TÜBA Member Prof. Yurdusev Elected as President of GID-EMAN
TÜBA Full Member Prof. Ahmet Nuri Yurdusev was elected President of GID-EMAN at the General Assembly of the Euro-Mediterranean Academic Network (GID-EMAN) held in Bar, Montenegro.
At the GID-EMAN Symposium organized by The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (CANU) in Bar, Montenegro on October 3-4, 2024 with the title “Mediterranean Cultures in Dialogue”, Academy Full Members Prof. Ahmet Nuri Yurdusev, Prof. Mehmet Bulut, Prof. Serap Güneş and Prof. Mehmet Emin Aydın made presentations. At the general assembly held after the symposium, Prof. Yurdusev, Vice President of EMAN and President of AASSA, who ran for the presidency upon the recommendation of CANU, was unanimously elected president for the next three-year term with the support of TÜBA. Prof. Viorel Panaite, researcher at the Institute of Southeast European Studies of the Romanian Academy, was elected vice president.
Prof. Yurdusev stated that he was very pleased to be unanimously elected as the president of EMAN, which is composed of the science academies of the Mediterranean coastal countries, with the support of TÜBA, and said that he plans to manage a much more effective presidency process by increasing the activities of EMAN during his term of office. Within this framework, he stated that he will work for the expansion of EMAN from coastal countries to the greater Mediterranean basin.
Who is Prof. Ahmet Nuri Yurdusev?
He studied at METU and the University of Leicester (UK). He was a visiting professor at Oxford University (UK) and Kansai University (Japan). His main areas of interest are international relations theory, European identity and Ottoman diplomacy. In 2012, he was elected as a Full Member of TÜBA and in December of the same year he was elected as a Member of the Academy Council. Yurdusev was a member of the Council until the end of December 2018 and served as Vice President of TÜBA between 2015 and 2018. Author of numerous conference papers, book chapters and journal articles in English and Turkish, Yurdusev's works have also been published in Japanese and Spanish. He wrote International Relations and the Philosophy of History: A Civilizational Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and edited Ottoman Diplomacy: Conventional or Unconventional? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Economia Exterior (Spain), Nomos (Japan), Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Zeitschrift für Türkeistudien are some of the academic journals in which his articles have been published.
In 2012, Prof. Yurdusev was elected as a Fellow of TÜBA, a Member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, President-Elect of the Association of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies (AASSA) and continues to work as a faculty member at METU Department of International Relations.
