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Meltem Müftüler-Baç is Professor of International Relations and 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 worked at Bilkent University and at the University of Chicago previously.
Prof. Müftüler-Baç authored Turkey’s Relations with a Changing Europe (Manchester University Press, 1997), and Turkey and the European Union Relations: Dilemmas, Opportunities and Constraints, co-edited with Yannis Stivachtis (Lexington books, 2008). 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.
LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
New Grants
- FP7 SSH Project: TRANSWORLD: “TRANSWORLD: Redefining the transatlantic relationship and its role in shaping global governance’, funded by the European Commission, coordinated by the Institute of International Affairs in Rome, Italy. Meltem Muftuler-Bac leads the Sabanci research team. 2012-2015.
- Jean Monnet Center for Excellence, European Studies, 2011-2014.
- Sabanci-CEU joint projects: Meltem Muftuler-Bac leads two different grants on the Euro-Mediterranean and Turkish foreign policy co-funded by the Central European University and Sabanci University for 2011-2013.
Recent journal publications
- Meltem Muftuler-Bac and Fuat Keyman (2012) The Era of Dominant Party Politics, Journal of Democracy, January 2012, vol.23, no.1, pp. 85-99, (SSCI).
- Meltem Muftuler-Bac and Arzu Kibris (2011) The accession games: a comparison of three limited-information negotiation designs, International Studies Perspectives, vol.12, December 2011, pp.405-433, (SSCI)
- Meltem Muftuler-Bac and Nora Fisher Onar (2011) The adultery and the headscarf debates in Turkey: Fusing “EU-niversal” and “alternative” modernities?, Women’s Studies International Forum, vol. 34, no.5, October 2011, pp. 378-389. (SSCI)
- Meltem Muftuler-Bac (2011) “Turkish Foreign Policy Change, its Domestic Determinants and the Role of the European Union”, South East European Politics and Society, vol, 16, no.2, June 2011, pp.279-291, (SSCI).
- Meltem Muftuler-Bac and Deniz Baskan (2011) “The Future of Energy Security for Europe: Turkey’s role as an Energy Corridor”, Middle Eastern Studies, vol.47, no.2, March 2011, pp.361-378, (SSCI)
My Contact Details
Prof.Dr.Meltem Müftüler-Baç
Jean Monnet Chair ad personam
Sabancı University
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Orhanlı Tuzla
İstanbul, Turkey
tel: 216 4839247
fax: 2164839250
email: muftuler@sabanciuniv.edu
url: http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/muftuler