ABOUT US
Michael Mousseau (coordinator)
Michael Mousseau is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He earned his Ph.D. from Binghamton University (1998), after several years of ethnographic research in many regions, including East Africa (1991), the Indian sub-continent (1992), and the Soviet Union (1991). He is a former Research Fellow at the Belfer Center International Security Program, Harvard University (2005 - 2006), and the United Nations Studies Program, Yale University (2003). He is currently a visiting scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University (2010 - 2011). He is the creator of economic norms theory, which identifies how economic conditions can affect a nation's political culture and governing institutions, and how these processes can affect war and peace. His articles have appeared in Conflict Management and Peace Science, European Journal of International Relations, International Interactions, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research.
Belgin San Akca is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Koç University. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Davis (2009). During her doctoral study, Dr. Akca worked as a consultant and a research assistant for two projects besides teaching various courses at the University of California, Berkeley and Davis. Her main research interests are at the intersection of international security and conflict and domestic politics. Specifically, she focuses on international and regional dimensions and implications of terrorism, insurgency, and civil war. Her other interests include regional cooperation, external intervention, specifically minor power intervention, the Middle East conflict, and research design issues for the study of triadic relationships. She is the originator of the state-NAG alliance dataset, which includes information 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.
Reşat Bayer is an Assistant Professor of international relations at Koç University. He earned his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University (2004). He is a former visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (2010). His primary research interests are international cooperation and conflict. He is particularly interested in peace within countries and between countries, how peaceful relations emerge, and the role of conflict management and resolution in peaceful relations, including negotiation and mediation. He has also worked on the effect of civil wars on trade, measures of democracy in conflict studies, and role of business in democracy. He is responsible for the Correlates of War project's Diplomatic Exchange data set. Among his current projects are conflict expansion, war outcomes, Turkish foreign policy, revenge, diplomacy, power transitions in Middle East, terrorism, independence and civil wars, and Turkish security. He has recently published articles in Conflict Management and Peace Science and Journal of Peace Research as well as a chapter in the edited volume Çatışmadan Uzlaşmaya: Kuramlar, Süreçler ve Uygulamalar, (From Conflict to Cooperation: Theories, Processes, and Implementation).
WEB DESIGN AND CONTENT
Jameson Ungerer
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PHOTO CREDIT
Arif Akca