: US Foreign Policy Decisions on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and ISIS, by Alex Mintz and Carley Wayne. International Studies Review (SSCI) Sula, Ismail Erkam (2018) An Eclectic Methodological Approach in Analyzing Foreign Policy: Turkey s Foreign Policy Roles and Events Dataset (TFPRED). All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace. (ESCI) Sula, Ismail Erkam (2018) Dış Politikada Yaşanan Gelişmeler. In, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Tarihi. Başbakanlık Atatürk Araştırmaları Merkezi Yayınları (ATAM). Sula, Ismail Erkam (2018) Körfez Savaşı. In, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Tarihi. Başbakanlık Atatürk Araştırmaları Merkezi Yayınları (ATAM). Sula, Ismail Erkam (2018) Türkiye Dış Politikasında Değişimler: Güney Kafkasya Politikası ve Ermenistan ile İlişkiler. In, Bininci Yılında Türk-Ermeni İlişkileri. Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları. Ongoing Research An Eclectic Methodological Approach: Turkish Foreign Policy Roles and Events Dataset (TFPRED) (Research article) Quantitiative Research in Social Science: Event Data Generation for Foreign Policy Analysis (Research article) INVITED TALK & LECTURES Sula, İsmail Erkam, Güvenlik Simulasyonu, Ege University, Department of International Relations, 08 May 2018 Sula, İsmail Erkam, Güvenlik ve Dış Politika Simulasyonu, Nevşehir University, Department of International Relations, April 2018 Sula, İsmail Erkam, Güvenlik Simulasyonu. TOBB University, Department of Political Science and International Relations, February 2018 Sula, İsmail Erkam Güvenlik Oyunu. UİK Güvenlik Akademisi-XII: 21. Yüzyılda Uluslararası Güvenlik. Ilgaz, Türkiye, Aralık. (with Toygar Halistoprak) Sula, I. Erkam Words and Deeds in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study. Invited Lecture at Kadir Has University Center for Turkish Studies. 29 Kasım. Sula, I. Erkam Rol Kuramı ve Olay Verisi Analizi: Türkiye nin Komşu Bölgelere Yönelik Dış Politikası. Marmara University Department of International Relations Seminar Series. 29 Kasım. Sula, İsmail Erkam Turkey s Foreign Policy Roles and Events Dataset (TFPRED): Quantifying the Parallelism between Role Conceptions and Role Performance, Peace Talk: Young Scholar 4

5 Series, Ihsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Ankara, 13 April Sula, İsmail Erkam Turkey s Foreign Policy Roles and Events Dataset (TFPRED). University of St Gallen Center for Governance and Culture, St Gallen, Switzerland, 5-10 June Sula, İsmail Erkam Dış Politika Simülasyonu. UİK Dış Politika Akademisi-III, Büyük Abant Oteli, Abant-Bolu, May (with Toygar Halistoprak) Sula, İsmail Erkam Dış Politika Simülasyonu. UİK Dış Politika Akademisi-II, Büyük Abant Oteli, Abant-Bolu, February (with Toygar Halistoprak) Sula, İsmail Erkam Güvenlik Oyunu. UİK Güvenlik Akademisi-XI: 21. Yüzyılda Uluslararası Güvenlik, The Green Park Kartepe Resort, Kartepe-Kocaeli, December (with Toygar Halistoprak) Invited Lecturer, Lecture 10: Turkey's Role in Middle Eastern Foreign Policy, Indiana University- SPEA Turkey Overseas Study Program, Bilkent University, Summer Sula, İsmail Erkam Güvenlik Oyunu. UİK Güvenlik Akademisi-X: 21. Yüzyılda Uluslararası Güvenlik, The Green Park Kartepe Resort, Kartepe-Kocaeli, December (with Toygar Halistoprak) Sula, İsmail Erkam Güvenlik Oyunu. UİK Güvenlik Akademisi-VIII: 21. Yüzyılda Uluslararası Güvenlik, The Green Park Kartepe Resort, Kartepe-Kocaeli, December (with İbrahim Özgür Özdamar, and Toygar Halistoprak). SELECTED CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP Sula, I. Erkam A New Methodological Approach to Analyze Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey. ULISA Uluslararası Çalışmalar Kongresi, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, May 10. Sula, I. Erkam A Comparative Analysis of Turkey s Foreign Policy Words and Deeds in the AKP Era: Cooperation, Peace, Foreign Policy Activism, Conflict. Ist Political Science and International Relations Congress, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, October Sula, I. Erkam Türkiye nin Komşu Bölgelere Yönelik Dış Politikasında Söylem ve Eylemler: Karşılaştırmalı Bir İnceleme. 9. Uludağ Conference on International Relations, Uludağ University, Bursa, October. Sula İsmail Erkam (2017) A generic methodological approach to anaylze the paralellism in foreign policy words and deeds: The case of Turkey EISA 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: "The Politics of International Studies in an Age of Crises" Barcelona/SPAIN, September Sula, İsmail Erkam (with Çağla Lüleci-Sula). Assessing the impact of Arab Uprisings on European Security: The future of NATO s Strategic Concepts EISA 11th Pan-European Conference on 5

6 International Relations: "The Politics of International Studies in an Age of Crises" Barcelona/SPAIN, September Sula, İsmail Erkam Methodological Plurality and Progress in the Discipline. All Azimuth Methods Workshop, Ihsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Ankara, September, Sula, İsmail Erkam Searching for an Eponym of Turkey s foreign policy orientations: Proactivity, Rhythm and/or Precious Loneliness. Paper presented at the 58 th ISA Annual Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, 22 nd -25 th February, 2017 Sula, İsmaı l Erkam (2016). Power Economic Interests and Ideational Attraction A Theoretically Heterogeneous Approach in Understanding Turkey s Foreign policy in the early AKP Era. 5th Blue Black Sea International Congress, Istanbul, pp Sula, İsmail Erkam (with Çağla Lüleci) NATO ve Arap Ayaklanmaları: NATO nun Genişleyen Güvenlik Ajandası ve Örgütün GeleceğI. Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği. UİK Güvenlik Akademisi-X: 21. Yüzyılda Uluslararası Güvenlik, The Green Park Kartepe Resort,, Aralık Sula, İsmail Erkam In Search for a 'Sui Generis' Theoretical Framework: A Role Theoretical Analysis of Turkey's Foreign Policy in its Surrounding Regions. Paper presented at the 56 th ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, 18 th -21 st February, Sula, İsmail Erkam (with Çağla Lüleci) A Tale of Two Villages: Rationalia and Reflectia. Paper presented at the 56 th ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, 18 th -21 st February, Sula, İsmail Erkam (with Çağla Lüleci) NATO s Performance during the Arab Uprisings : Is the Organization s Future in Crisis?. British International Studies Association (BISA) International Annual Conference. Dublin, Ireland, 18th - 20th June Sula, İsmail Erkam (with Buğra Sarı) Turkey: A Smart Power? An Analysis on The Ongoing Syrian Crisis. Paper presented at the 55 th ISA Annual Convention, Toronto, March 26 th - 29 th Sula, İsmail Erkam (with Buğra Sarı) Turkey as a Smart Power : Arab Spring and the Recent Syrian Crisis. Paper presented at the 12 th METU Conference on International Relations, METU- Ankara- Turkey, Sula, İsmail Erkam (with Neslihan D. Alsancak, Toygar Halistoprak and Buğra Sarı) Uluslararası İlişkiler Öğretimine Yeni Yaklaşımlar: Simulasyon ve Oyun Yardımıyla Uluslararası İlişkiler Öğrenmek. Paper presented at the 5. Uluslararasi İlişkiler Çalişmalari ve Eğitimi Kongresi. Cyprus, April 19-22, Sula, Ismail Erkam A Formal Model on Turkey's Shifting Foreign Policy Orientation(s): Utilizing the Poliheuristic Decision-Making theory to Integrate Multi-level and Multidimensional variables. Paper presented at the 54 th ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, April 03,

7 Sula, Ismail Erkam A Poliheuristic Analysis of Turkish Foreign Policy in the AKP Period. Paper presented at the 11 th METU Conference on International Relations, METU- Ankara- Turkey, June 13-15, AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Achieved International Studies Association (ISA) Travel Grant 2015 (Amount: 550$) - TUBITAK 2224-A Scientific Meetings Grant - $ Research Grant for TUBITAK Project, no: 112K163 entitled as Turkey s Foreign policy Roles: An Empirical Approach directed by Assist. Prof. Özgür Özdamar (Amount: 24 months X 1500TL). - Achieved International Studies Association (ISA) Travel Grant 2013 (Amount: $450) - Granted the Achievement Scholarship from Bilkent University Department of International Relations ( ) - Graduated with Distinction From Bilkent University Master s Program in International Relations (2011) - Granted the Achievement Scholarship from Bilkent University Department of International Relations ( ) - Graduated as the third of the class in Dokuz Eylul University ( ) SELECTED ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES - Deputy Editor, ULISA ANALIZ: Journal of Theoretical and Conceptual Debates Published by Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (IRSS), 2014 (ongoing). - Managing Editor, ULISA BULTEN: Journal of Turkish Foreign Policy, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, IRSS, 2013 (ongoing). - Coordinator, Bilkent University Department of International Relations Graduate Student Simulation Team (a team of Bilkent IR graduate students that organize and conduct simulations and active learning role playing games for undergraduate students), IR Crisis Game: Georgia- 2011, Yönet Bakalım-2012/13, EU Simulation-2013/14, Ukrainian Crisis Co-organizer (with Çağla Lüleci, Uluç Karakaş, Rana Coşkun), 2 nd Bilkent IR Post-Graduate Conference: Rethinking Change in International Relations, Ankara, Turkey, June 1-2, Program co-chair (with Gözde Turan and Minenur Küçük) Bilkent IR Post-Graduate Conference: International Relations in the Age of Uncertainty: Theory and Practice, Ankara, Turkey, May 30, Co-founder (with Neslihan D. Alsancak, Ayşe Yedekçi, Zehra N. Altaylı), Society of Young Academics (a graduate students community based in Bilkent University that aims at establishing a network of young academics studying international relations in different universities), CLUB & ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS - International Studies Association (ISA): Foreign Policy Analysis, Active Learning in IR Section - American Political Science Association (APSA) 7

8 - British International Studies Association (BISA) - International Relations Council (UIK Turkey) WEBSITE & SOCIAL MEDIA Google Scholar : Academia.edu : Twitter REFERENCES 1) Prof. Özgür Özdamar (PhD Dissertation supervisor, Bilkent University Department of International Relations) Contact: ozgur@bilkent.edu.tr, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, 06800, TURKEY 2) Prof. Ersel Aydınlı (PhD Dissertation Supervision Committee Member, Turkish Fulbright Commission, Executive Director; Bilkent University Department of International Relations, faculty member; Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research (CFPPR), General Coordinator) Contact: ersel@bilkent.edu.tr, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University Ankara, 06800, TURKEY 3) Prof. Serdar Güner (MA Thesis Supervisor, Bilkent University Department of International Relations, Faculty member) Contact: sguner@bilkent.edu.tr Bilkent University, Department of International Relations, Ankara, TURKEY 8