Royal Holloway, University of London
Graduate Student, Politics and International Relations
Teaching Assistant
Thesis Title: Turkey-European Union Relations from a World Polity Perspective
About
Didem has a BSc (International Relations) from Middle East Technical University (Turkey), Masters by Research (Politics and International Relations) from the University of Edinburgh (UK), and Professional Masters diploma (International Relations) from Paris Institute of Strategic and International Relations-IRIS. She worked in Turkish Grand National Assembly as a parliamentary assistant and in Istanbul Ticaret University as a research assistant. Her PhD thesis in Royal Holloway, 'Turkey-European Union Relations from a World Polity Perspective', is supervised by Professor Chris Rumford and draws on the Stanford School of Sociological Institutionalism to examine the relations between Turkey and the EU on a wide array of policy areas that include the rights of foreigners to work and own land in Turkey, freedom of expression, Ombudsmanship and the Cyprus conflict. She presented papers in the UACES, EUPRA, and PSA graduate conferences. Didem is currently associate editor of the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies and the co-leader of the 'Changing Turkey in a Changing World' research group/blog affiliated with the Center for Global and Transnational Politics at Royal Holloway.
Pls see: http://www.criticalglobalisation.com
Pls see: http://www.changingturkey.wordpress.com
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