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 31st, 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/