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Erik L. Knudsen joined the Department of International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University in 1998. Prior to that time, he was an associate professor in Switzerland at several institutions from 1986 to 1996 (The American College of Switzerland, Leysin Webster University, Geneva). In 1985, he received his PhD in Diplomatic History from the University of California, Santa Barbara, from where he also received his MA. His undergraduate work was primarily done at Indiana University where he studied Modern European and Middle Eastern History. While in Switzerland, Dr. Knudsen awarded a Fulbright-Hays scholarship for study in Pakistan (1988), received Faculty Development Funds for research in the Middle East (1990) and was given an Academic Service Award for Curriculum Development in International Political Studies (1987). His primary research emphasis is concerned with US policy in the Middle East and the political systems of Syria and Lebanon. He is currently working on a book dealing with modern Syria.
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COURSES OFFERED
2006-2007 |
• IR 310
• IR 302
• IR 436
• IR 404 |
The Quagmire of Northern Iraq: The Clash of United States, Turkish and Iraqi Kurdish Interests, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Summer 2003.
Syria, Turkey and the Changing Power Configurations in the Middle East: An Analysis of Political, Economic and Regional Differences in Tareq Ismael & Mustafa Aydin (eds) Turkey in the 21st Century: Changing Role in World Politics, Ashgate Publishing, 2003.
The Syrian-Israeli Political Impasse: A Study in Conflict, War and Mistrust, Journal of Diplomacy and Statecraft, 2001.
United States-Syrian Diplomatic Relations: The Downward Spiral of Mutual Political Hostility, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Summer 1996.
Hafiz al-Assad, Islamic Fundamentalism, and the Syrian State: An Analysis of Fundamentalist Opposition to the Bathist-Alawite Political/Military Complex, International Issues, April 1994.
Great Britain, Constantinople, and the Turkish Peace Treaty 1919-1922, US: Garland Press, 1987.
BA University of California, Santa Barbara & Indiana University
European/Middle Eastern History
MA University of California, Santa Barbara
European/Middle Eastern History
PhD 1985 University of California, Santa Barbara
Diplomatic History
United States Foreign Policy
International Diplomacy
Modern Middle East Issues
Department of International Relations
Eastern
Mediterranean University
Gazimagusa, KKTC,
Mersin 10, Turkey
Office: BE 163
Phone: +90 392 630 2058
E-mail: erik.knudsen@emu.edu.tr
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