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Birol A. Yeşilada Birol A. Yeşilada Division of Political Science Mark O. Hatfield School of Government P.O. Box 751 Portland State University Portland, OR 97202-0751 (503) 725-3257 e-mail: [email protected] Education Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1984 (Political Science) M.A., San Francisco State University, 1979 (Political Science) B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1977 (Neurobiology) Employment Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Portland State University (1998-present) Contemporary Turkish Studies Chair, Portland State University (1998-present) Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia (1991-98) Assistant Professor, University of Missouri (1985-91) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia (1984-85) Visiting Assistant Professor, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (1987-88) Visiting Faculty (consultant and trainer), Foreign Service Institute, Department of State (1994- 2006) Administrative Appointments: Director, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University Interim Director, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University (2017 – 2018) Director, Center for Turkish Studies, Portland State University (1999-present) Director, Middle East Studies Center, Portland State University (9/2014-7/2017) PI-World Values Survey (for Cyprus) Director/coordinator, Public Administration and Policy Doctoral Program, Portland State University (2001-2007) Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia (1994-98) Founding Director, EU Center of Excellence, University of Missouri-Columbia (1998) Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia (1991-94) Research Skills: Survey Research, Complex Dynamic Systems, Decision-Making and Modeling, Numerical Analysis, Multivariate Time Series Analysis (inc. interrupted models), Econometrics. Fluent in English and Turkish, reading knowledge of French Current Research Projects/status: Dynamics of Cultural Change: The Human Development Perspective (with Mark Abdollahian, Travis Coan, and Zining Yang) - testing robustness of the model – preparing the survey instrument for 2017 Wave. Power transition analysis (with Jacek Kugler, Gaspare Genna, and Osman Goktug Tanrikulu) – continuous project for further refinement of Power Transition Theory. Decision-Making Analysis of the Cyprus Bargaining Space - research paper (with Jacek Kugler) Socio-economic and Political factors behind the rise of Radical Islam in Turkey and policy challenges for the Western states – book manuscript under preparation. Refereed Publications: Books Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union (with Jacek Kugler, Gaspare Genna, and Osman Tanrikulu). London: Routledge, 2017). EU-Turkey Relations in the 21st Century (London: Routledge, 2013). Vitae/Birol Yesilada 1 Islamization of Turkey Under the AKP Rule, co ed. With Barry Rubin (London and New York: Routledge, 2011). The Emerging European Union (with David M. Wood; New York: Longman, 1996, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010; 5 editions) Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites: Essays in Honor of Samuel J. Eldersveld. ed. by Birol A. Yesilada. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999). The Political and Socioeconomic Transformation of Turkey, ed. by Atila Eralp, Muharrem Tünay, and Birol Yesilada. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993) Agrarian Reform in Reverse: The Food Crisis in the Third World, ed. by Birol Yesilada, Charles Brockett, and Bruce Drury. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1987) Foreign Language Book SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİR BÜYÜMENİN EKONOMİ POLİTİĞİ [Political Economy of Sustainable Economic Growth in Turkey] (with Mahir Fisunoglu) Istanbul: Aktive Academy 2005. Third Prize in national competition on Economic development sponsored by Aktive Finans in Turkey. Selected Journal Articles “Has Capitalism Lost its Puritan Spirit? What do Recent WVS Data Say about Religiosity and Work Values?” (with Veysel Bozkurt) Economics and Sociology, Vol. 10, No. 2, (2017):125- 139. “Regional Power Transition and the Future of Turkey,” (with Osman Göktuğ Tanrıkulu) Uluslararası İlişkiler, Volume 13, No. 52, (2016): 23-46. “The Future of Erdogan and the AKP,” Turkish Studies, Vol 17, no. 1 (February):19-30. “Consequences of Reversing the European Union Integration” (with Jacek Kugler and Ali Fisunoglu) Foreign Policy Analysis 11 (2015): 45-67. “Human Development Dynamics: An Agent Based Simulation of Macro Social Systems and Individual Heterogeneous Evolutionary Games,” (with Mark Abdollahian, Zining Yang, and Travis Coan) Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling 1:18 (2013): 1-17. “Dynamics of Cultural Change: The Human Development Perspective (with Mark Abdollahian, Travis Coan and Hana Oh) International Studies Quarterly 50 (December 2012):827-42. “World Values Survey in Cyprus 2006: A Research Note,” (with Craig Webster, Nicos Peristianis, Harry Anastasiou) Cyprus Review Vol 22 no. 1 (July 2010): 153-167. “Changing Values in Turkey: Religiosity and Tolerance in Comparative Perspective” (with Peter Noordijk), Turkish Studies, Vol 11 no 1 (Spring 2010):9-27. “Religiosity and Social Values of the Cypriots” (with Peter Noordijk and Craig Webster) Social Compass 56:1 (2009): 15-34. “Islam and the Turkish Cypriots,” Social Compass 56:1 (2009):46-59. "Dynamics of Cultural Change” (with Mark Abdollahian, Travis Coan, Hana Oh) World Values Research Papers 1, 4 (2008): 85-108 http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org “The Role of EU in Democratization of Turkey & Some other Unexpected Issues,” Re-public re- imagining democracy online journal published in Greece, November 2008. http://www.re- public.gr/en/?p=446 “Competition among Giants: A Look at How Future Enlargement of the European Union Could Affect Global Power Transition,” (with Brian Efird and Peter Noordijk), International Studies Review Vol. 8, no. 4 (December 2006):607-622. “The Political Future of Afghanistan and Its Implications for U.S. Policy” (with Jacek Kugler and Brian Efird), Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 20, no. 1 (Spring 2003):43-72. “Negotiating a Resolution to the Cyprus Problem: Is Potential EU Membership a Blessing or a Curse?” (with Ahmet Sözen) International Negotiation Journal Vol. 7, no. 2 (2002):261-85 “The Virtue Party,” Turkish Studies (Spring, 2002):62-81. “Turkey’s Candidacy to Join the European Union,” The Middle East Journal Vol 56, no. 1 (Winter 2002):94-112. “The Worsening EU-Turkey Relations,” The SAIS Review (December 1998). “Prospects for Turkey's Membership in the European Community," International Journal of Turkish Studies Vol. 6, no 1&2 (Winter 1996):37-60 "European Integration in the 1980's and 1990's" Business & the Contemporary World, (with David Wood) Vol. 3, no. 3 (Spring, 1991): 89-101 "Social Progress and Political Development in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" The Cyprus Review, Vol. 1, no. 2 (Autumn 1989): 90-112 Vitae/Birol Yesilada 2 "Problems of Political Development in the Third Turkish Republic" Polity Vol. XXI, no. 2 (Winter 1988): 345-372 "North-South Relations and the Information Age" International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, (with Manoucherh Hosseinzadeh) Vol. 26, no 1-2 (Jan-April 1989): 1-25 "New Political Parties and the Problems of Development in Turkey" New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol. 1, no 1 (Fall 1987):35-62 "World Market Recessions and Economic Development: A Look at Alternative Rescue Policies for the Third World" International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 24, no 1-2 (January-April 1987): 57-69 "The Effect of Political Inputs on Economic Growth" Modeling, Simulation, and Control (with Sencer Yeralan and Davla Vivas) Vol. 5, no 1 (1986): 15-25 Selected Chapters “Religiosity and Political Values in post-2000 Turkey,” (with Peter Noordijk) in Democratic Consolidation in Turkey: Micro and Macro Challenges, Cengiz Erisen and Paul Kubicek eds. London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 21-37. “Political Capacity, Leadership, and Regional Integration in Europe,” (with Gaspare Genna and Peter Noordijk) in The Performance of Nations, edited by Ronald Tammen and Jacek Kugler (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012). “Emperor Has No Clothes: EU’s Cyprus Challenge” (with Ahmet Sozen) in The Cyprus Conflict: Looking Ahead Ahmet Sozen, ed. (Famagusta, TRNC: Eastern Mediterranean University Press, 2008):103-120. “Assessing Research on Turkish Foreign Policy and International Political Economy,” in Turkish Studies in the United States, Donald Quataert and Sabri Sayari eds., (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), pp. 59-74. “Turkey and the United States,” In Dangerous Neighborhood: Aspects of Turkey’s Foreign Relations, ed., Michael Radu (Transaction Books, 2002) “Realignment and Party Adaptation: The Case of Refah & Fazilet Parties,” In Politics, Parties and Elections in Turkey, eds. Sabri Sayari and Yilmaz Esmer (Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2002). “The Refah Party Phenomenon in Turkey.” In Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites: Essays in Honor of Samuel J. Eldersveld “The Mediterranean Challenge,” in The Expanding European Union: Past, Present and Future, eds. John Redmond and Glenda G. Rosenthal (Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 1998) "Turkey's Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East "The Political and Socioeconomic Transformation of Turkey" (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993):169-192 "Assessing the January 24, 1980 Economic Stabilization Program in Turkey" in The Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East, ed. by Henri J. Barkey (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992): 183-212. (with Mahir Fisunoglu) "The
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