Dr. T. Bahcheli

Office DL203 Extension 4460 E-mail bahcheli@uwo.ca

Tozun Bahcheli is a professor of political science at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. Bahcheli holds a B.A./M.A. in political science from the University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics. He has written widely on Turkish foreign policy issues, Greek-Turkish relations and Cypriot politics. During 1995-1996 he was senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Greek-Turkish Relations Since 1955 (Westview Press, 1990) and co-editor of De Facto States: The Quest for Sovereignty (Routledge, 2004).

Recent Publications:

Book:
De Facto States: the Quest for Sovereignty (co-edited with B. Bartmann and H. Srebrnik), London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Articles and book chapters:
“Turkish Cypriots, the EU Option, and Resolving Ethnic Conflict in Cyprus,” in Andreas Thephanous, Nicos Peristianis, Andreas Iannou (eds.) Cyprus and the European Union, Nicosia: Intercollege Press, 1999.

“The Potential for Conflicts in Greek-Turkish Relations,” in Erich Reiter (ed.) Jahrbuch fur internationale Sicherheitspolitik 2000, Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Mittler, 2000.

“Turkish Policy Towards Greece,” in Alan Makovsky and Sabri Sayari (eds.), Turkey’s New World: Changing Dynamics in Turkish Foreign Policy, Washington, DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2000.

“Searching for a Cyprus Settlement: Considering Options for Creating a Federation, a Confederation, or Two Independent States,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 30:1-2 (Winter/Spring) 2000.

“Turkey’s Cyprus Challenge: Preserving the Gains of 1974,” in Dimitris Keridis and Dimitris Triantafyllou (eds.), Greek-Turkish Relations, Brasseys, 2001.

“The Lure of Economic Prosperity vs. Ethnonationalism: Turkish Cypriots, the EU Option and Resolving Ethnic Conflict in Cyprus,” in John McGarry and Michael Keating (eds.) Minority Nationalism, Globalization and European Integration, Oxford University Press, 2001.

“Turkish-Greek Approaches to Resolving the Aegean Disputes,” in Bayram Ozturk and Nesrin Algan (eds.), Problems of Regional Seas 2001, Turkish Marine Research Foundation, Istanbul, 2001.

“Cycles of Tension and Rapprochement; Prospects for Turkey’s Relations with Greece” in Mustafa Aydin & Tareq Ismael (eds). Turkish Foreign Policy in the 21st Century, Ashgate Publishing, 2003.

“Turkey, the Cyprus Issue and the European Union”, Hellenic Studies, 11:2 (Autumn 2003).

“Turning a New Page in Turkey’s Relations with Greece? The Challenge of Reconciling Vital Interests”, in Mustafa Aydin & Costas Ifantis, (eds.) New Perspectives in Greek-Turkish Relations, Frank Cass, 2003.

“Saddled with a Divided Cyprus: An EU Dilemma”, The International Spectator, XXXIX:3, July-September 2004.

“Saying Yes to EU Accession: Explaining the Turkish Cypriot Referendum Outcome”, The Cyprus Review, 16:2, Fall 2004.

“Power-Sharing for Cyprus (Again): EU Accession and the Prospects for Reunification” (with Sid Noel), in Sid Noel (ed.) From Power Sharing to Democracy: Post-conflict Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies, McGill-Queens University Press, 2005.

“Imposed and Proposed Federations: Issues of Self-Determination and Constitutional Design in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Sri Lanka and Iraq” (with Sid Noel), The Cyprus Review, Vol. 17: 1, Spring 2005.

“Turkey’s Quest for EU membership and the Cyprus Problem” in Joseph S. Joseph (ed.) Turkey and the European Union: Internal Dynamics and External Challenges, Palgrave, 2006.