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Ulaş Erdoğdu

@ulaserdogdu.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate at Northwestern @polisciatnu.bsky.social. IEL'13, Boğaziçi Politika. Researching political violence, political order, civil wars, contentious politics.

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counster.bsky.social @counster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pleased to share that @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social's article was shortlisted for the Cedric Smith Prize, which recognizes outstanding peace and conflict research by a PhD candidate 🎉 Ulaş's article, published in Review of International Studies, is available open access here doi.org/10.1017/S026...
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Leadership decapitation in civil war: Leadership arrest and the negotiations between the state and the insurgents | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Leadership decapitation in civil war: Leadership arrest and the negotiations between the state and the insurgents
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counster.bsky.social @counster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our PI @efetokdemir.bsky.social and predoc fellow @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social attended the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference at the University of Glasgow on 9–10 Sept. They presented their ongoing work on foreign policy and public opinion, and rebel social origins and dynamics of civil war.
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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 15/09/2026
How do different forms of repression operate together, and how do these measures shape public attitudes? Drawing on evidence from Turkey, Buffett Research Fellow Ulaş Erdoğdu (@polisciatnu.bsky.social) co-authored research seeking to answer this question. Read: academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
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counster.bsky.social @counster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
👋 Meet @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social , pre-doctoral researcher. A PhD candidate in Political Science at Northwestern, Ulaş studies political violence, civil wars & social science methodology. On COUNSTER, he brings deep expertise in conflict data & multi-method design. See our website for details!
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Ulaş Erdoğdu @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy to announce that our new article with Mert Arslanalp and @tdenizerkmen.bsky.social , “Do protest bans make police repression more acceptable? Experimental evidence on the effects of legal repression from Turkey,” is now published in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/jopr...
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Do protest bans make police repression more acceptable? Experimental evidence on the effects of legal repression from Turkey
Abstract. In explaining whether protest repression incites or suppresses mobilization, research on the repression–dissent nexus has underlined the importan
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Ulaş Erdoğdu @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Happy to share that my article, “Leadership Decapitation in Civil War: Leadership Arrest and Negotiations between the State and Insurgents,” was shortlisted for the 2026 Cedric Smith Prize. You can read the article open access here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
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Leadership decapitation in civil war: Leadership arrest and the negotiations between the state and the insurgents | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Leadership decapitation in civil war: Leadership arrest and the negotiations between the state and the insurgents
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Ulaş Erdoğdu @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
My reflections on using AI for qualitative comparative political science: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲?: 𝗔 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 www.linkedin.com/posts/ula%C5...
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𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲?: 𝗔 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 There’s been a lot… | Ulaş Erdoğdu
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲?: 𝗔 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 There’s been a lot of talk recently about using AI tools in quantitative social science, with some fol...
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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Applications for the Keyman Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop Spring 2026 are open until February 20. For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/.../early-ca....
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Ulaş Erdoğdu @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Although arrest of a sitting president isn’t the same as arrest of an armed group leader, my work on leadership decapitation has some parallels for thinking through Maduro's arrest/kidnapping by the US since arrest shapes incentives and bargaining dynamics doi.org/10.1017/S026....
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Leadership decapitation in civil war: Leadership arrest and the negotiations between the state and the insurgents | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Leadership decapitation in civil war: Leadership arrest and the negotiations between the state and the insurgents
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Ulaş Erdoğdu @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Ruşen Çakır'la @rusencakir.bsky.social süreç üzerine keyifli bir sohbet yaptık. Sürecin başarıya ulaşma ihtimalini arttıran faktörleri, başarısızlıkla sonuçlanmasını neden daha olası gördüğümü ve başarılı olursa bile demokratikleşme getirme ihtimalini neden düşük gördüğümü anlattım.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
'Leadership decapitation in civil war: Leadership arrest and the negotiations between the state and the insurgents.' @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org 📚 @risjnl.bsky.social #openaccess article by @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social out NOW 🎉 Read Ulaş's key arguments 👉 buff.ly/0rLXs9e DOI 👉 buff.ly/Z3NPCdV
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Leadership decapitation in civil war: Leadership arrest and the negotiations between the state and the insurgents.
Ulaş Erdoğdu discusses the key points from his new Review of International Studies article.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 21/07/2025
#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Leadership decapitation in civil war: Leadership arrest and the negotiations between the state and the insurgents - cup.org/4kI3i7j - @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social #FirstView
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Ulaş Erdoğdu @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Excited and honored that my paper Nearly Realized Cases received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Kendra Koivu Paper Award from @apsa.bsky.social’s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section. Grateful to be recognized by a section central to my work and my department @polisciatnu.bsky.social!
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Ulaş Erdoğdu @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I’m happy to share that my article, Democratization, Foreign Military Intervention, and Rebel Fragmentation in Civil War: Evidence from the PKK Insurgency in Turkey, has won the Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies, given by the Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida
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Ulaş Erdoğdu @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My first post here! Check out my recently published and very first solo-authored article on how democratization and foreign military intervention can result in rebel fragmentation in Journal of Global Security Studies. @polviolencepapers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
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Democratization, Foreign Military Intervention, and Rebel Fragmentation in Civil War: Evidence from the PKK Insurgency in Turkey
Abstract. In this paper, by studying the fragmentation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in 2004, I identify two distinct pathways to rebel fragmentati
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Ulaş Erdoğdu @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My first post here! Check out my recently published and very first solo-authored article on how democratization and foreign military intervention can result in rebel fragmentation in Journal of Global Security Studies. @polviolencepapers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
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Democratization, Foreign Military Intervention, and Rebel Fragmentation in Civil War: Evidence from the PKK Insurgency in Turkey
Abstract. In this paper, by studying the fragmentation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in 2004, I identify two distinct pathways to rebel fragmentati
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