The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award

"New Directions for Turkish Foreign Policy in
a Changing World Order: Challenges and Opportunities"

The
competition is open to all scholars in the social sciences with special
interest on contemporary Turkey.
The essays submitted to the competition should address the issues and
challenges that are related to Turkish attempts to position and re-evaluate
Turkish foreign policy to the increasingly fluid environment of world politics
that involves shifts and transitions of power. In particular, the authors should
assess the benefits and challenges of Turkey’s
newly discovered pro-active foreign policy that may lead to realignments and
revaluation of Turkey’s
traditional positioning in world politics.

The deadline for submissions is March 31^st, 2011.

The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award
includes $20,000 for the first prize, $10,000 for the second, and $5,000 for
the third. An independent, international jury will select the prize winners.

Conditions for the competition
are:

• All entries must be new and
  original works, not published previously in any form.
• Essays must be
  approximately 13.000 words, including title, citations, and endnotes. (References should be shown in
  the form of endnotes.)
• An abstract of 500 words embedded to the original
  essay and a short c.v. of
  the applicant are required.
• Entries must be submitted
  in English, in the form of an attached Word document to the following
  address:
  • http://award.sabanciuniv.edu/submityourentry/

For further information: http://award.sabanciuniv.edu