Belgin San-Akca                 

    Assistant Professor 

    Department of International Relations, Koç University, Istanbul

Dr. Belgin San-Akca is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics at Koç University.  She joined Koç University in September 2009 after receiving her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Davis. During her doctoral study, Dr. Akca worked as an instructor for various courses at the UC Berkeley and UC Davis.

Her main research interests are mainly in the areas of international security and conflict. Specifically, she focuses on international  and regional dimensions and implications of terrorism, insurgency, and civil war. She has a dataset on states that provide support to terrorists, insurgents, and rebel groups. She is the author of “State Support for Non-state Armed Groups (NAGs): A Resort to Illegality?” that appeared in the August 2009 issue of Journal of Strategic Studies. Dr. Akca teaches both graduate and undergraduate level courses, including quantitative analysis, research methods, introduction to political science, and terrorism, insurgency and civil war.

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