Pathways for Global IR: A Debate Date: October 2, 2024, Wednesday Time: 12:30 pm Place: FEASS A-130 Speakers: Ayşe Zarakol Ersel Aydınlı Moderator: Seçkin Köstem

Bilkent University is a beneficiary of “International Dimensions and Effects of Populism (IDEoPOP),” a HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01-01 project funded with over € 2.4 million. Thirteen partners participate in this project that is coordinated by Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany. Prof. Pınar Bilgin from the Department of International Relations and Political Science and Public Administration is leading the training…

Oxford University Press has published Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939, a monograph by Asst. Prof. Sam Hirst of the Department of International Relations. Drawing on extensive archival research conducted in multiple countries, the book presents a novel interpretation of international relations in the interwar period. Whilst the Kemalists’…

Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) Pınar Bilgin & Karen Smith This book asks what it means to think globally about world politics. In an attempt to contextualise the recent ‘globalising ‘turn’ in International Relations (IR), the book takes stock of 30 plus years of efforts at addressing IR’s Eurocentric…

X. Uluslararası İlişkiler Çalışmalar kongresinde hocamız Doç. Dr. Efe Tokdemir 2024 Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi (UİK) Teşvik Ödülü’nü aldı. Post-doc araştırmacımız Firuze Simay Sezgin Namlı ise 2024 UİK Doktora Tez Ödülü aldı.

“Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy,” a recent book coauthored by Assoc. Prof. Özgür Özdamar and Dr. Sercan Canbolat (IR’2014 MA graduate), was awarded the “Best Book in Foreign Policy Analysis” prize by the International Studies Association (ISA).  Published by Cambridge University Press, the book explores the study…

On October 9, the Department of International Relations, in cooperation with Ankara Policy Center and the Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, held a conference titled “Turkish Foreign Policy on the 100th Anniversary of the Republic: A Reckoning and the Future.” The conference, held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the…

The Department of International Relations organized an event in June to honor Prof. Ali Karaosmanoğlu, who served as chair of the department from 1988 to 2007. During the event, Prof. Karaosmanoğlu, Rector Kürşat Aydoğan, FEASS Dean Refet Gürkaynak, Prof. Ersel Aydınlı and IR Department Chair Özgür Özdamar gave speeches. Prof. Karaosmanoğlu expressed his gratitude to…