Mail: volkan.ipek@yeditepe.edu.trDoor: İİBF 402Time: Full TimeAkademikBiographyPHD: Bilkent University, International Relations (2015) BA: Bilkent University, International Relations (2004) PublicationsBook Volkan İpek ve Ebru İlter Akarçay (2020) To Democratize or Not? Trials and Tribulations in the Postcolonial World, with Ebru İlter Akarcay, Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-5355-2 Volkan İpek, İsmail Ermağan,Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu (2021) Dünya Siyasetinde Afrika 6, Nobel Yayınları https://www.dr.com.tr/Kitap/Dunya-Siyasetinde-Afrika-6/Kolektif/Ders-Sinav-Kitaplari/Universite-Ders-Kitaplari/Sosyal-Bilimler/urunno=0001905941001 Volkan İpek (2020) North Africa, Colonialism and the EU. Palgrave Macmillan: New York https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030295882 Book Chapters Volkan İpek, Sinemden Oylumlu, Ayşe Betül Nuhoğlu (2019) “Immigration of African Football to Turkey: Pass the Ball and I Score” in Bayındır G.İpek,I, Önel,E.(edt) Refugee Crises and Migration Policies London: Lexington Books https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793602084/Refugee-Crises-and-Migration-Policies-From-Local-to-Global Volkan İpek (2017) “Turkish Foreign Policy on Sub-Saharan Africa,” in Ercan, P (edt) Turkish Foreign Policy:International Relations, Legality and Global Reach New York: Palgrave Macmillanhttps://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319504506 Turkey-Morocco Relations, with Dr. İsmail Ermağan, Handbook of Research on Sociopolitical Factors Impacting Economic Growth in Islamic Nations, IGI Publications, July 2017. Turkish Foreign Policy on Sub-Saharan Africa, Turkish Foreign Policy: International Relations, Legality and Global Reach, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2017. Political culture and the Democratic Party in the regional rise of Botswana, Africa in World Politics Vol.3: Nobel Yayınevi, January 2017, İstanbul, Turkey. A statist miracle in Sub-Saharan Africa: The post 1994 Rwandan Economy, Africa in World Politics Vol:2, Nobel Yayınevi, December 2015, İstanbul, Turkey. Tuareg Crisis in Mali, Africa in World Politics Vol:1, Nobel Yayınevi, October 2014, İstanbul, Turkey. The Postcolonial Theory, with Dr. Çağlar Ayman, International Relations Theories, İletişim Yayınları, October 2014, İstanbul, Turkey. Articles Mehtap Kaçar, Volkan İpek, Elif Vatanoğlu-Lutz (2020) The 2014 Ebola Outbreak from a multidisciplinary perspective and the role of Turkey in the fight against this outbreak, Klimik, 33: 111-21 https://www.klimikdergisi.org/en/2021/01/05/the-2014-ebola-outbreak-from-a-multidisciplinary-perspective-and-the-role-of-turkey-in-the-fight-against-this-outbreak/ Volkan İpek, Gulnara Dadayabeva, Aigul Adibayeva (2021) Kazakhstan in Africa: An Economic Diplomacy within Distant Neighborhood Policy, SOBIAD, 10(2):1251-73 https://app.trdizin.gov.tr/publication/paper/detail/TkRNeU1qTXhNUT09 Volkan İpek (2021):Revisiting Liberal peacebilding:BRICS and Turkey in Somalia, Perceptions 26(1),152-76 https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/perception/issue/64385/977891 Volkan İpek (2020) “La Politica Estera Della Turchia in Africa: I Casi del Sudan e della Somalia”, Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale Observatoria Turchia,7: 1-10 https://www.cespi.it/it/ricerche/la-politica-estera-della-turchia-africa-i-casi-del-sudan-della-somalia Volkan İpek ve Jack Kalpakian (2020) “Secularism in Morocco”, ENC Analysis 3-17 http://www.encouncil.org/ourwork/enc-analysis-secularism-morocco/ Volkan İpek ve Selin Türkeş Kılıç (2019) “European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership”, Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 6: 2, 43-70 https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tocd/issue/48810/607538Volkan İpek ve Selin Türkeş Kılıç (2019) “European Turkey and European Morocco: Two Identity Construction cases in the path to the EEC membership”, Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 6: 2, 43-70 https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tocd/issue/48810/607538 Volkan İpek (2019) “Third World Presidencies in the Gambia, Zimbabwe and Togo: The Rule of Jammeh, Mugabe and the Eyadémas”, Akademik Hassasiyetler , 6 :11, 315-30 https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/akademik-hassasiyetler/issue/45496/571769 The 2011 Landing of Turkey in Somalia: A State to People Aspect of Turkish Foreign Policy towards Sub-Saharan Africa. (First Draft of “The 2011 Landing of Turkey in Somalia: A successful attempt of a successful plan”), European Scientific Journal, Special Edition, May 2014 Special Edition (EBSCO Index). Turkey’s foreign policy implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Post International Approach, with Dr. Gonca Biltekin, New Perspectives on Turkey, Boğaziçi University, Volume 49, Fall 2013 (SSCI). Kenya’s modeling of Turkey: How Turkey impacts Sub-Saharan Africa, with Dr. Asena Ozer Boztas, Journal of Social Sciences,Vol.22, Spring 2012 (Ulakbim Index). The Turkish–Armenian Rapprochement Processes: A Case Study Approach, with Dr. Jack Kalpakian, Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES), Vol.20, Issue 2, Spring 2012 (Index Islamicus). Turkey’s Cyprus Issue in the context of Europeanization, with Dr. Petek Karatekelioglu, Journal of Cyprus Studies, Spring 2009 (CSI, ASSIA Indexes). Supporting Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş: Polarization among the three greatest, Gazi Üniversitesi İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi, Kış-Bahar 2008, Sayı:26, s.441-450 (Ulakbim Index), in Turkish. Other The May 2017 Elections in Algeria, Ortadoğu Analiz, Vol.9, No:80, July-August 2017 (in Turkish). The 2017 Sub-Saharan Africa Visits of Turkish President Erdogan, Ortadoğu Analiz, Vol:9, No:79, May-June 2017 (in Turkish). The October 2016 Elections and thereafter in Morocco, Ortadoğu Analiz, Vol:9, No: 78, March-April 2017. The 2016 Sub-Saharan Africa visits of Turkish President Erdogan, Ortadoğu Analiz, Vol.8, No:75, July-August 2016. The impact of the Arab Spring on Turkish-Libyan Economic Relations, Ortadoğu Analiz, Vol.8, No:74, May-June 2016. The Changing Geopolitics in Western Sahara after the Arab Spring and Morocco, Ortadoğu Analiz, No:72, January-February 2016. Half time at four, full time at five? The Algerian Presidential Elections of April 2014, Ortadoğu Analiz, Vol: 6, No:62, May-June 2014.