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Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, Ph.D.
Director of the Honors Program
Professor of Political Science
Endowed Chair of International Studies
Director, International Studies Minor
Myer Hall
717-361-4749
dursuno@etown.edu
http://facultysites.etown.edu/dursuno/
Dr. Dursun-Ozkanca teaches courses on International Relations, European Union, the Middle East, Comparative Politics, Model United Nations, Political Violence and Terrorism. She is the editor of two books –
The European Union as an Actor in Security Sector Reform
(Routledge, 2014) and
External Interventions in Civil Wars
(co-edited with Stefan Wolff, Routledge, 2014) as well as a number of scholarly articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as
Foreign Policy Analysis,
Civil Wars,
European Security,
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding,
French Politics,
Perspectives on European Politics and Society, and
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Dr. Dursun-Ozkanca is the inaugural recipient of the Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence at Elizabethtown College (2015), and the recipient of the Richard Crocker Outstanding Service to Students Awards (2018, 2020). Her latest book,
Turkey–West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition
, is published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.
