Ziya Öniş is Professor of Relations and the Director of the Center for Research on Globalization and Democratic
Governance (GLODEM) at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Until recently he was the Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University. He was previously a Professor of Economics and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He has written extensively on various aspects of Turkish political economy. His most recent research focuses on the political economy of globalization, crises and post-crises transformations, Turkey’s Europeanization and democratization experience and the analysis of new directions in Turkish foreign policy. Prof. Öniş has recently been granted one of the most prestigious science awards in Turkey; ‘TUBITAK Özel, Hizmet ve Teşvik Ödülü’.
Find here the Speech of Prof. Öniş regarding the TUBITAK award (in Turkish)
Most Recent Publications
-Professor Chris Rumford
Professor in Political Sociology and Global Politics, Royal Holloway University of London
Co-Director, Centre for Global and Transnational Politics
Professor Chris Rumford arrived at Royal Holloway on 1 September 2003 following a period as Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Istanbul Kultur University, and Visiting Fellow, City University, London. Chris has held a variety of positions including Senior Researcher at the Economic Development Foundation in Istanbul (IKV), and British Studies Consultant at the British Council.
Selected Publications:
(2012) “Many Europes: Rethinking multiplicity”, European Journal of Social Theory, 15(1): 3-20 (with W. Biebuyck).
(2011) (Ed.) special issue on New Perspectives on Turkey-EU Relations, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, (19)3 [will be reprinted by Routledge].
(2011) “Postwesternisation: A framework for understanding Turkey–EU relations”, in Fifty Years of EU-Turkey Relations edited by A. Cakir, Routledge, p. 136-157.
(2008) Cosmopolitan Spaces: Globalization, Europe, Theory (Routledge)
(2005) Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization (Routledge), [with Gerard Delanty].
-Professor Sandra Halperin
Professor of International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
Co-Director, Centre for Global and Transnational Politics
Professor Sandra Halperin earned postgraduate degrees in Political Science (M.A., PhD) from the University of California, Los Angeles, where her major field of study was International Relations, with minors in Comparative Politics and Middle East History.
She taught courses in International Relations theory and in Middle East politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh before moving, in 1998, to the University of Sussex. Prof. Halperin joined the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway in August 2006.
Selected Publications:
(2012) Political Research: Methods and Practical Skills, Oxford University Press (with O. Heath).
(2010) Global Development: a ‘Horizontal Perspective’. London: Routledge.
(2009) “Nationalism Reconsidered: The Local/Trans-local Nexus of Globalisation”, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 9(3): 465-480.
(2009) ‘Power to the People: nationally-embedded development and mass armies in the making of democracy’ Millennium: Journal of International Studies 37:3 (May), 605-630.
(2004) War and Social Change in Modern Europe: the great transformation revisited (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge).
