Mr Yusuf Yerkel
BA Fatih University (Istanbul), MA (Exeter)
Overview
- Name:
- Mr Yusuf Yerkel
- Email address:
- Yusuf_yerkel@soas.ac.uk
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Thesis title:
- A critical analysis of the culture of geopolitics: The relationship between Turkey and Iran in the post 1980s. (Preliminary)
- Year of Study:
- 1
- Website:
- http://yerkel.wordpress.com
Internal Supervisors
PhD Research
My research will be a comparative analysis of Turkey and Iran regarding their foreign policy towards the Middle East that will try to lay down the zone of conflict and cooperation in the post 1980. The research will be based on the role of imperial legacy and cultural identity in a way that labels global space, construct images of world politics and provide framework within which certain events and policies gains meaning, and shape the cognitive map of policymakers that eventually feed into the geopolitical thinking of Turkey and Iran.
Rather than employing traditional geopolitics, I will deploy a critical geopolitical discourse in a way that enables us to see how both states know, categorize and make sense of world politics which is primarily derived by interpretative cultural practice.
PhD Publications
Journals
- The Fault Lines of Direct Peace Talks: The domestic sources of the vicious circle of Obama, Netanyahu and Abbas, Middle Eastern Analysis, Volume 2, No 22, October 2010
Periodicals
- Avrupa’da çok kültürlülüğün fay hattı: Öteki olarak İslam (The fault line of multiculturalism in Europe: Islam as the Other), Perspektif, June 2010.
Newspaper Articles
- Türkiye’nin komşularla sıfır problem modeli ve Ortadoğu’nun güvenlik kültürü: Petrol Örneği (Turkey’s zero problem policy and the security culture of the Middle East: The case of oil), USA Sabah, 11 October 2010.
- Referandumun ardindan: Kazana kim kaybeden kim? (In the aftermath of referendum: who is the winner and looser?), USA Sabah, 16 September 2010.
- What the prospective direct peace talks holds for future, USA Sabah, 5 September 2010.
- Akçura’dan Davutoğlu’na: Türk Dış Politikasının stratejik zihniyeti (From Akcura to Davutoglu: The strategic mentality of Turkish foreign policy), Star Gazetesi Açık Görüş, 19 July 2010.
PhD Affiliations
SETA DC (Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research) Research Assistant
