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Mehmet
Tezcan
Mehmet Y. Tezcan received his Bachelor of Science in International Relations (Honors) from Middle East Technical University (METU) in June 2001 and his Masters in European Integration & Development (magna cum laude) from Free University of Brussels (VUB) in July 2002. He completed the doctoral training program (magna cum laude) in the Department of Political Science at VUB in 2004. He is at present PhD candidate at the same department. He has been Researcher at the IES since April 2005. His current research project focuses on the EU foreign and security policy system in the making. Mehmet Y. Tezcan previously worked in the Department of Political Science at VUB in 2004-2005 as part-time researcher, at the Center for Studies on Turkey (ZfT) in Essen in 2001 as researcher, in the Representation of European Commission to Turkey in Ankara in 2000 as intern, and in the Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade of Turkish Prime Ministry in Ankara in 1999 as intern. He is also member to British International Studies Association (BISA) since 2004; affiliate member to the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group (ECCO) of VUB since 2005; alumni of Forum Europe Foreign and Security Policy, German Council for Foreign Affairs (DGAP) since 2003; participant in the 1st Garnet PhD school at ULB, Belgium in December 2005 and in the Spring School in Complexity Science at University of Southampton in April 2006.
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Researcher project EU Foreign and Security Policy
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Activities, publications
Theories of International Relations, Global Political Economy, Complex Systems (Dissipative Structures in particular), Philosophy of and Methodology in Social Science (Critical Realism in particular), Foreign Policy Analysis.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. (co-authored with Bruno Turnheim) (2009) Complex governance to cope with global environmental risk: An assessment of the UNFCCC, in Science and Engineering Ethics, vol.15(3), December 2009 Special Issue, pp.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. (2006) What can Critical Realism offer us as a conceptual tool in our analysis of society? in Concepts & Methods, vol. 2(1) pp. 3-7 http://www.concepts-methods.org/newsletters/20060301_33_C&M%20Newsletter%202006%201.pdf
Book Chapters & Book Reviews & Other Articles
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. (2004) Problematizing the Ontology of Intergovernmentalism: An ‘English School’ Perspective in Stivachtis, Yiannis (ed.) International Governance and International Security: Issues and Perspectives, Athens: ATINER, pp. 23-42.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. (2001) Cyprus and the European Union: New chances for solving an old conflict? (Book Review) in Zeitschrift für Türkeistudien (ZfTS) 14. Jahrgang, Heft 1+2
Conference Papers
Tezcan, Mehmet Y., Scientific explanations through (causal) mechanisms: what, why and how?, the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) Annual Conference, London, the UK, 11-13 July 2008.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y., An emergent governance mechanism for European trade and investment in arms? The Political Economy of the European military-industrial complex in the making 1997-2007, the GARNET Conference ‘The European Union in International Affairs’, Egmont Palace, Brussels, 24-26 April 2008.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. (co-authored with Bruno Turnheim), An assessment of the International Framework Convention on Climate Change as a complex governance structure to cope with global environmental risk, Garnet JERP 5.3.1 Workshop on Risk and Responsibility: Theoretical and Normative Issues of Environmental Governance, Florence, Italy, 18-19 April 2008.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y., The Political Economy of the European Military-Industrial Complex in the Making 1997-2007, the 49th International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA, 26-29 March 2008.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. A complex systems critique to mainstream IR theory: A case study of foreign policy integration in Europe as a complex system, The BISA workshop IR after postpositivism: Still a Social Science?, London, United Kingdom, 6 October 2007.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. The potential of and limits to the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership concerning the security of the EU’s energy supply: A Political Economy Analysis, the UACES Workshop Security of Energy Supply in the New Europe: A Challenge for the European Neighbourhood Policy, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 19-20 September 2007.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. The political economy of EU foreign policy: the impact of corporate integration on foreign policy integration in Europe since the 1980s, ECPR SGIR Sixth Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Turin, Italy, 12-15 September 2007.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. The EU’s foreign economic policy: whose policy and how just is it?, the 2007 ISA Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 28 February-3 March 2007.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. The Political Economy of the Law: A Case-Study of the EU’s Foreign Economic Policy towards Central and Eastern Europe 1975-2004, the Garnet JERP 522 Workshops on European Union, Global Governance, Sovereignty and Law, Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 January 2007; Leiden, The Netherlands, 27-28 June 2007.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. The Geopolitics of the East-West Energy Corridor and the Viability of EU-Turkey Partnership for Security of Energy Supply, the 9th New Faces Conference Security in a Globalized World: Towards Regional Cooperation and Strategic Partnership, Oslo, Norway, 20-22 October 2006.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. 'American' IR theory: A complex adaptive systems critique, the 1st ECPR Graduate Conference, Essex, United Kingdom, 7-9 September 2006. http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/graduateconference/
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. The EU Foreign Policy Governance As A Complex Adaptive System, International Conference on Complex Systems 2006 (ICCS06), Boston, Massachussetts, USA, 25-30 June 2006. http://necsi.org/community/wiki/index.php/ICCS06/230
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. The Political Economy of the EU’s security actorness, the Fifth METU Conference on International Relations, Ankara, Turkey, 15-17 June 2006.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. How Retroduction Reconnects International Relations to History: Learning from the Classical Approach and Critical Realism, the 2006 ISA Annual Convention, San Diego, California, USA, 22-25 March 2006. http://64.112.226.70/index.php?cmd=isa06&id=
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. European Foreign Policy Cooperation: Modeling the complex nature and modus operandi of the EPC/CFSP, the Complexity, Science and Society Conference, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 11-14 September 2005. http://www.liv.ac.uk/ccr/2005_conf/index.htm
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. (co-authored with Gustaaf Geeraerts) Understanding and Explaining International Relations: Critical Realist Modeling, the First Global International Studies Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 24-27 August 2005. http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/wisc/proposals.aspx
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. An Emergenist Critique of the Social Constructivist Approach to Regional Integration in Europe, the Fourth METU Conference on International Relations, Ankara, Turkey, 30 June-2 July 2005.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. On causality and generalization in International Relations: Critical Realist answers to the positivist dilemmas of quantitative and qualitative research methods, the third conference of Belgian Political Science Association (French-speaking), University of Liege, Belgium, 29-30 April 2005. http://www.absp.spri.ucl.ac.be/documents/TEZCAN_liegepaper.doc
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. The Contributions of the English School of the International Relations Theory to Foreign Policy Analysis: Transformational Social Ontology in the Three Traditions Approach and Methodological Pluralism, ECPR 2005 joint sessions of workshops, Granada, Spain, 14-19 April 2005. http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/paperarchive/granada.aspx
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. The Obsolescence of Balance of Power As A Primary Institution of Transatlantic International Society, the Third METU Conference on International Relations, Ankara, Turkey, 24-26 May 2004.
Seminar & Guest Lecture Papers
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. A complex systems critique to mainstream IR theory: A case study of foreign policy integration in Europe as a complex system, the third Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group (ECCO) seminar series program, VUB, Brussels, 28 March 2007.
Geeraerts, Gustaaf and Mehmet Y. Tezcan Complexity Theory and European Union Foreign Policy, the second Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group (ECCO) seminar series, VUB, Brussels, 2 December 2005.
Tezcan, Mehmet Y. On causality and generalization in International Relations: Critical Realist answers to the positivist dilemmas of quantitative and qualitative research methods, Guest lecture at the Fall Staff Seminar Series, The Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR) of University of Amsterdam (UvA), 26 October 2005.
