Mine Eder
oğaziçi University Department of Political Science and International Relations Bebek-Istanbul, Turkey, 32342
EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Government and Foreign Affairs Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, May 1993
Area of specialization: international political economy, political economy of development, late industrialization, labor politics, government-business relations
Dissertation: “Crises of Late-Industrialization: A comparative study of the automotive industry in Brazil, South Korea and Turkey.”
Based on field works in Brazil, July-November 1991, in South Korea, December 1991- January 1992, and Turkey, August 1990 and May 1992.
Directed by Professor Kenneth W. Thompson, Herman Schwartz, John Echeverri-Gent
MA in Foreign Affairs. Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, May 1989.
Area of specialization: Politics of development, international relations theory and state theories
Master Thesis: “Political economy of Military interventions in Turkey”
Graduate study in Political Science.
Institute of Social Sciences. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul,
1986-1987.
Area of specialization: Social Science Methodology.
BA in Political Science.
Department of Political Science and International relations
Administrative and Social Sciences. Boğaziçi University, June 1986.
High School. American Academy for Girls, Istanbul, 1976-1983.
EXPERIENCE: Visiting Professor, Yale University
Department of Political Science and Middle East Studies Council, 2009-2010
Chair, Boğaziçi University
Department of Political Science and International Relations
December 2007- August 2009
Professor, Boğaziçi University
Department of Political Science and International Relations
August 2005-present
Visiting Professor, Yale University,
Rice Family Foundation Fellow, Yale University, Department of Political Science and Middle East Studies Council, 2006-2007
Associate Professor, Boğaziçi University
Department of Political Science and International Relations
March 2000-August 2005
Consultant, State Planning Organization, Turkey,
Foreign Economic relations committee, 2005
Assistant Professor, Boğaziçi University
Department of Political Science and International Relations
June 1999- March 2000 and January 1995- January 1997
Member of Turkey’s MDGR (UN Millennium Development Goals) Research Team,
UNDP-Human Development Center, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 2003-2004.
Member of the Editorial Board, Turkish Studies,
2002-present
Visiting Research Fellow, George Washington University,
The Elliott School of International Affairs, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fall 2001
Assistant Professor, Lewis and Clark College
Portland, OR, USA
Department of International Affairs,
January 1997-June 1999 and September 1993-January 1995.
Reuters Fellow, Green College, Oxford, UK
September-December 1998
Columnist and consultant, Finansal Forum, (a Turkish economic daily), Istanbul. 1996-2004.
Instructor, Washington and Lee University,
Department of Commerce, Politics and Economics, 1991.
Teaching Assistant,
Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 1988-1991.
Library Reference Assistant,
Alderman Library Reference Department, University of Virginia,
1989- 1990.
Teaching and Research Assistant,
Department of Administrative and Social Sciences, Boğaziçi University, 1987.
AWARDS
AND GRANTS: World Bank Research Consultancy (For two nation-wide surveys on informality in Turkey) with Fikret Adaman and Ali Çarkoğlu, 2008-2009
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) (2007-2008)
“Modalities of organization among “new” migrants: A comparative analysis of Bulgarian Turks, Iraqi Turkmens and Moldavians in Turkey” (with Ayse Parla as project director,and Didem Danis)
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Residency Program (August 2006)
“Political economy of informal markets and its impact on democracy: The case of Turkey” (with Ali Çarkoglu)
Ford Foundation, Middle East Research Competition (MERC)
“Political economy of informal networks: Shopkeepers/street vendors and their political behavior” 2004-2005. with Ali Çarkoğlu Also supported by Bogaziçi University Research Matching Fund and Sabancı University Research Matching Fund.
Boğaziçi University, Academic Achievement Award, 2002
International Research Exchange, IREX, The Black and Caspian Sea Collaborative Research Program
Research proposal entitled: “Redefining Contagion: The Political Economy of the Suitcase Trade Between Turkey And Russia” 2001-2002 (Joint project with Kiren Chaudry, Andrei Yakovlev and Ali Carkoglu).
Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation Grant(TESEV)
“Political Economy of Turkey’s Customs Union with the EU:
a Curse or a Blessing?” 2002 with Gamze Avci
Boğaziçi University Research Fund
Research project entitled: “Internationalization of agriculture: Comparative perspectives from Mexico and Turkey” 1999-2000
Reuter Foundation Fellowship, Green College, Oxford University.
Research project entitled “Globalization and marginalization: political economy of financial liberalization in emerging markets.” Fall 1998.
Ford Foundation, Middle East Research Competition Grant. (MERC)
A research grant provided for a joint project on “Political Economy of Water management in Euphrates: A Focus on Turkey” 1997-1998. Together with Ali Çarkoğlu
Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)
A research grant provided for a joint research project on “Political economy of regional integration in the Middle East” January 1996. Together with Professors Ali Çarkoğlu and Kemal Kirisçi
Miller Center for Public Affairs Doctoral Grant University of Virginia, 1993.
Academic Enrichment Award University of Virginia, 1992. (Departmental doctoral grant)
Teaching Award awarded in recognition of her outstanding abilities as a teaching assistant.
Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 1991
Institute for the Study of World Politics Fellowship offered after a US wide competition as a doctoral research grant, 1992.
Dupont Fellowship Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, 1989-1992.
Fulbright Scholarship for Masters Degree, Turkish- American Exchange Student Program, 1987- 1990.
Fulbright Cultural Enrichment Award, Summer 1988.
High Honors Student Award, Boğaziçi University, 1987.
PUBLICATIONS: Book
The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East. Co-authored with Kemal Kirisci, Ali Çarkoğlu. London: Routledge Press (December 1998)
Articles and book chapters
“Structural reforms and welfare regime change in Turkey” Antonio Avalos, Carmen Rodríguez, Ana I. Planet, Hakan Yilmaz eds. Democracy and Democratization in Turkey Routledge (forthcoming)
“Turkey” in Ellen Lust edited. The Middle East 12nd Edition. CQ Press, (Sage) cp. 24.
“The Making of Transnational Communities: The Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul” In Marie-Laure Djelic, Sigrid Quack eds. Transnational Communities and the Regulation of Business (with Özlem Öz) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .
“Retreating State?: The Political Economy of Welfare Regime change in Turkey” Middle East Law and Governance 2.2009: 159-184.
“Bringing Political Economy Back in: A cynical look at secularism debate in Turkey” in Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keyser eds. Secularism Women & The state: The Mediterranean World in the 21st century Institute for the study of Secularism in Society and Culture, ISSC Publications, Trinity College, CT, 2009. pp.241-261.
“Scrutinizing the Link between Poverty and Business Strategy: What Can We Learn from the Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul?” in Charles Wankel ed. Alleviating poverty through business strategy (with Ozlem Oz) London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. pp.123-149.
“Rethinking the state through the Moldavian new migrants in Turkey” (In Turkish) Toplum ve Bilim, No: 108. 2007: 129-143.
“EU”niquesness of Turkey: Will it make to the EU?” in Regional Integration and Economic Reforms edited by Naglaa El Ehwany Cairo: Center for European Studies and Kondrad Adenauer Stiftung (2006): 108-129.
“Developmentalism à la Turca: The Southeast Anatolia Development Project” with Ali Çarkoğlu in Fikret Adaman and Murat Arsel eds. Environmentalism in Turkey: Between Development and Democracy? London: Ashgate. (2005):167-185.
“Populism As A Barrier To Integration With The EU: Rethinking The Copenhagen Criteria” in Mehmet Uğur and Nergis Canefe eds. Turkey’s Europe: An Internal Perspective On EU-Turkey Relations Routledge (2004): 49-74
“Political Economy of Agricultural reforms in Turkey” in Ahmet Insel eds. La Turquie et le developpement L’Harmattan, (2003): 211-245.
“Implementing the economic criteria of EU membership: How difficult is it for Turkey?” Turkish Studies vol.4 no.1 (Spring 2003): 219-245 (Also appeared as an edited volume from Frank Cass, Turkey and the European Union: Domestic Politics, Economic Integration and International Dynamics)
“The constraints on labour internationalism: contradictions and prospects” in Jeffery Harrod and Robert O’Brien edited Global Unions: Theory and strategies of organized labour in the global political economy Routledge (2002):167-185.
“New regionalism and increasing cost of integration: Comparative perspectives from Mexico and Turkey” Studies in Comparative International development 36.3. (2001):29-58
“The Challenge of Globalization and Turkey’s Changing Political Economy” Barry Rubin ve Kemal Kirişci eds. Turkey and its World: The emergence of a Multi-Regional Power. London: Lynne Rienner. (2001):189-215 ( Also printed in Turkish “Küreselleşme ve Türkiye’nin değişen ekonomi politiği” Günümüzde Türkiye’nin Dış Politikası (.2002):284-325.
“Water Conflict Over the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin” Barry Rubin ve Kemal Kirişci eds. Turkey and its World: The emergence of Multi- Regional power. London: Lynne Rienner (with Ali Çarkoğlu) ( 2001):235-250 ( Also printed in Turkish “Su İhtilafı: Frırat-Dicle Havzası”Günümüzde Türkiye’nin Dış Politikası” Bogazici Universitesi Yayınevi, Istanbul (2002):352-373.
“Domestic concerns and the water conflict over the Euphrates-Tigris River basin” Middle Eastern Studies 37. 1(January 2001): 41-72 (co-authored with Ali Çarkoğlu.)
“Becoming Western: Turkey and the European Union” Wil Hout and Jean Grugel eds. Regionalism across the north-south divide: state strategies and globalization. London: Routledge Press. (1999): 79-95.
“From Hydropolitics to Regional Integrated Development: Tranformation of GAP project and its implications” Turkish Review of Middle East Studies. (1998/1999): 215-233(co-authored with Ali Çarkoğlu.)
“The Southeast Anatolia Development Project from a Two-Level Game Perspective, Part I”, CIDC, Insight, Turkey, Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Cooperation publication, (co-authored with Ali Çarkoğlu ) (July 1998): 111-123.
“The Southeast Anatolia Development Project from a Two-Level Game Perspective, Part II”, CIDC, Insight, Turkey, Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Cooperation publication (co-authored with Ali Çarkoğlu) (August 1998):113-120
“The Southeast Anatolia Development Project and the Water Conflict,” Private View TUSIAD (Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen Association), Istanbul, Turkey, (co-authored with Ali Çarkoğlu.) (October 1998):58-69.
Türkiye ve Ortadoğu’da Bölgesel İşbirliğinin Ekonomi Politiği, Türkiye’nin Bölgesel Orta ve Uzun Dönem Politika Analizi (Political Cooperation and Economic Integration in the Middle East: An Analysis of Turkey's Regional Foreign Policy Options), in Turkish, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV). (co-authored with Ali Çarkoğlu and Kemal Kirisci) 1998.
“Shop floor politics and labor mobilization: Democratization in Brazil and South Korea” Critical Sociology. 23.2(1997): 3-33.
“Micropolitics of late-industrialization: Comparative perspectives form South Korea and Brazil. Boğaziçi Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences 10.1-2 (March 1996): 157-190, Istanbul.
"Economic Democracy: What can the intellectuals do" in Culture, Development and Democracy: the Role of the Intellectuals. Selo Soemardjan and Kenneth W. Thompson. Tokyo: United Nations University Press (1994):53-73.
Review articles/comments
“Revisiting the Kurdish problem” South European Society and Politics 12.4 (2007): 559-561.
“Learning to live with violence of uncertainty: rethinking globalization, work and IMC” 10th International Istanbul Biennial Catalogue, "Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global, (2007) 238-251 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (2007) 238-251 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. (Printed in Turkish and English)Sept. 8-November 4, 2007) Curator: Hou Hanru
Comments on Brenda Chalfin’s “Global Customs Regime and the Traffic in Sovereignty” Current Anthropology 47 (2006): 275-276
“Dimensions of western foreign direct investment in Turkey” Middle East Journal 55.2 (2001): 145-46.
“Turkey: Still the sick man of Europe?” New perspectives on Turkey. 16 Spring (1997): 130-138.
REPORTS: TUBITAK Report
“Modalities of organization among “new” migrants: A comparative analysis of Bulgarian Turks, Iraqi Turks and Moldavians in Turkey” (with Ayse Parla as project director,and Didem Danis), 2008
“Turkey’s Informal economy: A sectoral analysis of construction, ready-to wear apparel and food industries” (prepared for Turkish Businessmen Association, TUSIAD) September 2006
Turkey’s MDGR Draft report prepared for Bogazici Human Development Center under the guidance of Prof. Yilmaz Esmer with research assistance of Dilek Yankaya and Cenk Ünlü. Submitted to UNDP Turkey 2005
TESEV report, Political Economy of Customs Union: A curse or a blessing?” With Gamze Avcı
WORK IN
PROGRESS: “Rendering Istanbul’s bazaars invisible: Reflections on urban transformation and contested space“ With Ozlem Oz, (submitted to International Journal of Urban and Regional Research)
“Political economy of migrant domestic labor in Turkey” (with Ayse Parla) (to be submitted to Identities)
RECENT
CONFERENCES
LECTURES:
“Paradoxes of democratization: AKP and Islamist populism in Turkey” Northwestern University, “Turkey and its neighborhood” conference, May 17, 2010
“Rethinking AKP-led governments and neoliberal patronage politics in Turkey” MESA Conference, Boston, November 21-24, 2009.
“From Informal Welfarism to Charity: Neoliberalization and changing welfare governance in Turkey” Yale University and World Bank Workshop Series in Rethinking Development: Societal Transformation and the Challenges of Governance,” October 2008 and January 2009.
Post-Soviet Migrant Labor To Turkey at the intersections of Gender, Ethnicity And Legal Status” Conference On Gender Studies In Turkey: Inequalities, Struggles And Advances (with Ayşe Parla) Nov. 29-30, 2008, Koç University, Istanbul
“EU's peripheral trading partner or a regional hub?: The case of Turkey” Conference on Regionalism in the Middle East Hebrew University, Jerusalem 10-12 June, 2008.
“Political economy of the rise of AKP: Democrats or Islamic Populists?” London School of Economics, Institute for European Studies, Contemporary Turkish Seminar Series, May 19, 2008
The Making of Transnational Communities: The Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul” Workshop on “Transnational Communities”, April 17-18, 2008, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (with Ozlem Öz)
“The underside of Turkey’s globalization” Middle East Studies Association, (MESA) Montreal, Canada, November 16-71, 2007
“Bringing Political Economy Back in: A cynical look at secularism debate in Turkey” Trinity College, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC), Rome, Italy July 2-3rd, 2007.
“Transnational Communities and Organization of Economic Activity: The Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli (Istanbul)” European Group in Organization Studies, (EGOS) Vienna, July 7-9, 2007 with Özlem Öz.
“Informal transnationalism: The underside of Turkey’s economic globalization” Illicit flows speaker series, Watson Institute of International Studies, Brown University, March 20, 2007
“Rethinking the state through the Moldavian domestic workers in Turkey” International Studies Association, Chicago, February 28-March 3, 2007, and November 29, 2006 Yale University, Middle East Studies Council, Luncheon series.
“Rethinking political economy of informality in Turkey: A threat to democracy?” How do we free the Market and Liberate the People? Comparative Reflections on Developing Democracies and the Case of Turkey Conference at Northwestern University, November 14 and 15, 2006
“EU’niqueness of Turkey: Prospects for Turkey’s membership” Florida University, Center for European Studies. January 18, 2005,
“Will Turkey join the EU? Economic reforms, challenges and prospects” Presented at a one-day workshop entitled “Reginal Integration and Reforms: European and Arab experiences” Cairo, Center for European Studies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, November 29, 2004.
Populism as a barrier to Turkey’s integration” London, Greenwich University, June 1, 2004
“Informality and Turkey’s membership to the EU” ECPR, Bologna, June 22-24, 2004
“Globalization versus populism: A false dichotomy?” September 22-25, 2003 Marburg, Germany, ECPR Conference
“State as a part of informal trade networks: The case of suitcase trade in Laleli district in Istanbul” International Studies Association/ Central and Eastern Europe (CEE/ISA) Annual Convention, Budapest June 26-29, 2003.
Workshop co-director “Mediterranean Merchants: Politics, economics and culture of informal networks” in Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, 4th Mediterranean Social and Political Meeting, Florence, March 2003, with Aida Hozic.
“From Suitcase Trade to organized informal trade: the case of Laleli district in Istanbul” in 4th Mediterranean Social and Political Meeting, Florence, March 2003
“Redefining Contagion: Political economy of suitcase trade between Turkey and Russia” Presented as the final research report Joint IREX meeting, Istanbul, August 2002.
“Understanding informal trade networks” George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, Institute of European and Eurasian Studies, December 4, 2001
“Turkey’s economic liberalization: What went wrong?” Harvard University, Center for Middle East Studies, Study Group on Modern Turkey. Cambridge, October 24, 2001
UNIVERSITY
SERVICES: Chair, Department of Political Science and IR, December 2007 August 2009
Associate Dean, Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences 2002-2006
Erasmus Coordinator, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, 2004-2006
Member of Exchange Student Committee, 2004-2006, 2007-present
Exchange Advisor and Erasmus Representative for Department of Political Science and International relations, 2003-2006
Member of University Life Ethics Committee, 2003-2006
Member of the European Studies Center, 2004-present
Member of the Social Policy Forum, 2004-present
Assistant chair, Department of Political Science and
International relations, 1999-2001
SKILLS: Languages: English (excellent), Portuguese (proficient), French (proficient) German and Spanish (reading).
OTHER: Date of birth: June 8, 1965, References available upon request.
