Biography
Yavuz Akdağ currently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Hakkari. He earned his Ph.D. in Politics and International Affairs from the University of South Florida (USF) in 2023, focusing on the intersection of national security, cybersecurity, and International Relations (IR) theory. During his doctoral studies, he received Dissertation Completion Fellowships from USF. Akdağ obtained his Master’s degree in Political Science from USF in 2017. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Selçuk University in Turkey in 2012. As an undergraduate student, he participated in the Socrates-Erasmus program, where he spent a semester at Wroclaw University of Economics in Poland in 2011. In 2014, Akdağ was awarded a Turkish government scholarship to pursue graduate studies in the U.S. He spent a year learning English at the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Akdağ's research interests include International Relations theory, international security, and cybersecurity in IR.
Research Areas
Social Sciences and Humanities
Political Science
International Relations
Published journal articles indexed by SCI, SSCI, and AHCI
2019
2019