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Kemalist Eurasianism:
An Emerging Geopolitical Discourse in Turkey
by
Dr. Emel Akçali, University of Birmingham
Chaired by Dr. Marco Antonsich
University of Birmingham

Organised by:
Association for Cypriot, Greek & Turkish Affairs
http://www.acgta.org/events_online.htm

Friday 5th December 2008
London School of Economics,
European Insrtitute,
Canada Blanch Room, Cowdray House
Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE


Emel Akcali is an Honorary Research Fellow
(and from October 2008 Visiting Lecturer)
at the Political Science Department of
Birmingham University. She received her PhD
in February 2007 at the Institute of Geography,
Paris IV, Sorbonne, France, with a thesis on the
political geography of the Cyprus conflict. At the
moment, she is working on the relationship
between political economy and the development
of geopolitical discourses, on the use of mental
map methodology in ethno-territorial conflict
studies, and on ethno-territorial conflict
resolution mechanisms in multicultural societies.
She is the author of: 'Eurasianism in
Turkey: the New Geopolitics of Kemalism',
Geopolitics, 2007 (with M. Perinçek;
forthcoming); Other Cypriots and Their Cyprus
Questions, The Cyprus Review, vol. 19, n. 2, pp.
57-82; 'The European Union's Competency in
Conflict Resolution: The Cases of Bosnia,
Macedonia (FYROM) and Cyprus', in Diez, T. and
Tocci, N. (eds.) Cyprus: A Conflict at the
Crossroads (Manchester: Manchester University
Press, forthcoming). 'Turkey's Harmonisation
with EU Norms: Progress or Regress?', in
Sperling, J. and Papacosmas V. (eds.) Turkey
and Europe: High Stakes, Uncertain Prospects
(Nicosia: University of Nicosia Press, 2008).

The above bio is from a forthcoming project detailed at:

http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/russian
/nationalism/eurasiaparticipants.htm