Director

Prof. Dr. HAKAN YILMAZ

Bogazici University

Department of Political Science and International Relations

34342 Bebek - ISTANBUL, TURKEY

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Hakan Yilmaz is Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations,

Bogazici University, Istanbul, and the executive coordinator of Bogazici University’s Master

of Arts Program in European Studies. He completed his undergraduate education at the

Economics Department of Bogazici University (1987). He received his MA (1991) and Ph.D.

(1996) degrees at the Political Science Department of Columbia University in New York City.

He has taught courses and published works in the areas of contemporary Turkish politics, the

culture and identity dimensions of European integration and European-Turkish relations, the

international context of democratization, and culture and politics. Dr. Yilmaz has run

research projects on Euroskepticism in Turkey (2004); conservatism in Turkey (2006); the

political and cultural attitudes of the Turkish middle classes (2007); and the cultural

determinants of French and German opposition to Turkey’s accession to the European Union

(2009). He is currently conducting a research project on the processes of othering in Turkey

and a second one on the European public perceptions of Turkey. He was awarded by the

European Commission a Jean Monnet course in the area of “issues of culture and identity in

European integration”.

Examples of his recent publications are : Placing Turkey on the Map of Europe (İstanbul:

Boğaziçi University Press, 2005); “Islam, Sovereignty, and Democracy: A Turkish View”

(Middle East Journal, Vol. 61, No. 3, Summer 2007, pp. 477-493); “Turkish Conservatism

and the Idea of Europe” (in Between Europe and the Mediterranean: The Challenges and the

Fears, ed. Paul Sant Cassia and Thierry Fabre, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, pp.

137-161), “Turkish Identity on the Road to the EU: Basic Elements of French and German

Oppositional Discourses” (Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Volume 9, Issue 3,

2007, pp.293-305); “Europeanization and Its Discontents: Turkey, 1959-2007” (in Turkey’s

Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy, ed. Constantine Arvanitopoulos,

Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2009, pp.53-64); “The International Context of Democratization”

(in Democratization, ed. Christian W. Haerpfer, Patrick Bernhagen, Ronald Inglehart, and

Christian Welzel, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp.92-106).