“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

“Bilkent Üniversitesi Ekonomi ve Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü (ESBE) yüksek lisans ve doktora programlarını Online Open House etkinliğimizde keşfet! 📅 25 Nisan 2026🕚 10.30-11.30📲 Kayıt için QR kodunu tarayabilirsin. – Explore the Masters and PhD programs of Bilkent University’s Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences (ESBE) at our Online Open House event! 📅 April 25,…

Title: Global Economic Governance in Contest: UNCITRAL and the Multilateral Politics of ISDS Reform Speaker: Julia Calvert (University of Edinburgh) Date and Time: 9 April 2026, Thursday, 12:30-13:30 Place: A130 Seminar Room

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

Title: Why Election Boycotts May Not Be A Bad Idea ? (with Jesper Bjarnesen and Gudlaug Olafsdottir) Speaker: Sebastian van Baalen (Uppsala University) Date and Time: 30 March 2026, Monday, 12:30-13:30 Place: A130 Seminar Room

Title: Kızıl Yıldız: Sovyetler Birliği Tarihi Speaker: Samuel J. Hirst (Bilkent University) & Onur İşçi (Boğaziçi University) Date and Time: 6 March 2026, Friday, 12:30-13:30 Place: A130 Seminar Room

Title: “Uluslararası İlişkilerde Güncel Gelişmeler: ABD, İsrail, İran Çatışması” (Türkçe) Speaker: Tuğba Bayar, Seçkin Köstem, Efe Tokdemir, Ömer Zarplı (Bilkent University) Date and Time: 4 March 2026, Wednesday, 16:30 Place: A130 Seminar Room

Title: Countering Insurgency / Terrorism: Severing the Ties Between Non-State Armed Actors & Their Constituency Date: February 25, 2026, 12:30-13:20 Place: Main Campus Library, Art Gallery Speaker: Efe Tokdemir (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…