We are proud to congratulate all the graduates from the Bilkent University’s Department of International Relations!

Our faculty member Efe Tokdemir and his co-authors Aslı Cansunar and Arzu Kıbrıs have won the APSA MENA Section’s Best Paper Award for 2025 with their paper titled “Ethnic cues and conflict-triggered harassment: Evidence from soccer fields”. Congratulations!

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

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’…

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

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…

Against the Liberal Order, Bilkent IR faculty member Dr. Samuel J. Hirst’s book has been awarded the ASEEES Marshall Shulman Book Prize.