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Senem Aydın-Düzgit
@senemaydndzgit.bsky.social
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Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University; Director, Istanbul Policy Center; Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for European Policy Making at Bocconi University
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Senem Aydın-Düzgit @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social · May 24
I have been thinking and writing for a while on the international context of authoritarian resilience. Here is my most recent article in Contemporary Politics on the role of international crises on autocratic resilience in Hungary and Turkey

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569775.2025.2502274
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I very much enjoyed talking to @williamarmstrong.bsky.social for @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social on the domestic use of foreign policy in Turkish politics. based on my latest article for SESP. Thank you for the invite!
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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New episode drops tomorrow 👇👇

Senem Aydın-Düzgit (@senemaydndzgit.bsky.social) on the weaponisation of foreign policy in Turkey's domestic politics

Stay tuned 📌📌

turkeybooktalk.com

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November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 #Turkey
‘approaching foreign policy as a solely external matter... may run the risk of attributing it marginal significance in electoral contests where populists compete for power’

Read the article by @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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How do international crises help authoritarians? I wrote for the Project Syndicate 👇
October 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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@senemaydndzgit.bsky.social shows how Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine helped strengthen the domestic legitimacy of autocrats in Hungary and Turkey in the run-up to pivotal elections.
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How International Crises Help Authoritarians
Senem Aydın-Düzgit shows how Russia’s war against Ukraine strengthened the domestic legitimacy of regimes in Hungary and Turkey.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Glad to see this finally in print. For those who are interested in the populist use of history and its relationship to foreign policy 👇
October 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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How does foreign policy fuel populist authoritarianism? In my latest piece, I explore this question through the case of Turkey’s May 2023 elections.👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Foreign policy as domestic politics in populist competitive authoritarianism: the case of the May 2023 elections in 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...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Pınar Bilgin ve Gülşah Çapan Hocalarımızın yeni projelerini Cuma günü İPM’de dinleme şansı bulduk. Türkiye’nin ilk yüz yılına güvenlik kavramı penceresinden bakan heyecan verici bir çalışma. Bulgularını merakla bekliyoruz
pbilgin.bsky.social Pınar Bilgin @pbilgin.bsky.social · Sep 26
IPM’de Tübitak 1001 projemizin tanıtım sunumunu yaptık bugün. @zgc.bsky.social @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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"Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin İlk Yüz Yılına Güvenlik Kavramı Penceresinden Bakmak TÜBİTAK 1001 Proje Tanıtımı ve İlk Bulgular"
🎙️Senem Aydın-Düzgit, IPM
🎤Pınar Bilgin, Bilkent Üniversitesi
🎤Zeynep Gülşah Çapan, Erfurt Üniversitesi
🗓26 Eylül 11:00, Cuma
🚩İPM, Karaköy
🔗Kayıt için: forms.gle/mvb6t3mvAnUS...
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin İlk Yüz Yılına Güvenlik Kavramı Penceresinden Bakmak-TÜBİTAK 1001 Proje Tanıtımı ve İlk Bulgular
26 Eylül Cuma, İPM Karaköy
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September 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Thank you IPC for organizing, and @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social for hosting.

A goal of mine is to audio-visualize the political science toolkit. Here I presented a new dataset of 11,165 regime videos compiled with @draege.bsky.social. Along with our analysis, we make the dataset available
ipc-ipm.bsky.social Istanbul Policy Center | İstanbul Politikalar Merkezi @ipc-ipm.bsky.social · Jul 10
The panel "Film-Making Turkey Great Again: Findings from a Dataset on AKP Audiovisual Strategies" with Lisel Hintz has just started at IPC Karaköy.
July 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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liselhintz.bsky.social
There's a lot going on in Turkey's politics right now. The repression rate is ratcheting up.

I aim to provide insights with a new dataset on populist audiovisual strategies. Please join me at IPC this Thursday at 11am.

Honored to be hosted by @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social

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July 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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@norafisheronar.bsky.social will be with us this Friday to discuss her new book on contesting pluralism in Turkey and beyond 👇
norafisheronar.bsky.social Nora Fisher-Onar @norafisheronar.bsky.social · Jun 25
How to make sense of Turkey & its region's complexity, rather than rely on combative binaries which produce aggressive policies?

For answers frm my book, join me in Istanbul on Friday @10AM -🙏to @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social , @canatulus.bsky.social & IPC

Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
June 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Our forum on the global perspectives on democracy support in light of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine is now out in International Studies Perspectives 👇

Many thanks to Daniela Huber and Anna Khakee for bringing this together

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Forum: Global Perspectives on Democracy Support in Light of the Wars in Gaza and Ukraine
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
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June 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
senemaydndzgit.bsky.social
I have been thinking and writing for a while on the international context of authoritarian resilience. Here is my most recent article in Contemporary Politics on the role of international crises on autocratic resilience in Hungary and Turkey

t.co/4idkSWeQb6
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569775.2025.2502274
t.co
May 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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"Turkey sees the new emerging global context as an opportunity to remind the EU of Turkey's #accession [...] but the state of democracy in Turkey represents a great issue for the relationship between the two sides."

- @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social at the #DanishPPC
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May 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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"Security and defence are key to Turkey's approach to Europe. A scary scenario for the country is the formation of a European security architecture - autonomous from NATO - which does not include #Turkey"
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- @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social, Professor at Sabanci University, during the #DanishPPC
May 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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On day 2⃣ of the #DanishPPC we're discussing "The EU’s global engagement in a multipolar world", with interventions from Amb. Birgitte Markussen, @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social, @amandinesabourin.bsky.social & Sarah Kristine Poppelkvist

🔗 tepsa.eu/policy-advic... @diis.dk @thinktankeuropa.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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It is not often that we have two articles published in one week, but here we go..We examined the EU's responses to crises in its neighbourhood through the concept of protean power, and it is open access!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises - Comparative European Politics
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...
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May 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Just published! With all the talk on the international context of the authoritarian turn, we looked at Germany’s role in the erosion of the rule of law in Turkey and what how this informs theorising Germany’s power in Europe👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Germany and Rule of Law Support in Turkey: A Status Quo Power?
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...
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May 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Bu sene yakın zamanda kaybettiğimiz Prof. Fuat Keyman anısına verilen Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödülünü (BAGEP 2025) Prof. Senem Aydın Düzgit'ten aldım. Beni bu ödüle layık gören herkese çok teşekkür ederim. @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social @bilimakademisi.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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📰 Sunday extras:

"The Protests and Political Crisis Shaping Turkey's Democratic Future" with @karabekir.bsky.social, @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social and @gonultol.bsky.social. [1/5]
Rethinking Democracy Ep. 7: The Protests and Political Crisis Shaping Turkey's Democratic Future
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,...
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April 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Just published! @chathamhouse.org report on competing visions of international order incl. our contribution on Turkey with @aysezarakol.bsky.social
Competing visions of international order
Responses to US power in a fracturing world
www.chathamhouse.org
April 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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We discussed Turkey's critical juncture on the Rethinking Democracy podcast with @gonultol.bsky.social and @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social.

Listen here: www.mei.edu/multimedia/p...
Rethinking Democracy Ep. 7: The Protests and Political Crisis Shaping Turkey's Democratic Future
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,...
www.mei.edu
April 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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☪ We've ungated a selection of the JoD's Turkey analysis for a limited time!

Full list of essays here: www.journalofdemocra...
Erdoğan’s Latest Autocratic Crackdown | Journal of Democracy
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…
www.journalofdemocracy.org
March 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
senemaydndzgit.bsky.social
On Monday, we had a full house discussion at the Istanbul Policy Center on the German election results with Heinrich Kreft, Ebru Turhan , Cigdem Nas and Johanna Wietschel. For those who missed it, it is now available on our youtube channel 👇

youtube.com/live/YkISs-8...
German Elections: The Day After
YouTube video by Istanbul Policy Center
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February 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM