The newly signed Mecca Joint Defense Agreement was deemed a landmark trilateral pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, but what are the true implications? These Quick Takes examine the agree...

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted the launch of 'Turkey and the Liberal International Order', a new book examining Turkey’s complex and evolving relationship with the liberal international order from

This article examines how Turkey and Hungary cooperated to contest norms of the Liberal International Order (LIO) between 2013 and 2025. Drawing on the content analysis of semi-structured interview...

On this week’s Unpacking Europe podcast, the CER’s Clara Marina O’Donnell fellow (2025-2026) Thomas Maddock sat down with Galip Dalay, Senior Consulting Fellow, Turkey Initiative, Middle East...

On this week’s Unpacking Europe podcast, the CER’s Clara Marina O’Donnell fellow (2025-2026) Thomas Maddock sat down with Galip Dalay, Senior Consulting Fellow, Turkey Initiative, Middle East...

ECPR Webinars on Middle Eastern Policy and EU Relations

ECPR Webinars on Middle Eastern Policy and EU Relations

ECPR Webinars on Middle Eastern Policy and EU Relations

The recent conflict in Iran is having significant economic, diplomatic, and security repercussions around the world. In this collection, experts from a range of middle power countries examine how deve...

ECPR Webinars on Middle Eastern Policy and EU Relations

International politics is often conducted in two languages or more, and since no two languages are exactly the same, what is possible to say in one language may be impossible to say in another. Transl...

Demokratik gerileme, dünyanın pek çok bölgesinde siyaseti ve toplumsal yaşamı dönüştürürken, bu dönüşümün en kırılgan alanlarından birini üniversiteler oluşturuyor. Akademik özgürlükler nasıl hedef al...

In populist competitive authoritarian regimes, the distinction between the domestic and the foreign has become increasingly more porous. Yet we have limited knowledge about how populist politicians...

Turkey Book Talk #257 – Senem Aydın-Düzgit, professor of international relations at Sabanci University and director of the Istanbul Policy Centre, on her article “Foreign Policy as Domestic P…

Turkey Book Talk #257 – Senem Aydın-Düzgit, professor of international relations at Sabanci University and director of the Istanbul Policy Centre, on her article “Foreign Policy as Domestic P…

Senem Aydın-Düzgit shows how Russia’s war against Ukraine strengthened the domestic legitimacy of regimes in Hungary and Turkey.

In populist competitive authoritarian regimes, the distinction between the domestic and the foreign has become increasingly more porous. Yet we have limited knowledge about how populist politicians...

26 Eylül Cuma, İPM Karaköy

Abstract. This forum critically reflects on the democracy support agenda and its future in light of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the decline of Western po

The European Union (EU) has recently faced consecutive, sudden and unexpected challenges of a large magnitude, such as the migration crisis, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine. Through an analysis of tw...

This article sheds light on how Germany exercises its power in the EU and the wider European neighbourhood, and on the type of actor that it is evolving into. To that end, drawing on semi-structure...

Turkey has plunged into turmoil after authorities arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, President Erdoğan's strongest opponent, on charges of corruption. Mass protests, the largest in over a decade,...

Responses to US power in a fracturing world

Turkey has plunged into turmoil after authorities arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, President Erdoğan's strongest opponent, on charges of corruption. Mass protests, the largest in over a decade,...

On March 19, Turkish authorities arrested opposition leader and Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on charges of corruption. Really, it was a drive by President Erdoğan to eliminate his main political…

YouTube video by Istanbul Policy Center

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Senem Aydin-Düzgit, and Jeffrey Isaac join Mark Frazier in a discussion of creeping authoritarianism in democratic regimes in India, Turkey, and the United States