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Meltem Müftüler-Baç is Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences since July 2020, and Professor of International Relations/ Jean Monnet chair at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. She is a graduate of Robert College (1984), received her B.A in Political Science from Boğaziçi University (1988), M.A (1989) and Ph.D. (1992) in Political Science/International relations from Temple University, USA. She was promoted to Associate professor rank in 1996, and Full Professor in 2004. She worked at Bilkent University from 1992 to January 2002; as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago in 1999-2000, Affiliate professor at University of Stockholm in 2013-2016, and visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Perry World House, in 2019-2020. She joined Sabanci University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2002.

Prof. Müftüler-Baç authored Turkey’s Relations with a Changing Europe (Manchester University Press, 1997), Turkey and the European Union Relations: Dilemmas, Opportunities and Constraints, co-edited with Yannis Stivachtis (Lexington books, 2008), and Diverging Pathways: Turkey and the European Union, Re-Thinking the Dynamics of Turkish-European Union Relations (Berlin: Budrich publishers, 2016), and co-edited Interparliamentary Cooperation:  Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in EU external relations, together with Kolja Raube and Jan Wouters in 2019. Her publications appeared in numerous international outlets and are widely cited.  She participates in the EU funded large scale collaborative research projects in Framework programs and received numerous grants from the EU both for research and teaching. Prof. Müftüler-Baç holds two prestigious awards from the Turkish Academy of Sciences: Young Social Scientist Investigator Award in 2002 and Distinguished Young Scientist Award in 2003. She was awarded with the Jean Monnet Professor ad personam title from the European Commission in 2004.  You can follow her on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

  • Meltem Muftuler-Bac (2025) A Fragile Relationship: Turkey and the European Union Moving Beyond Membership with External Differentiated Integration: West European Politics, 10.1080/01402382.2024.2442870. 
  • Meltem Muftuler-Bac, Senem Aydin-Duzgit and Ezgi-Uzun-Teker (2024) The EU’s global strategic partner(ship): A tool for the maturation of European foreign policy?, European Security, vol.33, no.3, September 2024, pp.426-448, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2024.2376612
  • Meltem Muftuler-Bac, (2024) External Differentiated Integration: The Modalities of Turkey’s Opting into the European Union, Diane Fromage (ed.) Re-defining Membership: Differentiation in and outside of the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.253-274, https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191948145.003.0012
  • Meltem Muftuler- Bac (2023) Turkey’s Influence as a Third Country on the European Union: From Association to a Key Partner, Journal of Common Market Studies, 61:6, pp.1471-1488. DOI:10.1111/jcms.13430
  • Nihat Mugurtay and Meltem Müftüler-Baç  (2023) Turkish Power Contestation with the United Arab Emirates: A Comparison of Official Development Assistance, International Politics, vol.60, no.4, pp.659-684. DOI: 10.1057/s41311-022-00422-8. 

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Contact Details

Prof.Dr.Meltem Müftüler-Baç

Jean Monnet Chair ad personam

Sabancı University

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Orhanlı Tuzla

Ä°stanbul, Turkey

tel: 216 4839247

fax: 2164839250

email: muftuler@sabanciuniv.edu

url: http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/muftuler

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