Birol Yesilada, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Contemporary Turkish Studies Endowed Chair

Contact Information
Website: http://web.pdx.edu/%7Eyesilada
Email: yesilada@pdx.edu
Office: 650H URBN
Telephone: 503 725 3257
Fax: 503 725 8444

Background
Professor Yesilada received his BA in neurobiology from University of California at Berkeley (1977); his M.A. in political science from San Francisco State University (1979); and his Ph.D. in political science from University of Michigan, (1984).

Research Focus
Research and teaching interests include: Power Transition Theory, European Union, Turkish politics, Political Economy, World Values Survey (Cyprus), decision making and forecasting, and methodology.

Community Engagements/Service
Local & State:
Coordinator of the University Scholar scholarships for District 5100 of Rotary International.
New Generations (Youth Programs) Committee chair for District 5100 of Rotary International.
Past-president (2006-07) of the Rotary Club of Tigard, Oregon.

National:
Federal Government: Invited policy consultant at the National Intelligence Council, the U.S. State Department, the Foreign Affairs Training Center of the Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. Defense Department. Also invited by the White House to take part in a panel study at the RAND Corporation on "Politics and Islam in the New Constitution of Afghanistan." The White House presented the final document to the Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Private Sector: Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the RAND Corporation, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Nathan Associates, Barclays Capital, the World Bank.
Academic Associate of the Atlantic Council.

Service:
Member of the Board, Transresearch Consortium
Director/coordinator, Public Administration and Policy Doctoral Program, Portland State University (2001-2007)
Director, Center for Turkish Studies, Portland State University (1999-present)
PI-World Values Survey for Cyprus
Associate Member of the Board of Directors, Institute of Turkish Studies, Georgetown University (1995-2008)
Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Studies Perspectives (2004- 2009)
Associate editor, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin (2003- 2006)
Editorial Review Board, International Studies Review
Editorial Review Board, International Political Sociology
Editorial Review Board, Foreign Policy Analysis
Editorial Review Board, International Studies Quarterly
Editorial Review Board, Istanbul Stock Exchange Research Publications.

International:
Consultant during the peace talks in Cyprus (2002-2004). Also served as advisor to the US Ambassador to Cyprus Donald Bandler between 2000 - 2003.

Selected Publications & Awards
The Emerging European Union (with David M. Wood). New York: Longman, 1996 ,
2001, 2003, and 2007 4th ed. (fifth edition forthcoming 2009)

Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites: Essays in Honor of Samuel J.
Eldersveld. ed. by Birol A. Yesilada. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1999.

The Political and Socioeconomic Transformation of Turkey, ed. by Atila Eralp,
Muharrem Tünay, and Birol Yesilada. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993.

Agrarian Reform in Reverse: The Food Crisis in the Third World, ed. by Birol Yesilada,
Charles Brockett, and Bruce Drury. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987.

"Competition among Giants: A Look at How Future Enlargement of the European Union Could Affect Global Power Transition," (with Brian Efird and Peter Noordijk), International Studies Review Vol. 8, no. 4 (December 2006):607-622.

"The Political Future of Afghanistan and Its Implications for U.S. Policy" (with Jacek
Kugler and Brian Efird), Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 20, no. 1
(Spring 2003):43-72.

"Assessing Research on Turkish Foreign Policy and International Political Economy," in Turkish Studies in the United States, Donald Quataert and Sabri Sayari eds., (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), pp. 59-74.

"Negotiating a Resolution to the Cyprus Problem: Is Potential EU Membership a
Blessing or a Curse?" (with Ahmet Sözen) International Negotiation Journal
Vol. 7, no. 2 (2002):261-85

"The Virtue Party," Turkish Studies (Spring, 2002):62-81.

"Turkey's Candidacy to Join the European Union," The Middle East Journal Vol 56, no.
1 (Winter 2002):94-112.

"Turkey and the United States," In Dangerous Neighborhood: Aspects of Turkey's Foreign Relations, ed., Michael Radu (Transaction Books, 2002)

"Realignment and Party Adaptation: The Case of Refah & Fazilet Parties," In Politics, Parties and Elections in Turkey, eds. Sabri Sayari and Yilmaz Esmer (Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2002).

"The Mediterranean Challenge," in The Expanding European Union: Past, Present and Future, eds. John Redmond and Glenda G. Rosenthal (Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 1998).

"Prospects for Turkey's Membership in the European Community," International Journal of Turkish Studies Vol. 6, no 1&2 (Winter 1996):37-60.

Awards:
Fulbright fellowship.

Grant from the Joint Committee on the Middle East of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.

William T. Kemper Fellowship in Teaching Excellence (University of Missouri).

Presidential citation, Rotary International.