International Relations
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Turkey and Russia: Historical patterns and contemporary trendsin bilateral relations
(Oxford University Press, 2020-07-09)Turkish-Russian relations have had a tumultuous history characterized by periods of tensions and conflicts but also intense cooperation. This chapter uses a theoretically guided narrative of Turkish-Russian relations to ... -
The strategic use of narratives and governance of the COVID-19 pandemic in major autocratisers in Europe
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)By the end of 2022, scholars had published heavily on authoritarian consolidation at the time of COVID-19 and explored how governments adopted measures weakening democratic checks and balances yet strengthened their regimes ... -
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Breaking the stalemate in the study of the relationship of mutual military buildups, arms races, and militarized disputes: The Greece-Turkey/Ottoman Empire cases
(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation, 2023-04)The most recent surveys on the study of the connection between mutual military buildups, arms races, and military interstate disputes (MID) warn of research projects, especially in the case of the Greece-Turkey dyad, that ... -
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The strategic logic of digital disinformation: Offence, defence and deterrence in information warfare
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-01)Why do countries engage in disinformation campaigns even though they know that they will likely be debunked later on? We explore a core puzzle in information warfare in which countries that pursue disinformation to confuse ... -
Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)Does acquiring artificial intelligence (AI) technologies from the US or China render countries more authoritarian or technologically less advantageous? In this article, we explore to what extent importing AI/high-tech from ... -
The composition of descriptive representation
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)How well do governments represent the societies they serve? A key aspect of this question concerns the extent to which leaders reflect the demographic features of the population they represent. To address this important ... -
A critical analysis of the neoliberal state-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The gap between aims and achievements
(Corvinus University of Budapest, 2023)Despite the long years of the political, economic, and military presence of the international community, with its remarkable amount of aid, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) still suffers from political instability, a lack of ... -
The populist framing of the Russia-Ukraine war by the Hungarian government: convergence or contestation in the EU
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)This study examines how the Hungarian government frames the Russia-Ukraine War within the context of its relations with the European Union (EU) using discourse historical strand of critical discourse analysis (CDA). This ... -
Sources of ai innovation: More than a U.S.-China rivalry
(Transatlantic Policy Quarterly, 2023)Many experts frame the debates around AI technology as a great power rivalry between the U.S. and China. Indeed, by most measures, the United States and China lead the world in AI innovation. Yet focusing solely on the ... -
Collective discussion: Movement and carceral spatiality in the pandemic
(Oxford University Press, 2023-07-04)Various measures of mobility restrictions were introduced since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This collective discussion examines them in relation to six different carceral techniques that govern movement: ... -
Debating voter defection in Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-10-20)This study examines patterns of voter defection from Turkey’s incumbent AKP amid major economic and democratic decline. As in other electoral autocracies, defectors constitute a small but politically significant group in ... -
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(Non-)deport to discipline: The daily life of Afghans in Turkey
(Oxford University Press, 2023-10-31)This study contributes to discussions on the politics of (non-)deportability by focusing on the case of Afghans, the largest migrant community without a right to protection in Turkey, itself the country hosting the most ... -
Populist radical right beyond Europe: The case of Islamic nativism in Turkey
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023-06-16)Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) is one of the longest ruling among contemporary populist radical right parties (PRR). For nearly two decades, the AKP has shown tremendous success in achieving electoral dominance ... -
Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)Between 2007 and 2019 the Turkish regime used protest bans extensively in order to impede collective mobilization. In this paper, drawing on Michel Foucault’s discussion of raisond’état and an original dataset of protest ... -
Rationalising pedagogy: what counts as skill across musical communities of practice in contemporary Istanbul
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-06-22)Over the last two decades, the skilled practice of learning the ney (Sufi reed flute) has gone through a massive revival in Turkey, as part of a broader interest in the revitalised ‘Sufi music’ genre and in Islamic arts ... -
Double displacement of refugees in the context of the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake
(Wiley, 2023-08)This commentary is based on our observations during our fieldwork in the earthquake region in Turkey that took place in February 6, 2023 in 11 provinces where 49% of the entire Syrian population in Turkey live. In this ... -
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case
(Sage, 2023-11)The rise of populism presents a challenge to liberal democracy in various countries. This article questions how populist attitudes affect the democratic preferences of the electorate. Using representative survey data fielded ...
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