Prof. PINAR KÖKSAL

Academic Titles

2018 - Continues Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration
2005 - Continues Associate Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration

Managerial Experience

2010 - 2019 Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Eurasian Studies
2009 - 2018 Faculty Management Board Member

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration
2000 - 2010 Yönetim Kurulu Üyeliği

Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Social Sciences
2001 - 2007 Deputy Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration
2002 - 2005 Executive Board of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)

Executive Board of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)

Non Academic Experience

2005 - Continues Associate Professor (Title)

METU, Associate Professor (Title)
1998 - Continues Assistant Professor

METU, Assistant Professor

Supervised Theses

Turkey's Presidential Executive System: Reactions from the opposition parties

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

D.İŞÇİ(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
Rising Sinophobia in Kyrgyzstan: The Role of Political Corruption

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

D.Baş(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
The effect of the nomadic/settled contradiction on the transformation of the Kazakh identity: a reinterpretation

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

A.Özkan(Student), Postgraduate, 2020
The 2017 Catalan independence referendum: an interplay between political elites and civil society

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

S.Ergan(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Cultural diplomacy as a foreign policy tool of turkey: the case of Turksoy

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

S.Ezer(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Permanent neutrality policy of Turkmenistan: A comparative analysis of Turkmenbashi and Berdimuhammedov eras

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

G.DEMİREL(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Dynamics of the Russian foreign policy between 2000-2019: Nuclear energy as a foreign policy tool in the case of Turkey

Köksal P. (Advisor)

M.ÇAĞATAY(Student), Postgraduate, 2019
Problems of water management in Post-Soviet Central Asia

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

E.ŞAMLI(Student), Postgraduate, 2017
Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes: A comparison of stalinism and putinism

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor), PAMİR DİETRİCH A. (Co-Advisor)

O.YENGİL(Student), Postgraduate, 2016
An institutional approach to Turkey's relations with Central Asian countries

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

Ö.EREN(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Comparative analysis of domestic security issues of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the Post-Soviet era

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

A.TURGUT(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Muslim women in Central Asia: The impact of Soviet legacy

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

Ö.ÖZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Transition to democracy in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Leaders, citizens and perceptions of political legitimacy

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

D.MURZAEVA(Student), Doctorate, 2011
The rise of ethno-nationalism in Cyprus under the British Rule: 1878-1960

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

P.KADIOĞLU(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
Political leadership and democratic transition: the case of Askar Akaev in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

S.ÖRAZ(Student), Postgraduate, 2007
Poverty and corruption in Post-Soviet Russia: a comparison of Yeltsin and Putin eras

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

E.YILDIRIM(Student), Postgraduate, 2007
Nation building policies and their impact on the Russian minority in post-Soviet Kazakhstan

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

A.ÖZGÜL(Student), Postgraduate, 2006
The alevi community in Turkey after 1980: An evaluation of political group boundaries in the context of ethnicity theories

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

A.MURAT(Student), Postgraduate, 2006
Islamic fundamentalism in post- Soviet Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan:Real or imagined threat

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

N.BOTOIAROVA(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
Concepttualizing and understanding the contemporary popularity of conspiracy the ories: Re-thinking Karl Popper

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

T.NEFES(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
The rise of Hizb Ut-Tahrir in post soviet Uzbekistan

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

D.YAKIN(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
Failed democratic experience in Kyrgyzstan: 1990-2000

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

O.NİAZALİEV(Student), Postgraduate, 2004
The Tajik civil war: 1992-1997

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

S.SHAPOATOV(Student), Postgraduate, 2004
Stalin`s Great Purges and the penal system: The case of the Kazak intelligentsia

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

G.KURMANGALİYEVA(Student), Postgraduate, 2003
State and transition in emerping petroleum economies of the Caspian

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

M.BİLGİN(Student), Doctorate, 2003
Continuity and change in nationalist discourse in albania during national awakening communism and post-communism periods

KÖKSAL P. (Advisor)

E.SULSTAROVA(Student), Postgraduate, 2002

Academic and Administrative Experience

2018 - Continues Professor

2005 - Continues Associate Professor

2010 - 2019 Head of Department

2009 - 2018 Faculty Management Board Member

2000 - 2010 Yönetim Kurulu Üyeliği

2001 - 2007 Deputy Head of Department

2002 - 2005 Executive Board of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)

2005 - Continues Associate Professor (Title)

1998 - Continues Assistant Professor