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I am a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University and Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Istanbul Policy Center. I am currently based at the Harvard Kennedy School as the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor of Public Policy. I am also a non-resident fellow at the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. In 2023-2024, I was based at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin as a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow.
My main research interests include identity, history, and discourse in the study of international politics, with an empirical focus on European and Turkish foreign policies; and more recently, the nexus between domestic and foreign policies of middle powers in the changing international order. I have also conducted research and published in the field of international democracy support, both in the context of European foreign policy through enlargement and Turkish foreign policy. I hold a Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from Boğaziçi University.
My articles have appeared in many of the leading journals in international relations and European politics, including the European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Democracy, International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, and West European Politics. I am the author of Turkey and the European Union (with Nathalie Tocci) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Constructions of European Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; Turkish edition 2015).
I am a a council member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE), a member of the Carnegie Rising Democracies Network, and an academic advisory board member of the Institüt für Europaische Politik. I also serve as the co-editor of the Future of Europe book series (Springer) and sit on the editorial boards of the following journals: Journal of European Integration, Journal of Language and Politics, South European Society and Politics, New Perspectives on Turkey. I was awarded the Young Scientist Award of Turkey’s Science Academy (BAGEP) in 2014.
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