Department of International Relations
Recent Submissions
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Engaging the “Animal Question” in International Relations
(Oxford University Press, 2020)By raising the “animal question” in International Relations (IR), this essay seeks to contribute not only to put animals and human–animal relations on the IR agenda, but also to move the field in a less anthropocentric and ... -
Russian-Turkish cooperation in Syria: geopolitical alignment with limits
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Russian and Turkish interests have clashed over Syria since the beginning of the conflict in late 2011. Yet, in Summer 2016, the two governments emerged as deal makers in the Syrian conflict. Due to a host of international ... -
Smokestacks and pipelines: Russian-Turkish relations and the persistence of economic development
(Oxford University Press, 2020)When Aleksei Kosygin visited Turkey in 1975 for the inaugural firing of a massive Soviet-built steelworks, he laid out an ideologically charged vision of development: “unlike the Americans with their Coca-Cola factories, ... -
Domestic diversion: Selective targeting of minority out-groups
(Sage Publications, 2019)Domestic political use of force is a strategy for political leaders to divert the public’s attention away from economic instability and rebuild political capital. But, diversionary incentives are not the only motivation; ... -
Forum: rethinking neoclassical realism at theory's end
(Oxford University Press, 2021)This forum presents a snapshot of the current state of neoclassical realist theorizing. Its contributors are self-identified neoclassical realists who delineate their version of neoclassical realism (NCR), its scope, object ... -
Why did Turkish democracy collapse? A political economy account of AKP’s authoritarianism
(SAGE Publications, 2020)After decades of multiparty politics, Turkey is no longer a democracy. A theory-upending case, the country has descended into a competitive authoritarian regime under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma ... -
Searching for larger status in global politics: internationalization of higher education in turkey
(SAGE Publications, 2020)This work explores how a country’s political status may impact its soft power policies, such as internationalization of higher education, through an examination of the Turkish case. Based on a survey of and subsequent ... -
Rebel rivalry and the strategic nature of rebel group ideology and demands
(SAGE Publications, 2020)How does the presence of multiple combatants affect rebel groups’ ideological and demand positioning? Although violent forms of inter-group conflict have been widely studied in the civil war literature, rebel groups’ ... -
Feels like home: effect of transnational identities on attitudes towards foreign countries
(SAGE Publications, 2020)How do people react to foreign actors’ involvement in a conflict in a third party? Many studies have explored how individuals react to their country’s foreign policy choices, as well as how they react to the policies ... -
К вопросу о "Чобан Гераях" в истории Крымского ханства
(Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of General History, 2020)The article is devoted to significant pages of the history of Crimea. The author analyzes famous Gerays’ dynasty. He pays particular attention to the Russia’s policy towards Crimean khanate. -
International political economy in Turkey: the evolution and current state of a maturing subfield
(International Relations Council of Turkey, 2020)Since its emergence in the 1970s, international political economy (IPE) has been one of the main subfields of International Relations (IR) in North America and Britain. The past two decades have witnessed a growing academic ... -
Wendt versus Pollock: toward visual semiotics in the discipline of IR theory
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2020)We focus on a key IR Theory article by Alexander Wendt (1992) and two Jackson Pollock paintings. Our aim is to identify meanings Pollock’s art communicates and reveals for Wendt (1992). It derives from an appeal to visual ... -
Turkey and Cyprus: a poliheuristic analysis of decisions during the crises of 1964, 1967, and 1974
(Oxford University Press, 2020)The Cyprus problem is one of the most protracted and complex conflicts in the world. This article uses poliheuristic (PH) theory to analyze Turkey's decision-making during the Cyprus crises of 1964, 1967, and 1974. We ... -
Methodology as a lingua Franca in International Relations: Peripheral self-reflections on dialogue with the core
(Oxford University Press, 2020-04)Scholarly dialogue between ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ or ‘West/non-West’ in many disciplinary communities has become an issue of discussion in recent decades, spawned in part by increased expectations in many periphery communities ... -
Aid‐supported governance reforms in Solomon Islands: Piecemeal progress or persistent stalemate?
(Wiley, 2020-05)Motivation:Despite seeming donor–recipient consensus on the importance of effective governance, aid‐linked reforms often fall short of the expected outcomes. Solomon Islands provides a highly relevant case to explore the ... -
Policy transfer, external actors and policy conditionality: public financial management reform in Turkey
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)Turkey’s economic turmoil of today is reminiscent of an earlier era, during which instability, high inflation, and financial mismanagement ruled the day. Yet until recently, Turkey was celebrated as an economic success ... -
EU economic governance and Covid-19: policy learning and windows of opportunity
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)This article analyses the extent to which the Covid-19 pandemic crisis represents a window of opportunity towards fundamental change in the economic governance of the European Union (EU). Adopting a historical institutionalist ... -
‘Wars of others’: national cleavages and attitudes toward external conflicts
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)Why do individuals sympathize with others’ wars, an antecedent of the decision to become a foreign fighter? By collecting original public opinion data from Lebanon, in 2015, and Turkey in 2017, about the actors of conflict ... -
The massigli affair and its context: Turkish foreign policy after the molotov–ribbentrop pact
(SAGE Publications, 2020)This article examines Turkey's wartime diplomacy between the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and Hitler's unleashing of Operation Barbarossa. Rather than a survey of Turkish foreign policy as a whole, it takes a critical episode ... -
Yardstick of friendship: Soviet-Turkish relations and the montreux convention of 1936
(Slavica Publishers, 2020)
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