Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Mehmet Gurses is an associate professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. He received his B.A. degree in political science and international relations from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, and his doctorate from University of North Texas. His research interests include democracy and democratization, ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, post-civil war democratization, oil and democratization, and the emergence and evolution of the Islamist parties in the Middle East. His publications have appeared in International Interactions, Social Science Quarterly, Civil Wars, Defense and Peace Economics, Democratization, International Studies Perspectives, Party Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and Conflict Management and Peace Science.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Conflict Resolution
Democratization
Kurdish Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Turkey
Languages
Kurdish (fluent)
Turkish (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2007
| Political Science
| University of North Texas
Abstracts
Is Islam a Cure for Ethnic Nationalism? Evidence from the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
Trans-border Kurdish Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities
A Quiet Social Revolution: The Rise of Kurdish Women in Turkey
The Rise of “Kurdish Studies”: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
