Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders | NEW BOOK
(Cambridge University Press) How would the history of international relations in ‘the East’ be written if we did not always read the ending – the Rise of the West and…
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Congratulations to 2019 ISA Award Winners Mikhail Alexseev, Sufian Zhemukhov, and Ayse Zarakol
The International Studies Association gave the Religion and International Relations Book Award to Mikhail Alexseev and Sufian Zhemukhov for their book, Mass Religious Ritual and Intergroup Tolerance: The Muslim Pilgrims’ Paradox…
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose? Maybe not any more (ISA Dispatch 3/3)
The International Studies Association (ISA) convention theme this year was “Understanding Change in World Politics.” The theme is set every year by the president and program chairs in an attempt…
Russia and NATO (ISA Dispatch 2/3)
I was part of six panels at the International Studies Association (ISA) convention. One of the more interesting ones was on Russia and NATO. It was organized by Kimberly Marten…
Academic Conferences in an Era of Populist Nationalism (ISA Dispatch 1/3)
The International Studies Association (ISA) Convention is held annually in a different North American city every year, almost always in the United States. This year’s conference was held in Baltimore February 21-25.…
Assassination of an Ambassador
(LRB Blog) At 7.05 p.m. Turkish time yesterday, the Russian ambassador, Andrei Karlov, was shot dead in an Ankara art gallery, while visiting an exhibition entitled Russia through Turkish Eyes. The assassin,…
Turkey and Russia, Erdoğan and Putin
(PONARS Policy Memo) By the summer of 2016, it had become relatively commonplace in Western policy circles to wonder if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was following in the footsteps…
IR discipline in Turkey and beyond
(Changing Turkey) The deficiencies in Turkish IR literature mirror the deficiencies of the broader IR literature. IR is still an American dominated field. Until recently, American IR was characterised by what…
Turkey through the Looking Glass
(LRB blog) Since the failed coup attempt on 15 July, two distinct narratives about Turkey have emerged. Talking to Turks and non-Turks about the coup increasingly resembles travelling between parallel universes.…
The Failed Coup Attempt in Turkey: What We Know So Far
(PONARS Policy Memo) It seemed a normal Friday night, as much as one could speak of normalcy in Turkey these days, given the developments of the past year, from the numerous…