About
EZGİ UZUN, DR.
Sabanci University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Orhanlı – Tuzla, 34956 Istanbul / Turkey
Ezgi Uzun, currently an instructor at Sabancı University, studies Iran’s foreign policy and security culture. Her wider research interests include the role of religion in international politics, transnational religious networks, religious insurgencies and popular mobilization forces in the Middle East with a geographical focus on Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Her doctoral dissertation examines Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” policy in the Middle East, with a specific focus on the Islamic Republic’s religious ideology and ties to transnational Shia networks in Iraq and Syria. Her previous research concentrated on Iran’s nuclear program. She uses a wide combination of qualitative methodologies in her research including field work in Iran, elite interviews, and discourse analysis.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2011 – 2019 Sabanci University, PhD Political Science
PhD Dissertation: ‘The Axis of Resistance’: The Role of Religion in Iranian Foreign Policy (thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Meltem Müftüler Baç)
2017 – 2018 Columbia University, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Visiting Research Scholar and TÜBITAK Fellow
2009 – 2011 Sabanci University, MA Political Science
MA Thesis: An Evaluation of the Iranian Nuclear Program from a Power Transition Perspective (thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Meltem Müftüler Baç)
2007 – 2008 Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, German As Foreign Language & English Studies
2004 – 2009 Bogazici University, BA Translation and Interpreting Studies
PUBLICATIONS
Tağma, Halit Mustafa Emin, Meltem Müftüler-Baç and Ezgi Uzun. ‘NATO, Turkey, and the missile defense system: a utilitarian and path dependent explanation of an entrenching alliance.’ Uluslararasi İlişkiler Dergisi 10 (35) 2012 (SSCI)
Tağma, Halit Mustafa Emin, and Ezgi Uzun. ‘Bureaucrats, Ayatollahs and Persian Politics: Explaining the Shift in Iranian Nuclear Policy.’ The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 24 (2) June 2012: 239?264.url: http://www.kida.re.kr/data/kjda/07_Halit_Mustafa_Tagma.pdf (SSCI)
NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Uzun, Ezgi. “Iran’s Axis of Resistance Policy and Its Regional Implications.” Global Relations Forum Policy Analyses Series (forthcoming 2019)
Uzun, Ezgi. “İran’ın Öfkesi Neden Hizipler üstüydü?” Gazete Duvar, January 2018.
Uzun, Ezgi. ‘Fars İlini Nasıl Bilirdiniz?’ Genç Girişim Dergisi, February 2017.
GRANTS/AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2017 TUBITAK 2214-A International Visiting Scholarship Grant for pre-doctoral research visit at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA
2015 Summer school funding for Persian Language and Literature by Saadi Foundation of Iran co-organized with Shahid Beheshti University
2012 Honorarium for the publication ‘Bureaucrats, Ayatollahs and Persian Politics: Explaining the Shift in Iranian Nuclear Policy?’ (coauthored with Halit Mustafa Tağma) by The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 2012
2012 Honorarium for best policy analysis titled ‘Emerging Actors of Foreign-Policy: The Roles of Think-Tanks in the Turkish-Armenşan Rapprochement Process,’ Eurasia Partnership Foundation
2004 Scholarship from the Council of Higher Education in Turkey, for students who ranked in top 100 in the Central University Entrance Exam (ÖSS)
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & TALKS
Uzun, Ezgi. ‘Iran’s Axis of Resistance Policy and Its Regional Implications.’ Bilkent University, Peace Talks Series, April 2018.
Uzun, Ezgi. ‘From Alliance to Order: Iran’s Axis of Resistance Policy towards the Middle East.’ Northeast Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, USA, November 2017.
Uzun, Ezgi. ‘Decoding the Islamic State: Roots, Structure, and Implications of ISIS.’ German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) Alumni Conference, Berlin, Germany, 2014.
Uzun, Ezgi. ‘Iranian Nuclear Program from a Power Transition Perspective.’ Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 2014.
Hatipoglu, Emre; Osman Zeki Gokce and Ezgi Uzun. ‘Authoritarian Regimes and The Risk of Civil War Onset: On an Isthmus or an Archipelago?’ Eurasia Peace Science Society Conference, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013.
Uzun, Ezgi and Can Zeynep Sungur. ‘The Linkage between the Global and the Societal: Turkey’s Foreign Policy Activism in the Middle East.’ International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2012.
LANGUAGES
Turkish (native), English, German, French, Persian