Current teaching responsibilities
- Black Sea Basin and Regionalism
- Nationalism and World Politics
- War, Identity, and Society
- Rising Powers and World Politics
- Wars, New Wars, and the Geopolitics of Warfare
Current Supervision
Currently supervising 5 PhD and 4 MA students at Karadeniz Technical University.
| Name | Thesis Title | Degree Subject | Degree type | Awarded date |
| Ceren Hakyemez | Yeniden Asya Girişimi Üzerinden Türkiye’nin Kıtacılık Söyleminin Analizi | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | (expected graduation: March 2026) |
| Fevzi Kirbasoglu | Avrupa Birliği’nin Ortak Dış ve Güvenlik Politikası Oluşturma Çabası Açısından Devletlerin Egemen Eşitliği İlkesinin Değerlendirilmesi | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | (expected graduation: September 2026) |
| Meltem Hasançebi | İklim Değişikliği Üzerine Partizan Perspektifler: Demokratlar ve Cumhuriyetçiler Arasındaki Politika Tercihleri ve Kamu Algılarını Konstrüktivist Perspektiften Analiz Etmek | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | (expected graduation: September 2027) |
| Hakan Küçük | Orta Büyüklükteki Güçlerin Grand Stratejileri: Türkiye, Endonezya ve Suudi Arabistan’ın Karşılaştırmalı Analizi | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | (expected graduation: June 2028) |
| Alperen Türkmen | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | (expected graduation: June 2031) | |
| Betül Çapar | Zulüm Sonrası Kadınların İlerlemesinin Önündeki Engeller: Şili, Güney Afrika ve Irak Karşılaştırması | Women and Family Studies | Master of Arts | (expected graduation: September 2026) |
| Şeyma Keleş | Sosyal Hizmet Çalışanlarının ve Toplumun Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği ile İlgili Duyarlılığı | Women and Family Studies | Master of Arts | (expected graduation: September 2026) |
| Muhammed Lütfü Osmanoğlu | Dış Politikada Diaspora Diplomasisi: Almanya’daki Türk Diasporası | International Relations | Master of Arts | (expected graduation: September 2026) |
| Yelyzaveta Yurchenko | Small State, Significant Impact: Assessing Vietnam’s Role in the Development of ASEAN’s Political Agenda and Institutional Reform | International Relations | Master of Arts | (expected graduation: June 2028) |
Previous Supervision
Successfully supervised 7 PhD and 6 MA students at Karadeniz Technical University.
| Name | Thesis Title | Degree Subject | Degree type | Awarded date |
| Yusuf Alper Alkış | Rising Powers’ Emergence in Contested Cyberspace: The Case of MIKTA | International Relations | Master of Arts | February 2026 |
| Betül Tiryaki | Gender and Foreign Policy: A Comparative Analysis of the Gendered Multilevel Games Concept in World Order Transformation | Women and Family Studies | Master of Arts | September 2025 |
| Iryna Tkachuk | Small States and Diasporas: Ukrainian and Armenian Approaches of Diaspora | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | April 2025 |
| Dilek Karadeniz |
Çin-Hindistan Rekabeti Bağlamında Güvenlik İkilemi’nin Yeniden Doğuşu (The Revival of the Security Dilemma in the Context of Sino-Indian Rivalry) | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | November 2024 |
| Ekrem Ok |
Transformation of Humanitarian Intervention: A Comparative Perspective, 1945-2020 | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | November 2024 |
| Nurhan Sağlam |
İktidardaki Popülist Partilerin Kadın Haklarına ve Kadınların Sosyal ve Siyasal Katılımlarına Etkisi: Ampirik Bir Analiz | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | June 2024 |
| Zehra Aksu |
Yeni Bir Bölgeselcilik Yaklaşımı Olarak Enerji Bölgeselciliği: Şanghay İşbirliği Örgütü ve Avrasya Ekonomik Birliği | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | January 2023 |
| Hulya Ercan Kinik | Yükselen Güçlerin Uluslararası Sisteme Entegrasyonu: Türkiye Örneği (Rising Powers’ Integration into the International System: The Case of Türkiye) | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | November 2022 |
| Mohammed Hashiru | Hydropolitics of the River Nile: Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia in Contention | International Relations | Doctor of Philosophy | June 2022 |
| Ruhullah Afshar | The Impact of Türkiye’s Role As A Rising Power in the Afghanistan Peacebuilding Process | International Relations | Master of Arts | October 2022 |
| Sedanur Yildiz | Brexit and the Small States in the EU: the Case of Slovakia | International Relations | Master of Arts | July 2019 |
| Fevzi Kirbasoglu | Avrupa Birliği’nin Yükselen Güçlere Yönelik Politikası: Türkiye Örneği (The EU’s Response to Rising Powers: The case of Turkey) | International Relations | Master of Arts | July 2019 |
| Idrissa Tamba Bindi | Liberal Peace and Peacebuilding: The Case of Sierra Leone | International Relations | Master of Arts | February 2017 |