Countries like China, North Korea, Pakistan, India, Russia, and Iran frequently test-launch missiles in public. Many experts are concerned with these tests for the sake of global security. Surprisingly, until now, no scientific studies explored whether a country’s more frequent

This study investigates the participation of China and Russia in the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM). In which policy initiatives have these two countries participated? In which initiatives have they taken the lead? Building on the club theory and international relations litera

“Today, AI is eating the World”. With the development of AI, we are witnessing a series of fundamental changes ranging from driverless vehicles to image processing; from natural language processing, to optimization problems; from robotic systems to “drones”; or from speech reco

Son yüzyıl içinde hemen hemen her toplumda doğurganlık hızları tarihsel olarak en düşük seviyelerine gelmiş oldular. Bu dönüşüm süreci içerisinde toplumlarda yaşlanma oranları da yine tarihsel olarak en yüksek seviyelerine ulaştılar. Söz konusu değişim modernleşme süreci ile b

The talk will take to its compass, the legal effects, and new legal questions deriving from the usage and the development of artificial intelligence technologies. For the quest for effective legal answers with this regard, some questions are vital to be asked: “Why do we need b

In societies that are horizontally fragmented between identity-based social groups, electoral competition is often motivated by the desire to use public office to advance group interests. In a research with Cem Oyvat and Hasan Tekgüç, we focus on the case of Türkiye to study gr

Burcu Meltem Arık’s presentation will present recent policy evaluations on governance and funding, students and access to education, teachers, the content of education, educational environments, and educational outcomes. Her talk will underline the recommendation that child wel

In this talk, a brief introduction to the game research domain will be presented with recent applications and challenges from the reinforcement learning domain and serious games—games that have ulterior motives rather than entertainment.

Estimating a counter-factual in which a treatment did not occur allows political science researchers to better understand the effect of an intervention. To date, the most prominent attempt in the literature has been the introduction of the synthetic control method. However, thi

Bu oturumda, Türkiye’nin Covid-19 dönemi ekonomi politikaları; ekonomi yönetiminin almış olduğu kararlar ve bu doğrultuda iktisadi ve kuramsal alanda çıkarılabilecek dersler güncel gelişmeler ışığında tartışılacak

Avrupa Birliği’nin üye ve aday ülkelere etkileri etraflıca çalışılmış olmakla beraber neredeyse on yıldır yaygın olarak yaşanılan Avrupalılaşma süreçlerinin kendilerinin Avrupalılaşmaktan uzaklaşmaya yol açma dinamikleri hakkındaki bilgimiz oldukça sınırlıdır. Bu çalışma Avrupa

More and more governments have started releasing their national strategies outlining priorities in adopting artificial intelligence (AI). This presentation focuses on the strategies adopted by more than a dozen countries between 2017 and 2019, reflecting on the dominant regulat