Senem Aydın-Düzgit

Interlingual Relations International politics is often conducted in two languages or more, and since no two languages are exactly the same, what is possible to say in one language may be impossible to say in another. Transl...

First publication of the year is now out! An edited volume on Interlingual Relations from the Univ. of Michigan Press with a chapter with Bahar Rumelili on “Transversing Civilizational Hierarchies? The Introduction of Latin Alphabet in Turkey”. And it is open access! press.umich.edu/Books/I/Inte...

Bilim Akademisi Paneli: Türkiye’de ve Dünyada Akademik Özgürlükler - Bilim Akademisi Demokratik gerileme, dünyanın pek çok bölgesinde siyaseti ve toplumsal yaşamı dönüştürürken, bu dönüşümün en kırılgan alanlarından birini üniversiteler oluşturuyor. Akademik özgürlükler nasıl hedef al...

Bilim Akademisi etkinlikleri “Türkiye’de ve Dünyada Akademik Özgürlükler” başlıklı panelle devam ediyor.

Senem Aydın Düzgit, Şebnem Gümüşçü ve Berk Esen bizimle olacak.
@berkesen.bsky.social @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social

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"Democracy does deliver," Director of Istanbul Policy Center @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social highlights at the #EPCAnnualConference. Data and science show that democratic societies deliver better health, better education, better economy...

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

Foreign policy as domestic politics in populist competitive authoritarianism: the case of the May 2023 elections in Turkey In populist competitive authoritarian regimes, the distinction between the domestic and the foreign has become increasingly more porous. Yet we have limited knowledge about how populist politicians...

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
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Senem Aydın-Düzgit on foreign policy weaponisation in Turkish domestic politics Turkey Book Talk #257 – Senem Aydın-Düzgit, professor of international relations at Sabanci University and director of the Istanbul Policy Centre, on her article “Foreign Policy as Domestic P…

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@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

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Senem Aydın-Düzgit on foreign policy weaponisation in Turkish domestic politics Turkey Book Talk #257 – Senem Aydın-Düzgit, professor of international relations at Sabanci University and director of the Istanbul Policy Centre, on her article “Foreign Policy as Domestic P…

Latest episode, from last week 📌📌

Senem Aydın-Düzgit (@senemaydndzgit.bsky.social) on the weaponisation of foreign policy in Turkey's domestic politics

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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

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

How International Crises Help Authoritarians Senem Aydın-Düzgit shows how Russia’s war against Ukraine strengthened the domestic legitimacy of regimes in Hungary and Turkey.

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

Foreign policy as domestic politics in populist competitive authoritarianism: the case of the May 2023 elections in Turkey In populist competitive authoritarian regimes, the distinction between the domestic and the foreign has become increasingly more porous. Yet we have limited knowledge about how populist politicians...

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

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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 26 Eylül Cuma, İPM Karaköy

"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
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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

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

Forum: Global Perspectives on Democracy Support in Light of the Wars in Gaza and Ukraine Abstract. This forum critically reflects on the democracy support agenda and its future in light of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the decline of Western po

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

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More to follow soon, as the international is increasingly becoming a key enabling factor in authoritarian resilience globally

And more recently, where Europe and more specifically Germany, stands in all of this, in German Politics

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A later piece on the role of regime security in foreign policies of authoritarian middle powers in International Affairs

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This ties in with three earlier works: one on crisis and Erdogan’s 2023 electoral victory in Journal of Democracy

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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

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"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
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"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"
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- @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

Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises - Comparative European Politics The European Union (EU) has recently faced consecutive, sudden and unexpected challenges of a large magnitude, such as the migration crisis, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine. Through an analysis of tw...

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!

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Germany and Rule of Law Support in Turkey: A Status Quo Power? This article sheds light on how Germany exercises its power in the EU and the wider European neighbourhood, and on the type of actor that it is evolving into. To that end, drawing on semi-structure...

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👇

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