It was two weeks ago, Monday. I knew the deadline for my next post at UVenus was coming up. I thought I would write about the office space and how we academics have our own ways of designing and decorating our offices. I was moving my office on the same day so it felt all the more relevant. I did not have to look for any other topic; spontaneously, simultaneously with what was going on in my life, I would write my piece during the week.
However, something changed my plan of writing about this topic that seemed to come naturally…
Itir Toksöz
Itır is originally from Edremit, a large town on the Aegean Coast in Turkey. After leaving her hometown for her studies, she has lived in both cities of the world which have land both in Asia and Europe: Çanakkale and Istanbul. She has earned a BA degree in Political Science and Public Administration from Marmara University in Turkey in 1998, a DEA degree in Strategy in International Relations from Université Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1999 and a Ph.D degree in Public and International Affairs from Northeastern University, Boston in 2007. She has taught several courses in International Relations in the USA and Turkey. She is now an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Dogus University in Istanbul and the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at the same University. She is also the Erasmus Exchange Program Departmental Coordinator for the Department of International Relations. Her main areas of research is civil-military relations, threat perceptions, science and technology in international relations and human security. As well as these traditional security issues, she also studies international relations through films, cartoons, music and other arts. She is a member of the T:AP (Transcend: Art and Peace) network. Itir also loves composing her own songs and writing her own lyrics, poetry, tales and essays. She adores traveling, the seaside, the cosmopolitan cities, the juncture of civilizations and her ultimate goal in life is sharing life itself through a “meeting of the minds.”
Itır TOKSÖZ Uluslararası İlişkiler alanında doktora sahibidir ve ABD ve Türkiye’deüniversitelerde dersler vermiştir. Şu anda kendisi Istanbul-Türkiye’de Uluslararasıİlişkiler alanında Yardımcı Doç. Dr. olarak çalışmaktadır.
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