Ayla Göl
Lecturer in International Politics
BA University of Ankara
MA University of Ankara
PhD London School of Economics and Political Science
Contact
Email: ayg@aber.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622856
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622709
Office: 2.10
Profile
Dr Ayla Göl is a lecturer in International Politics, with particular interest in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Dr Göl joined the Department in 2005, having started her academic career in 2003 as a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations, LSE. She is a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRCV) which is based in the Department. She was the inaugural John Vincent Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (ANU) in 2002. Dr Göl holds awards and scholarships from Australia, Turkey, the UK and the USA. She was most recently a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, November 2009 and March 2010.
Research
Her research interests focus on Islam, nationalism, identity politics, foreign policy analysis and Third World politics with particular reference to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Eurasia and the Caucasus, and Turkey.Dr Göl’s current research paper, ‘Ethnic Radicalisation: Kurdishness as Extremism in Hegemonic Discourses of Turkey’ has been presented and well received at international conferences at the University of Cambridge, University of Columbia, University of St. Andrew’s and University of Ulster. The outcome of her research is to be published in an edited volume: Islamic Radicalisation in Europe and the Middle East , George Joffe (ed.), (London: I.B. Taurus, 2010) Dr Göl has also contributed extensively to international conferences, seminars and talks in Azerbaijan, Australia, France, Finland, Northern Ireland, Morocco, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the USA. She is on the editorial board of Critical Studies of Terrorism, and has recently edited a special issue of this Journal on ‘Views From the “Others” of the War on Terror’, which was published in April 2010.
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate
IP39720 Religion and Politics in the Middle East
IP39520 Islam, Foreign Policy and the Developing World
IP39220 The Third World in International Politics
Masters
IPM8430 Islam and Modernity
IPM1330 Postcolonial Politics
PhD Supervision
Foreign Policy Analysis
Development Studies
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Religion and International Relations
Turkey-EU Relations
Staff Publications
Key Publications
‘Editor’s Introduction: Views from the ‘Others’ of the War on Terror’, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 3:1 (2010)
‘The identity of Turkey: Muslim and Secular’, Third World Quarterly, 30:4 (2009)
‘Democracy and Secularisation: Turkey’s Search for Identity? A Eurasian and Islamic Country’, Democracy, a Universal Value? R. Panossian (ed.) (Montreal: Rights and Democracy,2008); (Translated into French) ‘Démocratie Et Sécularisation: La Quête D’identité De La Turquie, Pays Eurasien Et Islamique,’ La Démocratie, Valeur Universelle?, R. Panossian (ed.) (Montréal: Droits et Démocratie, 2008)
‘Iraq and World Order: A Turkish Perspective,’ in The Iraq Crisis and World Order: Structural and Normative Challenges, R. Thakur and W. Pal Sing Sidhu, eds, (New York: United Nations University Press: 2006)
‘Imagining the Turkish Nation through “Othering” Armenians’,
Nations and Nationalism
11:1 (2005)Works in Progress
Islam, Identity and Foreign Policy: Turkey’s Engagement in the Middle East and the Caucasus (Single authored book: Under review)
‘Ethnic Radicalisation: Kurdish Identity as Extremism in Hegemonic Discourse of Turkey’ Islamic Radicalisation in Europe and the Middle East, George Joffe (ed.), (London: I.B. Taurus, 2010) (Forthcoming)
‘Islamic vs Secular Media in Turkey: Deliberative Democracy and the AKP’ in Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East (Islamic, Christian and Jewish Channels: Programs and Discourses), Khalid Hroub (ed.) (Hurst:Columbia University Press, 2010) (Forthcoming)
‘The Ottoman Empire and European Order: On the margins of Christendom’, Yongjin Zhang, Shogo Suzuki & Joel Quirk (eds.) Before the Arrival of the Anarchical Society: A Study of International Order, 1492-1792, (Under Review)
Constructing Knowledge: An Effective Use of Educational Technology for Teaching International Politics’ (Journal Article: Under review)