Our middle powers project at the @belfercenter.bsky.social has now published its first reports, including mine on Turkish foreign policy 👇

On Turkey, @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social examines how foreign policy issues were instrumentalized by Pres Erdoğan & the AKP in the May 2023 elections, finding populist politicization through the discursive metanarrative of status elevation & external sponsorship www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎧 Interview Alert! @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social joins @williamarmstrong.bsky.social on @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social to discuss her article Foreign policy as domestic politics in populist competitive authoritarianism: the case of the May 2023 elections in #Turkey turkeybooktalk.com/2025/11/11/s...

Latest episode, from last week 📌📌 Senem Aydın-Düzgit (@senemaydndzgit.bsky.social) on the weaponisation of foreign policy in Turkey's domestic politics 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/11/11/s...

I very much enjoyed talking to @williamarmstrong.bsky.social for @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social on the domestic use of foreign policy in Turkish politics. based on my latest article for SESP. Thank you for the invite!

New episode drops tomorrow 👇👇 Senem Aydın-Düzgit (@senemaydndzgit.bsky.social) on the weaponisation of foreign policy in Turkey's domestic politics Stay tuned 📌📌 turkeybooktalk.com turkeybooktalk.substack.com

💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 #Turkey ‘approaching foreign policy as a solely external matter... may run the risk of attributing it marginal significance in electoral contests where populists compete for power’ Read the article by @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How do international crises help authoritarians? I wrote for the Project Syndicate 👇

@senemaydndzgit.bsky.social shows how Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine helped strengthen the domestic legitimacy of autocrats in Hungary and Turkey in the run-up to pivotal elections. bit.ly/49ppgKl

Glad to see this finally in print. For those who are interested in the populist use of history and its relationship to foreign policy 👇

How does foreign policy fuel populist authoritarianism? In my latest piece, I explore this question through the case of Turkey’s May 2023 elections.👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pınar Bilgin ve Gülşah Çapan Hocalarımızın yeni projelerini Cuma günü İPM’de dinleme şansı bulduk. Türkiye’nin ilk yüz yılına güvenlik kavramı penceresinden bakan heyecan verici bir çalışma. Bulgularını merakla bekliyoruz

"Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin İlk Yüz Yılına Güvenlik Kavramı Penceresinden Bakmak TÜBİTAK 1001 Proje Tanıtımı ve İlk Bulgular" 🎙️Senem Aydın-Düzgit, IPM 🎤Pınar Bilgin, Bilkent Üniversitesi 🎤Zeynep Gülşah Çapan, Erfurt Üniversitesi 🗓26 Eylül 11:00, Cuma 🚩İPM, Karaköy 🔗Kayıt için: forms.gle/mvb6t3mvAnUS...

Thank you IPC for organizing, and @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social for hosting. A goal of mine is to audio-visualize the political science toolkit. Here I presented a new dataset of 11,165 regime videos compiled with @draege.bsky.social. Along with our analysis, we make the dataset available

There's a lot going on in Turkey's politics right now. The repression rate is ratcheting up. I aim to provide insights with a new dataset on populist audiovisual strategies. Please join me at IPC this Thursday at 11am. Honored to be hosted by @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social forms.gle/6BRkXR3439LKV7…

@norafisheronar.bsky.social will be with us this Friday to discuss her new book on contesting pluralism in Turkey and beyond 👇

Our forum on the global perspectives on democracy support in light of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine is now out in International Studies Perspectives 👇 Many thanks to Daniela Huber and Anna Khakee for bringing this together academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...

I have been thinking and writing for a while on the international context of authoritarian resilience. Here is my most recent article in Contemporary Politics on the role of international crises on autocratic resilience in Hungary and Turkey t.co/4idkSWeQb6

"Turkey sees the new emerging global context as an opportunity to remind the EU of Turkey's #accession [...] but the state of democracy in Turkey represents a great issue for the relationship between the two sides." - @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social at the #DanishPPC /44

"Security and defence are key to Turkey's approach to Europe. A scary scenario for the country is the formation of a European security architecture - autonomous from NATO - which does not include #Turkey" /43 - @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social, Professor at Sabanci University, during the #DanishPPC

On day 2⃣ of the #DanishPPC we're discussing "The EU’s global engagement in a multipolar world", with interventions from Amb. Birgitte Markussen, @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social, @amandinesabourin.bsky.social & Sarah Kristine Poppelkvist 🔗 tepsa.eu/policy-advic... @diis.dk @thinktankeuropa.bsky.social

It is not often that we have two articles published in one week, but here we go..We examined the EU's responses to crises in its neighbourhood through the concept of protean power, and it is open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just published! With all the talk on the international context of the authoritarian turn, we looked at Germany’s role in the erosion of the rule of law in Turkey and what how this informs theorising Germany’s power in Europe👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bu sene yakın zamanda kaybettiğimiz Prof. Fuat Keyman anısına verilen Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödülünü (BAGEP 2025) Prof. Senem Aydın Düzgit'ten aldım. Beni bu ödüle layık gören herkese çok teşekkür ederim. @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social @bilimakademisi.bsky.social

📰 Sunday extras: "The Protests and Political Crisis Shaping Turkey's Democratic Future" with @karabekir.bsky.social, @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social and @gonultol.bsky.social. [1/5]

Just published! @chathamhouse.org report on competing visions of international order incl. our contribution on Turkey with @aysezarakol.bsky.social

We discussed Turkey's critical juncture on the Rethinking Democracy podcast with @gonultol.bsky.social and @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social. Listen here: www.mei.edu/multimedia/p...

☪ We've ungated a selection of the JoD's Turkey analysis for a limited time! Full list of essays here: www.journalofdemocra...

On Monday, we had a full house discussion at the Istanbul Policy Center on the German election results with Heinrich Kreft, Ebru Turhan , Cigdem Nas and Johanna Wietschel. For those who missed it, it is now available on our youtube channel 👇 youtube.com/live/YkISs-8...

“The question we need to ask is: Why do so many people around the world feel that liberal constitutionalism actually hindered genuine democracy?” —Pratap Bhanu Mehta, with @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social, Mark W. Frazier, & Jeffrey C. Isaac on rising authoritarianism. publicseminar.org/2025/02/what...

Today, Turkey lost 66 people to an entirely preventable disaster. In a luxury ski resort, during one of the peak seasons, people died because there were no fire stairs, the fire alarm was not working correctly, and the fire extinguishers were empty.

This paper is dear to our hearts.   We were deeply saddened that Professor Fuat Keyman left us shortly before it was accepted for publication. @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social and I dedicate this paper to his loving memory.

 Full text: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

First publication of the year now out and open access in International Politics! This one is very close to heart as it is the last one we (@mmkutlay and I) wrote with dear Fuat Keyman. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

The end of the Assad regime – after 50 years of rule – will have massive reverberations in the Middle East. Belfer Center Experts including Director Meghan L. O'Sullivan, Senem Aydin Duzgit, Graham Allison and Stephen Walt weigh in on what's next for Syria. www.belfercenter.org/quick-take/f...

Our take on what the end of the Assad regime means for the region and beyond 👇

Güç geçişi döneminde küresel güney ve Türkiye'nin ilişkisini @mustafakutlay.bsky.social @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social @sinanulgen.bsky.social ve @selimkuneralp ile birlikte konuştuk. Makaleyi okumanızı şiddetle öneririm, yayının kaydını da hazır olunca paylaşacağım. www.tusiad.org/tr/yayinlar/...

If you are interested in Turkey, Europe, and IR theory, join us tomorrow, 18 November, at Harvard CES for a talk by @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social and Bahar Rumelili on “The Chronopolitics of Turco-European Relations”! 1pm, Adolphus Busch Hall

My piece in Die Zeit on Turkey and the BRICS www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

join us tomorrow 25 Sept. 13:30-14:30 CET Zeitenwende as Coming of Age? EU Foreign and Security Policy through War and Peace @europeansecurity.bsky.social SI launch 2 with @rgwhitman.bsky.social @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social @evamichaels.bsky.social Link: t.ly/t4Gwh

New Geopolitical Europe Pulse! Ahead of UNGA high-level debate & the Summit for the Future, it features articles on EU cooperation beyond Europe, incl. @globalsarang.bsky.social, @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social (in @europeansecurity.bsky.social) & more: geopoliticaleurope.substack.com/p/geopolitic...

New Article Alert! How do we assess the role of EU’s global strategic partnerships in EU foreign policy? Now out in @European Security Many thanks to @heidimaurer.bsky.social Kolja Raube and Richard Whitman for bringing this volume together www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happening Monday at Sabancı's Istanbul Policy Center! I'm honored to be joined by a rockstar team: @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social, Ateş Altınordu, and Berk Esen. Drawing on Turkey, my book Fight Scenes analyzes pop culture as asymmetric battleground in autocratizing states. Register: rb.gy/aamq9e

And on further research news, my old globus.uio.no colleagues and I make a plea in theloop.ecpr.eu for the EU to gear up efforts to revamp the liberal international order to revive it yet make it more just @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social @fvonlucke.bsky.social theloop.ecpr.eu/its-time-for...

Delighted to see this one out in International Affairs! Why and how do authoritarian middle powers contest the the global order?By studying Turkey’s contestation of the EU, I argue that they do so mainly out of concerns for regime security. academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...

Directly targeting and killing civilians is an immoral war crime. Full stop. Sadly, such acts, motivated by a desire for revenge, are not rare in international politics. [THREAD]

Very happy to see this one published!How do populist authoritarian leaders survive severe economic and governance crises?How does it relate to state and market capture?We explore these questions through the case of Erdoğan’s resilience in Turkey. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...