Erol Kaymak

Dr Erol Kaymak is a Turkish Cypriot academic who since 1999 is the Chair of the Department of International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University in north Cyprus. Erol studied BA in Political Science at State University of New York at Buffalo in 1990, then he went on to complete a Masters degree in Political Science at Texas Tech University in 1994, and in 1999 he completed his PhD at Texas Tech University in Political Science. Dr Kaymak has published on the Cyprus problem and other issues of problematic political integration in journals including Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and Mediterranean Politics. Most recently he authored the northern Cyprus section of the CIVICUS Civil Society Index report for Cyprus that provides a comprehensive analysis of civil society’s structure, environment, values, and impact. Erol Kaymak is currently interested in the study of international phenomena from the vantage point of constructivism, a sociological view of international relations, with the intent of contributing to an understanding of the relationship between ethnic conflict, sovereignty, and the international system. To this end, Dr Kaymak has been researching the Cyprus problem (a case study of Europeanization processes).Erol Kaymak participated at the technical level negotiations of the Annan Plan for a comprehensive settlement to the Cyprus problem. He is a founding member of the Cyprus Academic Forum (CAF), which is actively working to enhance dialogue among academics on both sides of the island of Cyprus.

Recent publications

Kaymak E., Lacher H., "Transforming Identities:Beyond the Politics of Non-Settlement in North Cyprus", Mediterranean Politics, vol. 10, no. 2,2005.

Mayer L., Kaymak E., "Populism and the Triumph of the Politics of Identity: The Transformation of the Canadian Party System", Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 72 - 102, 2000

References

* [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Pn2i-XWXJyIJ:research.emu.edu.tr/catalogue_2007/isletme/irelations.pdf+Erol+Kaymak&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=26&gl=uk Eastern Mediterranean University Researchers List]
* [ http://www.eliamep.gr/eliamep/files/CyDS_programme_May12.pdf Belfast University Conference]
* [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/nhc/assets/pdfs/cypconf_prog.pdf La Trobe University Conference]
* [http://www.uni-erfurt.de/davokongress/ Erfurt University Conference]
* [http://cpc.emu.edu.tr/haber_oku.asp?haber=57 Cyprus Policy Center]