Art and IR Theory: Visual Semiotic Games

​Serdar Ş. Güner obtained his PhD degree from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, the University of Geneva in 1990. His thesis is titled: A Game Theoretical Analysis of Alliance Formation and Dissolution: The Case Study of the Relationship Among the United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China, 1949-1972. He spent the next two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Government, the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Department of International Relations, Bilkent University. He won Bilkent University Distinguished Teacher Award in 2002. Serdar Ş. Güner gave seminars and lectures on game theory and negotiation problems at various government agencies and universities, participated to international conventions, served as a referee for scientific journals. He is an amateur trumpet player and painter.

Serdar Ş. Güner 於1990年獲得日內瓦大學國際研究研究所的博士學位。他的論文題目為《聯盟形成與解散的博弈論分析：美國、蘇聯與中華人民共和國之間的關係案例研究，1949-1972》。隨後的兩年，他在德克薩斯州大學奧斯汀分校的政府系所擔任博士後研究員，之後加入比爾肯特大學國際關係系。他於2002年獲得比爾肯特大學傑出教師獎。Serdar Ş. Güner 在各政府機構和大學舉辦有關博弈論和談判問題的研討會和講座，參加國際會議，並擔任科學期刊的審稿人。他是一位業餘小號演奏者和畫家。