Lenore G. Martin
Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Brooklyn College
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 12:20 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.
By appointment
Office: Administration Building, Room 464
Phone: (617) 735-9785
E-mail: martinl@emmanuel.edu
Lenore G. Martin is a Professor of Political Science. She is an Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University where she serves as co-chair of the WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar. She is also an Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard where she co-chairs the Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World co-sponsored by CMES and WCFIA. Her major field is International Relations; particularly, international relations of the Middle East and Turkey. Professor Martin is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and the Middle East Studies Association.
Spotlight
Wyant Lecture Presents: Israel and Palestine: If Not Two States Now Then What? Click the link below to watch Part 1 of 7.
Courses Taught
- POLSC1401 - Introduction to International Relations
- POLSC2401 - American Foreign Policy
- POLSC2409 - Politics of International Economic Relations
- POLSC2411 - The Contemporary Middle East: Challenges and Promise
- POLSC3405 - Strategies of War and Peace
- POLSC3407 - Political Islam
- POLSC3403 - Human Issues in International Relations
- POLSC3164 - Senior Seminar and Internship
Professional Highlights
Current Positions
- Emmanuel College, Professor, Department of Political Science, and Louise Doherty Wyant Professor
- Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University and co-chair of the WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar.
- Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and co-chair the Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World co-sponsored by CMES and WCFIA.
Awards/Honors Received
2012 St Antony's College, University of Oxford, Senior Associate Member, Trinity Term
2010 Fullbright Senior Researcher, Turkey
2006 Fulbright Senior Specialist, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, for development of the Middle East Studies program
2005 Fulbright Senior Specialist, Middle East Technical University, Ankara for preliminary work on developing a Center for Middle Eastern Studies
2003 Kuwait Research Fund, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University for research on Kuwait's national security
2002 Emmanuel College, Faculty Development Grant
1997 Maurice Pechet Foundation grant for research in Turkey, Israel and Syria
1996 Rockefeller Foundation grant for use of Bellagio Conference and Study Center for project on New Frontiers in Middle East Security
1995 Emmanuel College Faculty Excellence Award
1993 - 1996 Maurice Pechet Foundation grant for project on Middle East security issues
1990 - 1991 Maurice Pechet Foundation grant for research on the International Implications of a Palestinian State. Research travel to Oman, UAE, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Israel and the Occupied Territories
1988 Research Institute for Medicine and Chemistry grant for research on Egypt and the Gulf. Research travel to Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt, Israel and the Occupied Territories Summer,
1986 Maurice Pechet Foundation grant for research in the Middle East. Research travel to Egypt, Israel and the Occupied Territories Spring,
1982 Faculty Development Grant from Emmanuel College
Significant Publications, Presentations & Panels
Opinion
- "Addressing the Kurdish Question," New York Times, Room For Debate, November 15, 2011
- "Is Turkey losing its balancing act in the new Middle East?" The Middle East Channel on ForeignPolicy.com, May 26, 2011, with Joshua Walker
- "Turkey's new AKP Government" Will It Move Towards a Liberal or Illiberal Democracy? Huffington Post, June 22, 2011
Books
- In process: Turkey and the Middle East
- Winter 2004: The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy, Lenore G. Martin and Dimitris Keridis eds. (MIT Press)
- Winter 1999: New Frontiers in Middle East Security, Lenore G. Martin, editor (St. Martin's Press/Palgrave paperback, 2001)
- Summer 1984: The Unstable Gulf: Threats From Within, Lenore G. Martin (Lexington Books, Lexington, MA)
Recent Presentations and Panels
- June 14, 2012 "What Does a Restructing Middle East Mean for Turkey, the US and Their Foreign Policies?" St Antony's College, University of Oxford
- March 29, 2012 "Turkey and the US in a Bipolarizing Middle East," Koc University, Istanbul, conference on Turkish American Alliance in A Volatile Region: Challenges and Opportunities
- September 23, 2011 "Structural Challenges to Security and Cooperation in the Black Sea Region," Keynote address, NATO sponsored conference on the Black Sea at Middle East Technical University, Ankara
- June 23, 2011 - Panelist, "Turkey and Iran," The Middle East Institute, The Second Annual Conference on Turkey, Washington, D.C.
- March 13, 2011 - Speaker, "Turkey-Israel Relations," Workshop on Turkey-Israel, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
- November 4, 2010 - "Recalibrating Turkish Foreign Policy: Turkey, the US and the Middle East," co-sponsored by The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World and The Middle East Seminar, Harvard University
Interview Samples
- September 27, 2012: U.S. - Israel Ties, Today Show, China Radio International
- April 2, 2012 : "The Middle East is Polarized Around the US and Iran After Syria," Aksam
- August 21, 2011: Has the Arab Spring Made Israel Less Safe, Today Show, China International Radio
- September 17, 2010: "Israel Needs to Reach a Two-State Solution," ORSAM
- July 20, 2012: Turkey's Foreign Policies, Today Show, China International Radio
- July 16, 2012: "Why Did Biden Come to Iraq?" Rudaw
- February 17, 2009: Gaza sours Israel-Turkey relations, Aljazeera
Articles
- 2012: "Turkish Foreign Policy in the New World Order," in Metin Heper and Sabri Sayari, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey, Routledge
- December 2011: "Making Sense of Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East Under the AKP," Turkish Studies, Vol 12, No. 4, December 2011 with Meliha Altunisik
- March 2010: Berger, A., Cox, H., Kelman, H.C., L.G., Mendelsohn, E., Norton, A.R., Steiner, H., & Walt in A. Berger et al., Israel and Palestine—Two states for two peoples: If not now, when? (pp. 1-14)
- March 2010: Kelman, H.C., & Martin, L.G. Palestinian refugees in A. Berger et al., Israel and Palestine-Two states for two peoples: If not now when? (pp. 15-22).
- 2009: "U.S. Relations With Turkey," in Robert Looney, editor. A Handbook of U.S.-Middle East, (Routledge)
- March 2009: "Turkey and the Gulf," Turkish Studies
- March 2009: "Introduction: Turkey as a Trans-Regional Actor," Turkish Studies
- July 2004: "Middle East Overview," Citizen's Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy, N.Y.: Foreign Policy Association, pp.53-72
- Winter 2004: "Turkey's Middle East Foreign Policy: Unresolved Dilemmas", in Lenore G. Martin and Dimitris Keridis, eds. The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy
- July 2003: "Assessing the Impact of U.S.- Israeli Relations on the Arab World," Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks
- Fall 2002: "Conceptualizing Security in the Middle East: Israel and a Palestinian State," in Tami Jacoby and Brent Sasley, eds., Redefining Security in the Middle East (Manchester University Press)
- Spring 2002: "Arafat's Dueling Dilemmas: Succession and the Peace Process", in Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, vol. 6 no. 1 (March 2002)
- Spring 2002: "Türkiye ve Günümüzde Orta Dogu: Ulusal Güvenlik Arayisi" ("Turkey and the Contemporary Middle East: The Search for National Security"), in Project Türk, Istanbul
- Spring 2000: "Turkey's Security in the Middle East", Turkish Studies, vol I, no. 1, Spring 2000
The Unstable Gulf
The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy
New Frontiers Middle East Security
