CONTRIBUTOR:

Belgin San-Akca

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Assitant Professor

DEPARTMENT:

International Relations

INSTITUTION:

Koç University

BIOGRAPHY:

Belgin San-Akca is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of International Relations at Koç University, Istanbul, and currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Political Science at University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. from University of California, Davis in 2009. Her research focuses on international security, transnational dimensions of domestic conflict, terrorism and non-state armed groups, and the Middle East conflict. She worked as a research assistant and consultant for various projects and taught classes at University of California, Davis and Berkeley. She is the recipient of a Marie Curie Reintegration Grant (2011-2015), the Turkish Academy of Sciences Award for Outstanding Young Scientists (2016-2018), and Science Academy Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2017-2018). She served as the treasurer of the Scientific Study of International Processes Section (SSIP) (2019-2021) of International Studies Association (ISA), an at-large representative at ISA’s Governing Council (2017-2018), and a member of the Correlates of War (COW) Project Advisory Board (2017-2019). Currently, she is an associate editor of Foreign Policy Analysis. Her publications appeared at highly reputed academic journals. Her book, States in Disguise: Causes of State Support for Rebel Groups, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.