This thoughtful thread by Timur Kuran gets us much, but not all, of the way there. I find it naïve in 2 respects: how sharply it separates speech from 1) disruption and 2) violence (1/6)

Our Routledge Handbook of Turkey's Diasporas now has a digital presence and a wonderful cover (thank you for the original artwork, Dr Can T. Yalçınkaya!) Available for pre-order in July, out in August. Stay tuned! routledge.com/Routledge-Hand… Routledge Books

We've seen heated debates how the Turkish opposition triumphed in 2024 local elections. In The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR, among all other hypotheses, Sultan Tepe and I argue that it was the 'shift from alliance to party-centered competition' that mattered most. theloop.ecpr.eu/opposition-tri…

We need statesmanship, not gamesmanship.
#MiddleEast

Do not miss our traditional almanac- bringing together a large range of intl issues w a women’s perspective! All voluntary and contributions, celebrating #womeninforeignpolicy womeninfp.org/en/almanak

Iyi bayramlar!
👉 Şebnem Yardımcı Geyikçi ile Türkiye ve Macaristan'ı karşılaştırdığımız 'Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy' makalesi, Nisan sonuna kadar açık erişimde!
👉 Our article, 'Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy..' is free to view until the end of April 2024!

New article with Mustafa Kutlay on Turkish elections of May 2023. Governance crises and resilience of authoritarian populism: 2023 Turkish elections from the perspective of Hirschman’s ‘exit, voice, and loyalty’ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#SummerProgram The Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Language Institute (MEDLI) at the University of Wisconsin - Madison allows students to earn 8 academic credits in just 8 weeks of summer study. mesana.org/resources-and-…

My article 'Right-wing populism in Turkey and the 2023 elections' is published now. 50 free copies are available here: tandfonline.com/eprint/ZPTICRW… Southeast European & Black Sea Studies

📣Happening now! Because only one panel on leaders was not enough, we are now attending “Leaders in context II” Great articles by our fantastic colleagues Sercan Canbolat
Kai Opperman Özgür Özdamar Juliet Kaarbo
Stephan Fouquet, Michael Young & Ryan Beasley. Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA #ISA2024

My article on Analysis of City Diplomacy of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality under the Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu published in the book entitled Reclaiming Democracy in Cities, edited by Gülçin B. Coşkun, Tuba İ. Çekiç and Ertuğ Tombuç, Routledge.

Şebnem and I analyzed Turkey's 2024 local elections and their political implications for the Journal of Democracy.
Şebnem Gümüşçü ile birlikte Journal of Democracy için 2024 yerel seçimlerini ve sonuçlarını analiz eden bir makale kaleme aldık. Sebnem Gumuscu Journal of Democracy

Dreams do come true! It fills us (⁦Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe⁩) w immense pride to see our book included @ #ISA2024 ’s Book Exhibition. Heartfelt thanks to our contributors whose invaluable work inspires us as we embark on the second volume, featuring another all-women panel of scholars.

An all-women panel on the future of Turkish democracy! From one woman to all who make us reflect, rethink & reconsider while remaining cautiously optimistic about a more peaceful and prosperous future… thank you! This was one of the greatest panels at this year’s #ISA2024

Great discussions on Turkish Foreign Policy at the UİK roundtables ISA
Özgür Özdamar Alp Ozerdem Binnur Haldun Yalçınkaya Balkan Devlen Lenore G Martin #MeltemMuftulerBac

JournalofGlobSecStud best paper award #ISA2024 went to twitterless Mayesha Alam and Elisabeth Jean Wood. You can read it here:
academic.oup.com/jogss/article-…

RTE is no longer a populist leader, although he may still be popular. Voters finally made it clear that they see AKP as an establishment party, making the populist rhetoric the AKP candidates/leaders used ineffectual. Let’s hope
this’s a promising start to a new era in Türkiye.

Today we’ve lost a giant and a visionary: Prof. Daniel Kahneman has passed at the age of 90. The Princeton SPIA community shares our condolences with his family and all who knew him, learned from him, and loved him. bit.ly/4cy0arM

IR Book of the Week!

'The Insider's Game' by Elizabeth N. Saunders. Do leaders matter? Sure, but maybe not as much as those who advise them. Explores the influence of 'elites' (advisers, military & elected officials) on US Presidential decisions to use force.
amazon.com/Insiders-Game-…

My new article with Michael Shkolnik is out!
Crossing Battle Death Lines: Why Do Some Insurgent Organizations Escalate Violence to Higher-Intensity Armed Conflicts?
There are 50 free pdfs that can be downloaded at the link below. Let me know what you think!

tandfonline.com/eprint/FBSUGKH…