Name: Birol Yesilada
Academic Title: Professor & Contemporary Turkish Studies Chair
Email Address: yesilada@pdx.edu
Birol A. Yeşilada is the Director of the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government and is a professor of Political Science and International Studies at Portland State University (PSU). He also holds the holder of the endowed chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies and is Director of the National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (an NSA/DHS designation) at PSU. He is former Vice President of ISA and is a member of the Board of TransResearch Consortium. Previously he served as Director of the Middle East Studies Center at PSU (2014-17). Dr. Yeşilada came to PSU in September 1998 from The University of Missouri-Columbia where he was Chair of the Department of Political Science.
Dr. Yeşilada received his B.A. degree in 1977 in Neurobiology from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. in Political Science in 1979 from San Francisco State University and his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1984 from the University of Michigan. His current research interests include: Global power transition, Cybersecurity/Cyber Defense, the European Union, political and economic development of Turkey, radical Islam and terrorism, the Cyprus negotiations, and international conflict resolution, and politics of economic reform in the emerging markets. He is the Principal Investigator for the World Values Survey Project in Cyprus. His recent publications include several books: Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union, EU-Turkey Relations in the 21st Century, Islamization of Turkey Under the AKP Rule, The Emerging European Union, Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites and over 30 articles and book chapters. His is the former co-editor-in-chief of International Studies Perspectives and former Associate editor of Middle East Studies Association Bulletin.
Dr. Yeşilada has been an invited policy consultant at the U.S. State Department and various agencies of the U.S. government, the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND, Booz Allen Hamilton, Nathan Associates, Barclays Capital, the World Bank, and is an Academic Associate of the Atlantic Council. In 2003, he was invited by the White House and participated in the commission that drafted the new Constitution of Afghanistan.
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