Title: Public Preferences, Gender, and Foreign Support for Armed Movements Date and Time:  February 2, Monday, 2026, 12:30-13:30 Venue: A130 Seminar Room, FEASS Speaker: Çağlayan Başer (Bilkent University)

Title: US Intervention in Venezuela: Implications for Venezuela, the Americas, and the International Order Date and Time: January 27, Tuesday,  12:30-14:00 Venue: A130 Seminar Room, FEASS Speakers: Tudor Onea, Esra Çuhadar, Crystal Whetstone – Bilkent University

Çağlayan Başer’s book “Public Preferences, Gender, and Foreign Support for Armed Movements” was published by Cambridge University Press Element Series in Gender and Politics.

“Assoc. Prof. Efe Tokdemir, of the Department of International Relations, has been awarded the highly competitive ERC-2025 Consolidator Grant for his groundbreaking project COUNSTER. The project aims to explain why, how, and when governments target the constituents of non-state armed actors (NSAAs) and what determines the success or failure of these government-constituency relations as a…

The book “The Rise and Relapse of European Human Rights in Turkey,” written by Tuğba Bayar, was published by CEU Press.

The book “Kızıl Yıldız: Sovyetler Birliği Tarihi,” co-authored by Onur İşçi and Samuel J. Hirst, was published by Kronik Kitap.

Sam Hirst’s book “Against the Liberal Order” has won the European International History Prize (formerly the George Louis Beer Prize) from the American Historical Association (AHA).