CV | Gonca Biltekin | Ph.D. in International Relations

Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research
Bilkent University, G Building Room 157
Ankara, Turkey

Phone: +(90)312 290 29 85

Education

Peer Reviewed Publications

Biltekin, Gonca and Ersel Aydınlı, “Time to Quantify Turkey’s Foreign Affairs: Setting Quality Standards for a Maturing International Relations Discipline” International Studies Perspectives (2016): 1-21 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekv009 First published online: 27 January 2016
Biltekin, Gonca “Özgün Kuram Oluşturma ve Batı-dışı Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramları” (“Original Theory Building and Non-Western Theories of International Relations”) Uluslararası İlişkiler Teorileri, edited by Ramazan Gözen. İstanbul: İletişim, 2015 (2nd edition).
Biltekin, Gonca and Volkan İpek, “Turkey’s Foreign Policy Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Post-international Approach” New Perspectives on Turkey 49, (Fall, 2013): 121-156.
Biltekin, Gonca and Musa Tüzüner, “A Pilot Study of Quantifying Turkey’s Foreign Affairs: Data Generation, Challenges and Preliminary Analysis” All-Azimuth: Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2, no 2, (2013) : 47- 70.

Working Papers

Biltekin, Gonca and Ersel Aydınlı, “Widening the World of IR: A Typology of Homegrown Theorizing” (under review)
Biltekin, Gonca, “Proactivism and Activism in Turkey’s Foreign Affairs: A Proposal for Clarification and Operationalization of Concepts”
Biltekin, Gonca, “Domestic Conflict and Foreign Affairs: An Event Data Study of Turkey (1991-2013)“
Biltekin, Gonca, ”Turkey’s Axis Shift: An Evidence Based Analysis”

Research Experience

Lead Researcher, Turkish International Relations (TIR) Dataset, 2015. available at http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P6CPAF, Harvard Dataverse, V1: Research design, supervision of coders, data collection, coding and analysis
Lead Researcher, Turkish Foreign Affairs Event Dataset (TFAED), Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Ankara Turkey, 2010-…: Data collection, improvement of actor coding scheme, coding and analysis
Research Assistant to Dr. Ersel Aydınlı, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2006-2012
Research Assistant to Final Reporters of the Programme on Promoting Good Governance in the Security Sector of Turkey, by Center for European Security Studies (CESS) and Bilkent University, 2011
Research Fellow, Dept. of International Relations, Katip Çelebi University, İzmir Turkey, 2013

Teaching Experience

Introduction to World Politics (Undergraduate Level), 2015-2016 Spring/Summer. Lecturer, Bilkent University, Ankara
Turkish Foreign Policy II (Senior Undergraduate Level), 2012-2013 Summer. Lecturer, Bilkent University, Ankara
Turkey’s International Relations (Graduate level) 2010-2012. Teaching Assistant, Bilkent University, Ankara

Other Professional Experience

Managing Editor, All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace, 2015-…
Foreign Relations Official, General Directorate of State Water Works, 2006-2007
Assistant Intern, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ankara, 2003

Conference/Workshop Organization

2^nd All Azimuth Workshop on Homegrown Theorizing, Ankara, 23-24 September, 2016, Associate Convener
PeaceTalk: Young Scholar Series, Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, October 2015, March 2016, May 2016, Chief Convener
FPPR Senior Scholar Series, Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Associate Convener
International Congress on River Basin Management, Antalya, 22-24 March 2007, Convention Team Member
Preparatory events and meetings leading to Turkey’s hosting of 5th World Water Forum in 2009, Convention Team Member

Awards & Fellowships

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, (2014-…)
TUBITAK Doctoral Scholarship (2008-2012) Recipient of highly selective scholarship by Turkish official research organization to fund doctoral research, $30.000.
Bilkent University, Full Scholarship for Graduate Studies (2005-2007) (Tuition Waiver + Monthly stipend + Accommodation)
Bilkent University, Full Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies (200-2004) (Tuition Waiver + Monthly stipend +Accommodation)
Top 0.1 % at the nation-wide Higher Education Selection and Placement Examination (OSYS) 2000

Participation in Academic Conferences, Workshops

European Consortium for Political Science Summer School in Methods and Techniques, Budapest 28 July-5 August 2016
Python Programming for Social Scientists: Web Data, Scraping and Other Useful Programming Tricks
Theoretically Informed Network Analysis for Social Scientists
European International Studies Association (EISA) 10th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, İzmir, Turkey, September 2016 (Cancelled)
”Turkey’s Axis Shift: An Evidence Based Analysis”
International Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2016
“Proactivism and Activism in Turkey’s Foreign Affairs: A Proposal for Clarification and Operationalization of Concepts”
“Domestic Conflict and Foreign Affairs: An Event Data Study of Turkey (1991-2013)
Event Data Workshop: Quantifying Security Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis in Turkey and the Greater Middle East İstanbul, Turkey, December 2011
“Quantification of Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Via Event Data: Proposing the Turkish Foreign Policy Behavior and Orientation Dataset (1990-2013)“ (with Ersel Aydınlı and Musa Tüzüner)
Center for European Security Studies, Interactive Seminars on Civil-Military Relations, Ankara, Turkey, 2010-2011
“Turkish National Security Council and Wars in Iraq: 1991-2003”
“Security sector reform: Turkish Gendarmerie“

Languages

Technical Skills