Nukhet A. Sandal

• “Religious Actors as Epistemic Communities in Conflict Transformation: The Cases of Northern Ireland and South Africa,” Review of International Studies 37, 2011, 929-949.

• “Religion and International Relations Theory: Towards a Mutual Understanding,” European Journal of International Relations 17(1), 2011, 3-25 (with Patrick James).

• “State Religious Exclusivity and International Crises between 1990 and 2002,” (with Jonathan Fox) in Patrick James (ed.) Religion, Identity and Global Governance: Ideas, Evidence and Practice, Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2010).

• “Poliheuristic Theory and Crisis Decision-making: A Comparative Analysis of Turkey with China,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 44(1), 2011, 22-57 (with Patrick James, Enyu Zhang and Carolyn James).

• “Towards Integrating Religion into IR Theory,” Zeitschrift fur Internationale Beziehungen (with Jonathan Fox).

• “Churches in ‘Troubles’: A Knowledge-based Analysis of Clergy Involvement in Conflict,” in Jonathan Fox (ed.) Religion, Politics, Society and the State, Boulder,CO: Paradigm Publishers (2011).

Forthcoming

• “Conservative Peacemakers: Slow Learning or Punctuated Peace Socialization?,” Political Studies (with Neophytos Loizides).

•“Clash of Public Theologies? Rethinking the Concept of Religion in Politics,” Alternatives.

Under Review

• Religion in IR Theory: Concepts, Tools, and Debates (with Jonathan Fox), book manuscript.

• Religious Epistemic Communities of Conflict Transformation, book manuscript.

• “Counter-bidding: The Success and Failure of Ethnic Outbidding in Divided Societies” (with Neophytos Loizides and Gavin Moore, Revised and Resubmitted to Electoral Studies).

Work in Progress

•Questioning “Secular Citizenship”: Christians of the Turkish Nation-State, book manuscript (planned completion date: September 2012).

• “Holding the Sacred Accountable: The Effect of Government Involvement in Religion on Media Freedom,” (with Jenifer Whitten-Woodring).

• “Religious Actors as Epistemic Communities in Human Rights Regimes”

•“Leading with “Zero Problems”?: Brazilian and Turkish Foreign Policies Compared.”

Conference Papers and Presentations

• “Holding the Sacred Accountable: The Effect of Government Involvement in Religion on Media Freedom.” (with Jenifer Whitten-Woodring) Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, 2010.

• “Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Theologies in International Relations,” Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, 2010.

• “Tradition in Practice: Theologies, Governance, and Political Violence.” Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association-West (ISA-West), San Francisco, CA, 2009.

• “Conservative Peacemakers: Center Right Parties in the Northern Irish and Cypriot Peace Processes.” (with Neophytos Loizides) Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Toronto, Canada, 2009.

• “The Politics of Ethnoreligious Conflict and Conciliation: The Case of Northern Ireland.” Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), New York City, NY, 2009.

• “Religion and International Relations Theory: Towards a Mutual Understanding.” (with Patrick James) Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), New York City, NY, 2009.

• “Emerging Epistemic Communities: Integrating Religious Actors into IR Theory.” Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association-West (ISA-West), San Francisco, CA, 2008.

• “State Religious Exclusivity and International Crises between 1990 and 2002.” (with Jonathan Fox) Invited paper presented at the Religion, Identity and Global Governance Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2007.

• “Poliheuristic Theory and Crisis Decision-making: A Comparative Analysis of Turkey with China.” (with Patrick James, Enyu Zhang and Carolyn James) Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), San Diego, CA, 2006.

Invited Lectures and Presentations

• Lecture/Seminar: “Conservative Peacemakers: Center-Right Parties in Cyprus and Northern Ireland,” Irish Studies Seminar Series, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, November 2009.

• Lecture: “Public Theologies in Divided Societies: The Cases of Northern Ireland and South Africa,” Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, October 2008. • Lecture: “Israeli-Turkish Strategic Partnership: Regional Implications and Challenges,” Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, September 2008.

• Discussant: “Russia and Kosovo: The Nationalist Background to Realpolitik,” presentation by Robert English at the Center for International Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, April 2008.

• Discussant: “Israel’s Strategic Challenges,” presentation by Efraim Inbar at the Center for International Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, February 2007.