Birol+Yesilada

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=Birol Yesilada=

Location (traveling from): Eugene Contact Information: (503) 725-3257; yesilada@pdx.edu ;http://web.pdx.edu/~yesilada/ Availability: **Will present according to Dawn** Cost: Conference Topic Emphasis: Background Information: Professor Birol Yesilada, PhD, is a Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Oregon State Univ., Portland., and the Contemporary Turkish Studies Endowed Chair. He earned a BA in neurobiology at the University of California at Berkeley (1977); an MA in political science at San Francisco State University (1979); and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Michigan, (1984). He teaches International political economy, European Union, Turkish politics, decision making and conflict management, and methodology. Yesilada's published works (books) include The Emerging European Union, Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites: Essays in Honor of Samuel J. Eldersveld, The Political and Socioeconomic Transformation of Turkey, and Agrarian Reform in Reverse: The Food Crisis in the Third World.