Title: Capacity, Lords and the Limits of Iron Fist Development (joint work with Pablo Beramendi and Berfin Baydar) Speaker: Aslı Cansunar (University of Washington) Date and Time: 29 April 2026, Wednesday, 12:30-13:30 Place: A130 Seminar Room

“For the 2023–24 academic year, the Kalbiye Tansel Best PhD Thesis Award was presented to Buse Düveroğlu (International Relations) for her dissertation “Unveiling the Process Behind Counterinsurgency: Three Essays on the Impact of Leadership, Group and Societal Dynamics on Policymaking,” supervised by Assoc. Prof. Efe Tokdemir.” Bilkent News

2026 Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanı (BAGEP) Ödülü’ne layık görülen Çağlayan Başer hocamızı tebrik ediyoruz.

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…