Beste İşleyen
@besteisleyen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Amsterdam
President (2023-2025) of the European International Studies Association (EISA)
Editor at International Political Sociology
Kiteboarder 🤙🏽
President (2023-2025) of the European International Studies Association (EISA)
Editor at International Political Sociology
Kiteboarder 🤙🏽
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📣 The Joint Management Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA are looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of ejir.bsky.social from 1 January 2027!
🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN
🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 AM
📣 The Joint Management Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA are looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of ejir.bsky.social from 1 January 2027!
🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN
🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN
Find me on LinkedIn!
October 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Find me on LinkedIn!
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🚨Job Alert 🚨
4 year pre-/post-doc position available at Erfurt, German required - IR/int. security (different specializations possible: intelligence, surveillance, migration, West Asia, North Africa, humanitarianism): jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/0...
4 year pre-/post-doc position available at Erfurt, German required - IR/int. security (different specializations possible: intelligence, surveillance, migration, West Asia, North Africa, humanitarianism): jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/0...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d)
An der Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt, Professur für Internationale Politik und Konfliktforschung ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt folgende Stelle im Umfang von 30 Wochenstu...
jobs.uni-erfurt.de
September 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🚨Job Alert 🚨
4 year pre-/post-doc position available at Erfurt, German required - IR/int. security (different specializations possible: intelligence, surveillance, migration, West Asia, North Africa, humanitarianism): jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/0...
4 year pre-/post-doc position available at Erfurt, German required - IR/int. security (different specializations possible: intelligence, surveillance, migration, West Asia, North Africa, humanitarianism): jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/0...
My recently published online-first article has a volume and issue number now:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Turkey #Syria #Kurds #counterinsurgency
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Turkey #Syria #Kurds #counterinsurgency
September 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My recently published online-first article has a volume and issue number now:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Turkey #Syria #Kurds #counterinsurgency
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Turkey #Syria #Kurds #counterinsurgency
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📣 The call for workshop proposals for #EWIS2026 in Izmir is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📣 The call for workshop proposals for #EWIS2026 in Izmir is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
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📣 We are very excited to share that the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026!
⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R
🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025
⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R
🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025
September 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
📣 We are very excited to share that the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026!
⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R
🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025
⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R
🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025
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1/4 #EISAPEC25 was a blast! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! It also marked the end of @besteisleyen.bsky.social term as @europeanisa.bsky.social President and of #JoanaRicarte's role as ECD portfolio holder. Thank you both for your unwavering support of the #EISAECD community ✨🚀
September 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
1/4 #EISAPEC25 was a blast! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! It also marked the end of @besteisleyen.bsky.social term as @europeanisa.bsky.social President and of #JoanaRicarte's role as ECD portfolio holder. Thank you both for your unwavering support of the #EISAECD community ✨🚀
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If my job didn’t also involve teaching incredible students with incredible colleagues like @martijndekker.bsky.social and @brunildapali.bsky.social then I think I’d just give up…
(The whole thread is excellent)
(The whole thread is excellent)
Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.
September 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
If my job didn’t also involve teaching incredible students with incredible colleagues like @martijndekker.bsky.social and @brunildapali.bsky.social then I think I’d just give up…
(The whole thread is excellent)
(The whole thread is excellent)
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Thank you Beste! Very happy to start my term as President of the @europeanisa.bsky.social here at #EISAPEC25
And my role as the President of the EISA has come to an end. Happy to pass it to Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Thank you Beste! Very happy to start my term as President of the @europeanisa.bsky.social here at #EISAPEC25
And my role as the President of the EISA has come to an end. Happy to pass it to Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
And my role as the President of the EISA has come to an end. Happy to pass it to Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social
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📣 Welcome to the three new members of our Early Career Development group: Franca Elena Kappes, Matteo Cianforlini, and Marion Foster! @ecdeisa.bsky.social
🔗 Learn more about how EISA creates opportunities for early career researchers: buff.ly/ORLijhW
🔗 Learn more about how EISA creates opportunities for early career researchers: buff.ly/ORLijhW
July 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📣 Welcome to the three new members of our Early Career Development group: Franca Elena Kappes, Matteo Cianforlini, and Marion Foster! @ecdeisa.bsky.social
🔗 Learn more about how EISA creates opportunities for early career researchers: buff.ly/ORLijhW
🔗 Learn more about how EISA creates opportunities for early career researchers: buff.ly/ORLijhW
My new article is out in Third World Quarterly:
‘Governing Kurds through Spatial Design: Turkey in Afrin’
It is open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@aissr.bsky.social
‘Governing Kurds through Spatial Design: Turkey in Afrin’
It is open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@aissr.bsky.social
Governing Kurds through spatial design: Turkey in Afrin
On 20 January 2018, Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch, which was a cross-border military operation conducted in the Syrian Kurdish majority city of Afrin (also called Afrîn/Efrîn). Lasting two...
www.tandfonline.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
My new article is out in Third World Quarterly:
‘Governing Kurds through Spatial Design: Turkey in Afrin’
It is open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@aissr.bsky.social
‘Governing Kurds through Spatial Design: Turkey in Afrin’
It is open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@aissr.bsky.social
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🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Postdoctoral Bridge Grants winners: Khaled Alosaimi, Paulo Victor Zaneratto Bittencourt, Silvia Carenzi, Merve Erdilmen, Yuliia Khyzhniak, Reda Mahajar, and Maro Pantazidou
🔗 Read more about their research: buff.ly/k7xfzmw
🔗 Read more about their research: buff.ly/k7xfzmw
July 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Postdoctoral Bridge Grants winners: Khaled Alosaimi, Paulo Victor Zaneratto Bittencourt, Silvia Carenzi, Merve Erdilmen, Yuliia Khyzhniak, Reda Mahajar, and Maro Pantazidou
🔗 Read more about their research: buff.ly/k7xfzmw
🔗 Read more about their research: buff.ly/k7xfzmw
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👏 As we wrap up another successful set of workshops, we are excited to share that #EWIS2026 will take place at the İzmir University of Economics, 1-3 July 2026!
👀 Keep an eye out over the coming months as we begin to share more details...
👀 Keep an eye out over the coming months as we begin to share more details...
July 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
👏 As we wrap up another successful set of workshops, we are excited to share that #EWIS2026 will take place at the İzmir University of Economics, 1-3 July 2026!
👀 Keep an eye out over the coming months as we begin to share more details...
👀 Keep an eye out over the coming months as we begin to share more details...
We have just finished this year’s European Workshops in International Studies.
Great organisation by our local host - the Jagiellonian University.
Thanks to all colleagues and student assistants for making #ewis2025 a big success.
See you next year in İzmir for #ewis2026!
Great organisation by our local host - the Jagiellonian University.
Thanks to all colleagues and student assistants for making #ewis2025 a big success.
See you next year in İzmir for #ewis2026!
🤝 Our President, Beste İşleyen, and EWIS Governing Board liaison, Magdalena Kozub-Karkut, meet with the Dean of the Faculty of International and Political Studies at Jagiellonian University, Piotr Bajor.
July 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🌟 After two successful plenary sessions and our welcome reception yesterday, we are excited to kick off day 2 of #EWIS2025 with our first workshop sessions!
July 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🌟 After two successful plenary sessions and our welcome reception yesterday, we are excited to kick off day 2 of #EWIS2025 with our first workshop sessions!
#EWIS2025 has kicked off!
Happy to announce İzmir University of Economics as #EWIS2026 location.
With Umut Can Adısönmez (co-chair) and Serhun Al (local host)
@europeanisa.bsky.social
Happy to announce İzmir University of Economics as #EWIS2026 location.
With Umut Can Adısönmez (co-chair) and Serhun Al (local host)
@europeanisa.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#EWIS2025 has kicked off!
Happy to announce İzmir University of Economics as #EWIS2026 location.
With Umut Can Adısönmez (co-chair) and Serhun Al (local host)
@europeanisa.bsky.social
Happy to announce İzmir University of Economics as #EWIS2026 location.
With Umut Can Adısönmez (co-chair) and Serhun Al (local host)
@europeanisa.bsky.social
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Greetings from #EWIS2025 where @europeanisa.bsky.social president @besteisleyen.bsky.social gives an overview of the grants EISA has been able to give out as part of our redistributive policies
July 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Greetings from #EWIS2025 where @europeanisa.bsky.social president @besteisleyen.bsky.social gives an overview of the grants EISA has been able to give out as part of our redistributive policies
Congrats to the recipients!
💸 We are pleased to announce the recipients of this year's Dissertation Fieldwork Support Grants: Matthew Broomfield, Esteban Octavio Scuzarello, Aaron Magunna, Lena Kempermann, and Thais Simoes Doria! Congratulations!
🔗 Read more here: bit.ly/3T5Z9Po
🔗 Read more here: bit.ly/3T5Z9Po
June 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Congrats to the recipients!
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👏 Congratulations to @mdgoede.bsky.social, Professor of Politics of Security Cultures, on her €2.5M @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant for her research 'Colonial Financial Infrastructures', exploring colonial roots of modern finance 💰
🔗 Read more: www.uva.nl/en/content/n...
🔗 Read more: www.uva.nl/en/content/n...
ERC Advanced Grants for six UvA researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded prestigious Advanced Grants to UvA academics particle physicist Gianfranco Bertone, astronomer Carsten Dominik, political scientist Marieke de Goede, lo...
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June 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
👏 Congratulations to @mdgoede.bsky.social, Professor of Politics of Security Cultures, on her €2.5M @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant for her research 'Colonial Financial Infrastructures', exploring colonial roots of modern finance 💰
🔗 Read more: www.uva.nl/en/content/n...
🔗 Read more: www.uva.nl/en/content/n...
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We've been thrilled by the strong interest in the three open positions within the @europeanisa.bsky.social #ECD group.
We truly appreciate the effort & enthusiasm shown by all applicants. 🙏🏻
We are now carefully reviewing each application. We’ll be in touch soon with updates on the next steps.
We truly appreciate the effort & enthusiasm shown by all applicants. 🙏🏻
We are now carefully reviewing each application. We’ll be in touch soon with updates on the next steps.
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June 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
We've been thrilled by the strong interest in the three open positions within the @europeanisa.bsky.social #ECD group.
We truly appreciate the effort & enthusiasm shown by all applicants. 🙏🏻
We are now carefully reviewing each application. We’ll be in touch soon with updates on the next steps.
We truly appreciate the effort & enthusiasm shown by all applicants. 🙏🏻
We are now carefully reviewing each application. We’ll be in touch soon with updates on the next steps.
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⏰ Don't forget to apply to be a part of EISA's Exploratory Symposia at Rapallo this October!
🔗 Find more details here and apply by 16 June: bit.ly/4j4VP1i
🔗 Find more details here and apply by 16 June: bit.ly/4j4VP1i
June 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
⏰ Don't forget to apply to be a part of EISA's Exploratory Symposia at Rapallo this October!
🔗 Find more details here and apply by 16 June: bit.ly/4j4VP1i
🔗 Find more details here and apply by 16 June: bit.ly/4j4VP1i
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We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance.
More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
edu.nl
May 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance.
More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
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🚨 Jobs 🚨
Two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in IR and EU Politics over at UvA (Amsterdam, NL).
Check them out here:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in IR and EU Politics over at UvA (Amsterdam, NL).
Check them out here:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — 2 Assistant Professors: International Relations (option a) and EU Politics and Governance (option b
The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science with a specializat...
werkenbij.uva.nl
May 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🚨 Jobs 🚨
Two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in IR and EU Politics over at UvA (Amsterdam, NL).
Check them out here:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in IR and EU Politics over at UvA (Amsterdam, NL).
Check them out here:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...