Kemal Kirişci is professor

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 at the Department of Political Science

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 and International Relations

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 at Boğaziçi University

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, Istanbul

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. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair

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 in European Integration and is also the director of the Center for European Studies at the University. He has previously taught at universities in Great Britain

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, Switzerland

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, and the United States

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. Kirişci received his Ph.D.

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 at City University

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 in London

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 in 1986. He is currently a guest lecturer at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and will be a fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D.C., during the 2009-2010 academic school year.

Books

• Turkey In World Politics: An Emerging Multi-Regional Power (co-edited with B. Rubin) (Lynne Reinner, Boulder, 2001)
• The Political Economy of Cooperation in the Middle East (co-authored) (Routledge
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  , London, 1998)

Book chapters

• "Turkish asylum policy and human rights: Adjusting to international norms and EU accession requirements" in Z. Kabasakal-Arat (ed.) Human Rights Policies and Prospects in Turkey (University of Pennsylvania Press
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  , 2007)
• "National Identity, Asylum and Immigration: EU as a vehicle of 'post-national' transformation in Turkey" in Hans-Lukas Kieser (ed.) Turkey: Nationalism, Post-Nationalism and the European Community (I.B. Taurus, 2006)
• "The Hague Programme: Challenges of Turkish pre-accession in the area of asylum, migration and border control" in J. W. de Zwaan and F. A. Goudappel (eds.) Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union (Asser Press, The Hague, 2006)

Articles

• "Turkey: A country of transition from Emigration to Immigration" Mediterranean Politics Vol. 12, No. 1 (March 2007)
• (eds. together with R. Erzan) "Introduction" and "Conclusion" to the Special Issue of Turkish Studies on "Determinants of Immigration and Integration of Turkish Immigrants in the European Union" Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 2006)
• "A friendlier Schengen visa system as a tool of 'soft power': The experience of Turkey" European Journal of Migration and Law Vol. 7, No. 4, (2005)