American University of Central Asia - AUCA

Buğra Güngör, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Associate Professor

International and Comparative Politics Department

Division of Social Sciences

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Phone: +996 (312) 915000 ext. 458

Room: 215

Dr. Buğra Güngör is an Assistant Professor in the International and Comparative Politics department at the American University of Central Asia. He holds his Ph.D. in International Relations and Political Science from The Geneva Graduate Institute (2022, Switzerland), a Master of Arts in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Sabanci University (2016, Turkey), and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with a minor in Political Science from Bilkent University (2014, Turkey).

Dr. Güngör joined AUCA in 2023 as the OSUN-CEU Global Teaching Fellow and teaches courses on comparative politics, democracy, and foreign policy analysis in the ICP department.

Global Teaching Fellowship by the Open Society University Network & Central European University, 2023-2024.
Research Grants for PhD Candidates by the Geneva Graduate Institute, 2019 and 2020.
The Best Poster Prize in PhD Research Share by the Geneva Graduate Institute, 2018.
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Scholarship (100.000 Swiss Francs), 2016-2020.
Valedictorian of Class 2016, Sabanci University.
Full scholarship by Sabanci University, 2014-2016.
Comprehensive scholarship by Bilkent University, 2009-2014.

Substantive: Conflict processes, foreign aid, identity, inter/intra-group relations, political violence, Turkish politics, Turkish foreign policy.
Methodological: Content analysis, quantitative/qualitative text analysis, and survey experiments.

Güngör, Buğra. Foreign aid during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Turkey. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 21.3 (2021): 337-352. DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2021.1900668, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14683857.2021.1900668?needAccess=true

Foreign Policy Analysis (ICP-318.2)
Foundations of Policy Analysis (ICP-213)
Identity, Order, and Violence in the Post Cold War (ICP-433)
Intro to Comparative Politics (ICP-131)
Senior Thesis I (ICP-404)
Senior Thesis II (ICP-406)
Conflict and Development (ICP-307)
Democracy in Dark Times (ICP/LAW/HR-396)