Birol A Yesilada
Birol A. Yeşilada is a professor of Political Science and International Studies at Portland State University (PSU). He is the Director of the Mark O. Hatfield Cyber Defense and Cybersecurity Policy Center at PSU (NCAE-C Institution) and the Director of the Center for Turkish Studies. He was Director of the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government during 2017-2022. He also holds holder of the endowed chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies. He served as past-Vice President of the International Studies Association from 2020 to 2021 and is a member of the Board of TransResearch Consortium. Previously he served as Director of the Middle East Studies Center at PSU (2014-17). Dr. Yeşilada came to PSU in September 1998 from the University of Missouri-Columbia where he was Chair of the Department of Political Science.
Dr. Yeşilada received his B.A. degree in 1977 in Neurobiology from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. in Political Science in 1979 from San Francisco State University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1984 from the University of Michigan. His current research interests include Global power transition, Cybersecurity/Cyber Defense, the European Union, political and economic development of Turkey, radical Islam and terrorism, the Cyprus negotiations and international conflict resolution, and politics of economic reform in the emerging markets. He is the Principal Investigator for the World Values Survey Project in Cyprus. His recent publications include several books: Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union, EU-Turkey Relations in the 21st Century, Islamization of Turkey Under the AKP Rule, The Emerging European Union, Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites, and over 30 articles and book chapters on topics pertaining to social values and democracy, consolidation of democracy, agent-based models for testing Human Development Dynamics theories, religiosity and political values, and how social values inform regional integration among countries. He is the former co-editor-in-chief of International Studies Perspectives and former Associate editor of the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin.
Dr. Yeşilada has been an invited policy consultant at the U.S. State Department and various agencies of the U.S. government, the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND, Booz Allen Hamilton, Nathan Associates, Barclays Capital, the World Bank, and is an Academic Associate of the Atlantic Council. In 2003, he was invited by the White House and participated in the commission that drafted the new Constitution of Afghanistan.
Dr. Yeşilada received his B.A. degree in 1977 in Neurobiology from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. in Political Science in 1979 from San Francisco State University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1984 from the University of Michigan. His current research interests include Global power transition, Cybersecurity/Cyber Defense, the European Union, political and economic development of Turkey, radical Islam and terrorism, the Cyprus negotiations and international conflict resolution, and politics of economic reform in the emerging markets. He is the Principal Investigator for the World Values Survey Project in Cyprus. His recent publications include several books: Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union, EU-Turkey Relations in the 21st Century, Islamization of Turkey Under the AKP Rule, The Emerging European Union, Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites, and over 30 articles and book chapters on topics pertaining to social values and democracy, consolidation of democracy, agent-based models for testing Human Development Dynamics theories, religiosity and political values, and how social values inform regional integration among countries. He is the former co-editor-in-chief of International Studies Perspectives and former Associate editor of the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin.
Dr. Yeşilada has been an invited policy consultant at the U.S. State Department and various agencies of the U.S. government, the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND, Booz Allen Hamilton, Nathan Associates, Barclays Capital, the World Bank, and is an Academic Associate of the Atlantic Council. In 2003, he was invited by the White House and participated in the commission that drafted the new Constitution of Afghanistan.
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Surveying the European Union's evolution from the Rome Treaty to the present, The Emerging European Union captures the full story of Europe's ongoing integration, its changing identity, and its increasing importance as a global actor in the 21st Century. This text's concise but comprehensive overview of the history, institutions, and policies of the European Union lays out the major elements of the European integration and explain how the European Union functions. Emphasizing competing intergovernmental and supranational forces, The Emerging European Union explains the origins and future of the European Union as well as its political uniqueness.
The contributors reexamine some of the classical issues found in the behavioral literature on political parties and party elites, shedding new light on issues such as the influence of women on political parties, the impact on parties of social change, the relationship between electoral alliances and political outcomes, the effect of emerging elites on parties, and the role of parties as links between the masses and government elites.
The contributors—all students of Samuel J. Eldersveld—put this volume together in his honor. As Dwanine Marvick puts it, "[They] bring Professor Elderveld's concern with evidence and with methods of inquiry--an insistence on feasible and tested procedures, a shrewdness about how questions should be phrased, a sensitivity about the changing responsiveness of aging institutions to unfolding contextual realities to bear on these significant questions. . . ."
This volume fills a vacuum in the existing literature on political parties and party elites. Elite literature, in particular, has been ignored in recent studies in political science. As such, it is of interest to scholars and graduate students of political parties and elites.
This book seeks to provide a comprehensive assessment of the fluctuating relations between the EU and Turkey in the twenty-first century. Applying complementary theoretical models to evaluate prospects for Turkey’s membership, analysis includes; Turkey’s report card on the Copenhagen criteria, public opinion in Europe and Turkey, and benefits and challenges based on projection estimates. The results show that whilst both sides stand to make significant gains from Turkey’s membership, the current state of affairs point in the direction of a failure.
Examining complex issues surrounding EU-Turkey relations and addressing the critical question of what will happen if Turkey is rejected by the EU, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, Turkey and the wider Middle East.
This work was prompted by our recent work on European integration (Yesilada et al. 2018). We show that deepening of regional integration in Europe depends on the convergence of social values between member states of the European Union . We conjecture that the same process but in reverse is at play within states challenged by civil wars. Civil wars may take place in countries where values diverge from those of the central government and in states with a history of autonomous self-rule rebels will seek independence.
Previous work on civil war suggests this path may be profitable provided we add controls for the relative capacity of opposing groups to wage a civil war. This pilot-study is a preliminary attempt to identify some of the factors behind the civil war. We focus on value divergence and convergence first because this aspect of the civil war has not been directly addressed and if successful, could signal ways that governments and foreign aid provide can reduce the level of dissent within society. The model we outline below outlines our objectives for the future and incorporates measures of relative capabilities and controls for previous independent status
in addition to value measures presented here.