Vakur Sumer

Vakur Sumer

Director

Assoc. Prof. Vakur Sumer has received his Ph.D. on International Relations, from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He is a faculty member at Department of International Relations, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey. He has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Global Research Institute at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC, USA, and as a visiting scholar at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California-Davis, CA, USA. Sumer has been a researcher at Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany in 2012.

Staff's Publications


December 28, 2022

Eurasia Outlook 2021: Economic, Social and Political Perspectives in Eurasia

As the Eurasian Research Institute (ERI), we have been presenting our weekly E-bulletin publications to our readers, in which we have evaluated the issues in the Eurasian region within an academic framework since 2015. We discussed the economy, security, international relations, education and other social issues within our book series […]
October 19, 2021

I. Uluslararası Türk Enerji Birliği Kongresi

Throughout the history, Turkic world has never given up the ideology of becoming together and establishing global peace and order. In this context, many attempts have been made and some successes have been achieved individually. Today, cooperation processes are tried to be developed in an updated context within many organizations. […]
May 5, 2021

Eurasia Outlook 2020: Economic, Social and Political Perspectives in Eurasia

The COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2020 has affected all areas of life worldwide, bringing many changes. In brief, countries were put to great test, particularly their healthcare systems, economic structures and relations with other countries. During this period, millions of people were affected negatively in various ways. In the […]
April 22, 2021

Asia Anew Initiative and Visits of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey to Central Asia

The 11th Ambassadors Conference held in August 2019 represents the starting point of the “Asia Anew Initiative” announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu. The idea that the center of gravity of the basic economic and political platform of the world is gradually shifting to the […]
October 25, 2020

Eurasia Outlook 2019: Economic, Social and Political Perspectives in Eurasia

Since 2015, the Eurasian Research Institute (ERI) has been presenting to the readers weekly e-bulletins that contain current economic, political, cultural, and social developments in the Eurasian region. Over the past five years, many experts, diplomats, politicians, as well as ordinary readers from Turkey, Kazakhstan, and other Eurasian countries have […]
October 24, 2020

Евразийский обзор 2019: экономические, социальные и политические перспективы Евразии

С 2015 года Евразийский научно-исследовательский институт (ЕНИИ) представляет читателям еженедельные электронные бюллетени, в которых освещаются текущие экономические, политические, культурные и социальные события в евразийском регионе. За последние пять лет многие эксперты, дипломаты, политики, а также рядовые читатели из Турции, Казахстана и других евразийских стран высоко оценили аналитические материалы, написанные нашими […]
July 18, 2019

Eurasia Outlook 2018: Economic, Social and Political Perspectives in Eurasia

Since 2015, the Eurasian Research Institute (ERI) has been issuing weekly e-bulletins that contain analytical articles on a wide range of topics related to political, economic and social developments in the Eurasian space, as well as the news block that covers recent activities in the region. As demonstrated by the […]
July 17, 2019

Евразийский обзор 2018: экономические, социальные и политические перспективы Евразии

С 2015 года Евразийский научно-исследовательский институт (ЕИИ) выпускает еженедельные электронные бюллетени, которые содержат аналитические статьи по широкому кругу тем, связанных с политическими, экономическими и социальными изменениями на евразийском пространстве, а также новостной блок, который освещает последние события в регионе. Как свидетельствуют положи тельные отзывы, которые мы продолжа ем получать от […]
April 11, 2019

Eurasian Research Institute: Past, Present and Future

The Eurasian Research Institute of the Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University jointly established by the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Turkey is a think tank, which is tasked with following economic, political, social and cultural developments, as well as analyzing and developing strategies on issues related to […]
December 28, 2018

EFE-2018 Book of Proceedings

Intellectual capital is seen as a vital strategic asset in the 21st century that contributes to firm performance and value creation. In the new “knowledge-based” economy, which began to develop in the 1990s, intellectual capital rather than physical capital has emerged as a significant factor in terms of potential future […]