"Barışın kaybedeni olmaz" demişti, değerli Sırrı Süreyya. Evet, bugün senin de yüreğini koyduğun çabaların ilk meyvesini aldık. Kaybeden olmadı, olmayacak. Hayırlı, uğurlu olsun. Emeği geçen herkese selam ve teşekkürlerimle...

📨 This week’s publication by Eda Ayaydin: “One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy: Geo-Epistemology in the #Arctic” ❄️ 🔗 Find the full #article, that is the final part of TAI’s Knowledge Production Series 2025, below! ⤵️ thearcticinstitute.org/one-must-imagi…

In this article, I analyze geo-epistemology, monopolies of knowledge, and spatial thinking in Arctic governance. In the end, I suggest reimagining knowledge and expertise, not just debating what counts as “relevant” epistemology. thearcticinstitute.org/one-must-imagi…

Check out TAI’s Andreas Raspotnik & Eda Ayaydın latest publication: “Outsider #Geopolitics: To Be, or Not to Be, in the #Arctic” ❄️🌎 🔗 Link to full article below! e-ir.info/2025/07/10/out…

They don’t recognise any sovereignty.

Nash! 🎸

Trump’s retreat from international forums and multilateral institutions has created a vacuum that other countries have been quick to fill. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/17/tru…

Great article in International Affairs on rainbow diplomacy: LGBTQI+ rights branded as Western virtue, then instrumentalized by states and corporates, what the authors call “homocolonialism.” academic.oup.com/ia/article/101…

💥New: Are #Turkey and #Russia enemies or friends? A. Erdi Öztürk (Ahmet Erdi Öztürk) & Eda Ayaydın (Eda Ayaydın) explain the two countries have a complex relationship that can best be understood as ambivalent & shaped by “adaptive opportunism” 🤝 ow.ly/lTg450Wxim5

My co-author Eda Ayaydın and I explore Turkey’s “adaptive opportunist” diplomacy with Russia in our latest piece for LSE. Ankara balances ties with Moscow and the West through short-term, regime-driven tactics—flexible, risky, and strategic.

A U.S. policy that isolates Russia has the potential to accelerate Sino-Russian coordination in the Arctic, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Eda Ayaydin argue. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/arc…

My latest in Foreign Policy co-written with Mershon Center visiting fellow Eda Ayaydın, what the US's new hardline foreign policy stance with Russia might mean for the Arctic, competition, cooperation, China, and more SHAFR Historians foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/arc…

Paris thinks it has found a way to remake the European Union in its own image. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/fra…

I wrote with Christopher Nichols @CMcKNichols.bsky.social on the U.S.’s new hardline approach toward Russia and why we think a strategy of selective cooperation in the Arctic would better serve long-term interests.

Retirement bucket list item.

Mershon postdoc visiting scholar, Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ researcher and University of London Institute in Paris teaching fellow Eda Ayaydın cowrote an essay exploring the complex relationship between Turkey and Russia for the London School of Economics. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…

Back from America and glad to take part in the US Foreign Policy Working Group at UCL, London; presenting our article in FP and discussing this era of renegotiation and redesign. bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

Register now for the BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group annual conference! 🌟 'US foreign policy in the post-unipolar world'🌎 Taking place 5 Sept UCL ft/ Christopher Nichols @CMcKNichols.bsky.social Afsah Qazi Inderjeet Parmar Eda Ayaydın Georg ‘Dr. Maverick’ Löfflmann Abhishank Mishra Imad Farhadi Tom Furse 🎉 Sign up here 👉 indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/569/

Fully prepared for the academic year.

EISA time of the year! Our panel will address critical perspectives on NATO–climate collaboration, drawing on hegemonic discourse, assemblages of actors and knowledge production that turn climate into a security problem. 28 August!