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This is an excellent article. Highly recommended!

While my recent book is *not* about Turkey, it contains a few pages of rumination. It can also serve as a brief teaser for a book on Turkey I (finally, after opining War on the Rocks for almost a decade) will finalize next year, tentatively titled “Quest for Greatness.”

Publication day 📚Check out my new paper with Victor Asal in the JournalofGlobSecStud 👇

I’m very excited to share that my second book - “Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes U.S. Foreign Policy” - is officially forthcoming with @OUPPolitics. Keep an eye out for it in the summer 2025!

6+ years ago, I made a simple argument War on the Rocks: While Turkey experts systematically belittle, ignore & make fun of Devlet Bahçeli (Devletto Bahchiavelli?), he is *something else* & a key player (Reis-maker?) whom we, collectively, barely understand. warontherocks.com/2018/07/the-ye…

My new article, 'In Search of the Unicorn:The Magical, the Imaginary and the Spatio-Temporal Ordering of Knowledge', now published in Millennium Journal journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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📌 The new issue of Nationalities Papers [52.5] is now online cambridge.org/core/journals/… Cover photo: Véronique Labonté Keep reading, keep citing ASN Cambridge Core

It's nearly a book! Excited to go through the proofs and to see my book in print in February

We are starting off strong in November with FIVE new research articles published online already! Remember that all of our articles, including our archives, are available on our website 👇 buff.ly/3SH0rzR

It's publication week! Influence Without Arms: The New Logic of Deterrence is now available with Cambridge University Press - Politics: cambridge.org/9781108824071. The book examines the role of nuclear technology in international relations.

This report concludes a terrific academic journey, while paving way for many interesting ones with my brilliant colleagues, Serhat Güvenç, Çağlar Kurç, and Sıtkı Egeli. Kudos to Tom W and all IISS News Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research teams for their support, efforts and team spirit.

🚨1 week till my book on misinformation in war and who believes it is officially out! 🎉

We are seeking a post-doctoral fellow! Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled, with a deadline of December 15. More details here: foreignpolicyandpeace.org/index.php/en/2…… #Postdoc #Research #AcademicJob

Over the years, War on the Rocks has published a great deal on the Syrian Civil War. Many of those articles and podcasts are listed here, organized by category, for those of you seeking to learn more about this conflict that burst back onto the front page warontherocks.com/understanding-…

As a student of strategy, the dream show: The Peloponnesian War, written by Taylor Sheridan, Paramount+. First season ends with the deaths of Brasidas & Cleon in battle. Post-credit scenes will introduce Alcibiades & his plans for Argos. Sheridan plays a muscled-up Thucydides

Excellent list, as always. My contribution (to the list of recommendations) for this holiday season: 1) Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe by Gerard Toal 2) On Wars, by Michael Mann

Two PhD scholarships at the University College, Dublin 1. sociology: ucd.ie/sociology/news… UCD_School_of_Sociology_PhD_Scholarship.pdf 2. politics and IR: ucd.ie/spire/study/pr…

An interesting essay Martha Finnemore & Alexander Wendt, "When 'Old' Constructivism Was New: Reflections on Classical Constructivism," Perspectives on Politics (2024) bit.ly/4fGWBzZ

Does Erdoğan’s Turkey actually have a “grand strategy”? It does. What’s more interesting is: What are Turkey’s “grand” policy objectives? These objectives are neither “Westphalian,” nor “archaic”; they’re essentially & deliberately “post-modern.” Hope to elaborate on this soon.