Osman Zeki Gokce

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, İstanbul Medipol University

Osman Zeki Gökçe is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at İstanbul Medipol University. He earned both M.A. (2012) and Ph.D. (2018) degrees in Political Science from Sabancı University. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from Koç University. During the spring semester of 2017, he pursued his pre-doctoral research at Harvard University as a Visiting Fellow. His research interests lie in the intersection of quantitative political methodology and international relations focusing specifically on factors affecting the likelihood of interstate relations. His current research focuses on the role of energy dependence in shaping states’ foreign policy preferences and actions. As one of the important outputs of this research agenda, he compiled Global Energy Interdependence Dataset, presented in monadic and dyadic formats for the years between 1978 and 2014. He has also published interdisciplinary joint articles on social network and media analyses and their applications on subjects related to domestic and foreign policies of Turkey.