Tuğba Ö. Bayar

📚 This contribution may speak to those who works on migration, compliance, human rights law, or international hypocrisy.

It examines how irregular migrants’ rights r undermined in practice.
I argue that states engage in political malignancy creating a compliance gap to systematically bypass the rights of irregular migrants.
I also argue that“states cooperate not to cooperate”when it comes to protecting those rights.

The sheep that god lost: ‘ legally’ circumventing the human rights of undocumented migrants in Turkey The world witnessed the forceful repulsion of undocumented migrants when the Turkish government unilaterally repealed the EU-Turkey Deal in the Spring of 2020 and opened its border to allow migrant...

📣 Grateful to see that my article “The sheep that God lost: Legally circumventing the human rights of undocumented migrants in Turkey” has now been published in an issue of the Southeast European and Black Sea Studies journal.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

📘 We hope the UWMIT dataset opens up new research avenues on treaty design, compliance, regime durability & global governance.

🧾 Article link: brill.com/view/journal...
🔍 Supported by TÜBİTAK3501 Grant 220K326
📬 Happy to discuss, collaborate, or share the dataset!

Sovereignty, domestic politics & economic interests have become key drivers of treaty exits, especially post-2005.
Examples:
🇬🇧 Brexit
🇺🇦🇬🇪 Exits from Russian-led agreements
📜 Non-compliance with international courts/tribunals in HR cases

🔎 Minilateral treaties (2–9 parties) are less likely to see unilateral withdrawals.
Though they make up 36% of MITs, they only account for 24% of all exits.

🕊️ Over 63% of withdrawals since 1991 occurred after 2001.
📈 This supports earlier work on the rising trend of unilateralism in global governance.
🌍 The UN Security Council P5 (just 5 out of 165 states) account for 11% of all unilateral exits in the dataset.

We introduce an original dataset of 945 unilateral withdrawals from 206 multilateral treaties since 1945. We identify 2broad categories of withdrawal reasons:
📘Regime-driven (e.g. Ineffectiveness) and 🏛State-driven (e.g. NationalSecurity,Sovereignty,Economic interests)

🚨 Excited to share our new article w/Murat Bayar "Unilateral Withdrawals from Multilateral International Treaties, 1945–2024" published in Global Governance. 🔗https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/31/2/article-p163_3.xml?ebody=full%20html-copy1

Early Career Development Group call for new members. Deadline for applications: 26 May 2025. The Early Career Development (ECD) group of the EISA is looking for three new members to join the already existing group. The position is for a two-year term, on a voluntary basis. Please refer to the EISA-NET.org for more information.

📣 EISA's Early Career Development group is looking for three new members!

🔗 Read more about the roles here, and apply by 26 May 2025: bit.ly/4jMy6Uj

US-Iran hold indirect talks in Oman. Tehran signals readiness: Hezbollah pulls back, replaced by Lebanese army. Both sides say talks were “positive.” A new Trump deal may echo the old: ballistic missiles likely remain off-limits. Still, diplomacy is alive.

Yemen’s Houthis say latest US air strikes kill at least four in Sanaa The strikes targeting the capital hit a home and wound more than 20 other people, according to Houthi authorities.

The recent actions of Israel and the United States, along with the U.S. decision to deploy additional forces to the Middle East, suggest that Iran should also expect developments in Iraq. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

Dear EISA Folks!
I am standing for election to the Governing Board of the European International Studies Association.
@europeanisa.bsky.social
🗳️You can see the list of candidates and vote until April 21:
eisa-net.org/eisa-board-e...