Muserref Yetim

Clinical Associate Professor

Professor Yetim is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Program in International Relations at New York University. Raised in Istanbul, Turkey, she took her BA with honors in Economics and International Relations from Istanbul University, and then was awarded an MA in Politics and International Relations from Bogaziçi University in 1998. She finished her studies in the US at the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 with a PhD in Politics. 

Her interest in economics extends as well to numismatics. She is a member of the New York Numismatic Club.

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D., Government

Bogaziçi University

M.A., Politics and International Relations

Istanbul University

B.A., Economics & International Relations

Areas of Research

  • International Political Economy
  • Comparative Politics
  • Middle Eastern Politics & Societies 
  • Latin America
  • Resource Scarcity and Conflicts

External Affiliations

  • American Political Science Association
  • Middle East Studies Association

Fellowships and Awards

  • 2003 - 2004 MacDonald Dissertation Fellowship
  • 2002 - 2003 APSA International Advance Graduate Student Travel Grant
  • Spring 2002 - Fall 2002 Patterson Professional Development Fellowship
  • 1998 - 2001 Turkish Higher Education Council Grant
  • 1992 - 1994 Istanbul Chambers of Trade Scholarship

Books

  • Negotiating International Water Rights: Resource Conflict in Turkey, Syria and Iraq
    IB Tauris: 2016
  • Turkey in the 21st Century: Economic Transformation, Opportunities, and Challenges of An Emerging Economy
  • The Political Economy of Finance: An Institutional Approach

Selected Articles

  • Governing International Common Pool Resources: International Watercourses of the Middle East
    Water Policy Journal 4 (2002), pp. 305 - 321
  • Governing International Rivers of the Middle East
    World Affairs 166 (2003), pp. 81 - 94
  • The Emergence of Cooperation in International Water Resources
    EAU: Inventer la coopération, Le Courrier de la Planète Publications No. 70, 2003
  • The Impact of Ethnicity and Socialization on Definitions of Democracy: The Case of Mexican Americans and Mexicans
    Mexican Studies 19 (2003), pp. 81 - 102
    Co-Authored

Current Projects

Other research projects include, “The IMF, EU and AKP: International and Domestic Political Determinants of the Economic Policy in Turkey,” and “Determinants of Federal Government's Intervention into the Financial Industry and Its Short and Long-Term Implications.”