2008
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Journals:
 
 
Bulent Aras and Sule Toktas, “Afghanistan’s Security: Political Process, State-Building and Narcotics,” Middle East Policy, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp: 39-52, 2008.
 
Sule Toktas, “Cultural Identity, Minority Position and Immigration: Turkey’s Jewish Minority vs. Turkish-Jewish Immigrants in Israel,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp: 511-525, 2008.
 
Pinar Falcioglu and Sedef Akgüngör, "Regional Specialization and Industrial Concentration Patterns in the Turkish Manufacturing Industry: An Assessment for the 1980-2000 period, European Planning Studies", 16 (2), pp. 303-323, February 2008.
 
Ahmet Icduygu, Sule Toktas and Bayram Ali Soner, “The Politics of Population in a Nation Building Process: Emigration of Non-Muslims from Turkey,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp: 358-389, 2008.
 
Books (or Book Chapters):
 
Sule Toktas, Guvenlik, Demokrasi ve Istikrar Sarmalinda Suriye ve Afganistan (Syria and Afghanistan at the Nexus of Security, Democracy and Stability, Ankara: Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Toplum Araştirmalari Vakfi (SETA), 2008, ISBN: 978-605-4023-00-4, (with Bulent Aras).
 
Mehmet E. Karaaslan, "Privatization by Franchising: Commissioned Entrepreneurs The Case of Sumer Holding Sales Outlets in Turkey" in Oglesby, R.A. and Adams, M.G. (Eds.) Business Research Yearbook, Global Business Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 315-320, 2008.
 
Conference Presentations:
 
 
Sule Toktas, “Migration and Population Homogenization in the Formation of the Turkish Nation-State.” Paper presented at the comparative workshop on ‘Are Turkey and Israel Secular Nation-States?,’ organized by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem – Israel, May 26-27, 2008.
 
Sule Toktas, “International Migration and Non-Muslims in EU-Turkey Relations” and “Citizenship in Israel and Turkey.” Two presentations at Milan University Department of Social and Political Sciences, Milan - Italy, April 23-24, 2008.
 
Sule Toktas, The Role and Influence of Think-Tanks in the Making of National Security Culture: A Case Study on the Think-Tanks and International Relations Specialists in Turkey,” and “Dilemmas of Security: Security-Democracy and Security-Stability Dilemmas in the Cases of Syria and Afghanistan.” Two presentations at the 49th International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, San Francisco – U.S.A., March 25 – March 30, 2008.
 
Rabia Karakaya Polat, "The European Union as a Desecuritizer: Securitization and Desecuritization of Turkey’s Kurdish Question", Paper presented at the 58th Annual Conference of Political Studies Association, Swansea University, United Kingdom, 1 – 3 April, 2008.
 
Mehmet E. Karaaslan, "Privatization by Franchising: Commissioned Entrepreneurs The Case of Sumer Holding Sales Outlets in Turkey." Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the International Academy of Business Disciplines (IABD), Houston, TX - U.S.A., 3–5 April, 2008.
  
2007
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Journals:
 
Bülent Aras and Rabia Karakaya Polat, "Turkey and the Middle East: Frontiers of the New Geographic Imagination", Australian Journal of International Affairs, 61 (4), pp. 471-488, 2007.
 
Şule Toktaş, “Citizenship and Migration from Turkey to Israel: A Comparative Study on Turkish Jews in Israel,” East European Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp: 117-148, 2007.    
 
Suat Kolukırık, Şule Toktaş, “Turkey’s Roma: Political Participation and Organization,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp: 761-777, 2007.
 
Bülent Aras, Şule Toktaş, "Al-Qaeda, 'War on Terror' and Turkey," Third World Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 1033-1050, 2007.
 
Books (or Book Chapters):
 
Rabia Karakaya Polat, "From Securitization to Desecuritization? The Impact of the EU Membership Process on Political Culture in Turkey" in Saradin, P. and Tunkrova, L. (eds.) Turecko a Evropska Unie: Ceska a Turecka Perspektiva (Turkey and the European Union:  Czech and Turkish Perspectives), Olomouc: Vydavatelstvi UP, 2007.
 
Şule Toktaş, “Turkish-EU Relations in the Framework of Protection of Minorities and Minority Rights: Challenges and Prospects.” In Nimrod Goren and Amikam Nachmani, eds., The Importance of Being European: Turkey, the EU and the Middle East. Jerusalem: The European Forum at the Hebrew University, pp: 26-31, 2007
 
Lawrence Pratchett, Melvin Wingfield and Rabia Karakaya Polat "Local Democracy Online: An Analysis of Local Government Websites in England and Wales" in Norrris, D. (ed), E-Government Research: Policy and Management, University of Maryland: Baltimore County, USA, 2007.
 
Mehmet E. Karaaslan, “Monopoly, Diversification through Adjacent Technologies, and Market Structure,” Contributions to Game Theory and Management, Vol.1 (forthcoming), winter 2007-2008.
 
International Referee Journals:
 
Şule Toktaş, “Civic Nationalism in Turkey: A Study on Celal Bayar’s Political Profile,” Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Vol. 6, No. 3&4, pp: 121-141, 2007.
 
Conference Presentations:
 
Şule Toktaş, "Elections, Political Parties and Democracy: A Reflection on
the Political History of Turkey." Paper presented at the comparative
politics workshop organized by the Middle East and Persian Gulf Research Group of the Center for Strategic Research, Tehran - Iran, December 17, 2007
 
Rabia Karakaya Polat, "Constitutional Dimension of the Parliamentary Elections in Turkey", Paper presented at Strategic Research Center, Tehran, December, 2007.
 
Rabia Karakaya  Polat, "Europeanization and Turkish Foreign Policy toward the Middle East: A process of desecuritization?", Paper presented at Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreál, Canada, November, 2007.
 
Şule Toktaş, Non-Muslim Minorities, International Migration and Culture:
Immigration from Turkey to Israel and Socio-Cultural Implications." Paper presented at the 4th Cultural Studies Symposium on "Migration and Culture," co-organized by Cultural Studies Association and Işık
University, Şile - Istanbul, September 15-17, 2007.
 
 
Bülent Aras, “Elections, Constitution and Political Process in Afghanistan,” Ninth International Security Conference, ARI Movement, Istanbul, 14-15 June 2007.
 
Bülent Aras “Dilemmas of Security: Some Notes on Security-Stability and Security-Democratization Dilemmas” Second Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security, Turkish National Police, Istanbul, 14-16 June 2007.
 
Rabia Karakaya Polat "Securitization and desecuritization: Assessing the impact of the EU membership process on political culture in Turkey", Paper presented at European Political Science Network Plenary Conference “Europe Integration and/or Fragmentation”, University of Ljubljana, June 2007.
 
Bülent Aras, “Gulf Cooperation Council,” Second Turkish-Asian Congress, TASAM, Istanbul, 25-27 May 2007.
 
Bülent Aras, “Fall of Arab Nationalism, Rise of Political Islam in the Arab World,” Conference on Turkish View on the Democratization Issues in North Africa and the Middle East, Kultur University, Department of International Relations, Istanbul, 18 May 2007
 
Bülent Aras, “Turkish Policy toward the Middle East,” Conference on Turkey and the Middle East, Beykent University, Center for Strategic Studies, Istanbul, 15 May 2007
 
Bülent Aras, “Turkey, EU and the Middle East,” Special Lecture on Turkey and the EU, Department of European Studies and Political Science, Palacky University, Olomouc, Chzek Republic, 2 May 2007.
 
Şule Toktaş, "Will to European Union vs. Will to Secularism: The Implications of Turkey's EU Reforms on Religious Freedom." Paper presented at the 48th International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, Chicago - U.S.A., February 27 - March 3 , 2007.
 
Aslı Tuncay-Celikel, "Current Dynamics in the Turkish Auto Industry", Paper presented at WZB (Social Science Research Center Berlin) Workshop, Berlin/Germany, January 24 2007.
 
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