The unprecedented increase in social media use and the large-scale collection of information poses new threats as well as bringing new opportunities. Modeling and managing complex interactive systems require mining of social and technological signals for new insights into human

GLODEM proudly presents the fourth seminar of its AI & CSS Seminar Series with Professor Deniz Yüret’s talk on December 24th. GLODEM AI & CSS Seminar Series brings together practitioners working on AI usage in various fields and scholars specializing in computational social sci

In this short presentation, we will describe the potentials and challenges of using artificial intelligence to understand social movements and then present the new bottom-up methodological approach that has been adopted by the GLOCON (Global Contentious Politics Database) Proje

This talk connects the most recent advances in the field of conflict studies and seeks to bridge them with some of the emerging techniques in data science and social media data harvesting.

AI tools enable businesses and governments to categorize and connect with people more efficiently. What happens when the assumptions behind their design clash with the principles of liberal democracy? Considering the pandemic and its economic repercussions, the danger of algori

On September 11-12, 2020 Koc University and Center for Globalization Peace and Democratic Governance (GLODEM) will host the 18th workshop of the Scholarly Society for International Policy Analysis (ICPA-Forum) and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA). It is titled

Workshop on Turkish Foreign Policy Organized by the Department of International Relations and Center for Globalization, Peace and Democratic Governance at Koç University as Part of a joint Initiative with the London School of Economics

Stephen Haber is A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Lecture by the Consul General of Sweden in Istanbul Mr. Peter Ericson about the contemporary Sweden and how Sweden got to where it is - one of the most innovative, prosperous and livable countries in the world.

This paper aims at a theoretical and empirical contribution to the analysis of public policy in a network perspective. It pursues an innovative thrust in that various sociological theories of societal differentiation and theories of organizational ecologies are combined and lin

The ‘Rise of China’ has become the dominant mantra of our times. From economic transformation, global economic dominance, to increasing military assertiveness, China is now popularly depicted as either displacing the economic, political and military hegemony of the United State

Although much evidence shows that territorial disputes fundamentally shape relations among states, we know surprisingly little about when territorial claims are made. We argue that revisionist states have incentive to make territorial claims when the great powers that manage th