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Abdullah Bal
PhD Student
Department of Political Science
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS B3H 4H6
Canada
E-mail: ab615713@dal.ca
Abdullah Bal graduated from the International Relations Department of Ankara University, Cebeci, Ankara, Turkey (1990) and received his MA degree from the same University (2000). Between 1997-2006, he worked as a research assistant and instructor in the International Relations Department of Adnan Menderes University, Nazilli, Aydin, Turkey. In 2006, he taught a course on EU-Turkey relations. He presented several conference papers: “In Search of Dialogue among the Plural Theories of IR: Introducing the Heisenbergian Concept of Closed Theory” at 1st Global International Studies Conference, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey (2005) and “Discovering or Inventing International Relations?” at 44th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in Portland, Oregon (2003).
Abdullah Bal is a first year doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University. For the doctoral thesis, he is planning to work on the European Union-Turkey Relations, specifically the impact of the EU on recent political restructuring in Turkey to comply with the political criteria for Union membership.