Volkan Tibet Gur

Welcome,

 

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. I hold BA and MA degrees in International Relations from Bilkent University, Turkey.

 

My research interests include international political economy with a special emphasis on the militarization of oil and gas-related territorial disputes, the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in climate change, and quantitative methodology with an emphasis on computational methods.

 

My dissertation work examines the link between natural resources and maritime territorial disputes, while my secondary research explores the drivers and consequences of corporate political activity with a special emphasis on firm-level climate change strategies. 

 

In my work, I employ quantitative methods such as online survey experiments, computational text analysis, MLE, and difference-in-difference designs. I supplement quantitative methods with short case studies and anecdotal evidence.  My previous work has been published in academic journals such as Economics & Politics and Turkish Studies.

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