mercan.sezgin@gmail.com 

Areas of Expertise

Political, economic, social and military integration in Europe; Integration theories; Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy of the EU; The EU enlargement; Global and Regional policies of the EU; Separatist movements in the EU; Relations between Turkey and the EU.

Biography

He is an Advisor for the Institute  of Turkey in the Twenty-First Century. He was also editor of the Journal of Twenty First Century. He completed Ph.D. degree in the Department of European Union Studies in the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. He completed an MS program in European Union from Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2007. He graduated from the Political Science and International Relations Department of Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences in Baskent University in 2004. He coordinated lots of EU granted social projects. He is the author of several journal articles which were published in Turkish Studies, the Academic Journal of the Middle East, Journal of Defense Sciences and Insight Turkey.