Dr. Ünver is the Ertegün Lecturer of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at the Princeton University, Near Eastern Studies department. Previously he was a joint post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan’s Center for European Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North African Studies, where he authored several articles on Turkish politics, most notable of which is ”Turkey’s deep-state and the Ergenekon conundrum”, published by the Middle East Institute. Born and raised in Ankara, Turkey, he graduated from T.E.D. Ankara College in 1999 and earned his B.A. in International Relations from Bilkent University (2003) and MSc in European Studies from the Middle East Technical University (2005). He received his PhD from the Department of Government, University of Essex, where his dissertation, ‘A comparative analysis of the discourses on the Kurdish question in the European Parliament, US Congress and Turkish National Assembly‘ has won the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 2010 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in Social Sciences. Ak?n also assumed entry-level policy positions at the European Union Secretariat-General, Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Eurasian Center for Strategic Studies (ASAM) and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (D.C.), as well as teaching positions at the University of Essex (Theories of International Relations) and Sabanc? University (Turkey and the Middle East). You can follow other works of Akin through: Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/UnverAcademic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnverAcademic Website: http://www.akinunver.com/scholar/

International Relations/Affairs

Turkish Studies

Conflict Resolution

Democratization

Energy Studies

Foreign Relations

Human Rights

Middle East/Near East Studies

Ottoman Studies

Security Studies

Turkey

Europe

Ottoman Empire

Neofunctionalist IR Theory And Eurasian Energy Coo

Discourses Of Intra-state Conflict

Turkish (native)

English (fluent)