My advisees Özge Karban and Deniz Özdemir have successfully defended their MA theses during the Summer 2025. Özge will pursue her PhD at PennState, and Deniz will do at Binghamton University

Keep an eye on them in the upcoming years - two great scholars in the making

Congratulations!

Do sanction threats work? We find that threats—even if credibly backed—do not increase support for concessions in the target public (Turkiye case). Plus, positive inducements provoke backlash in some groups, highlighting coercive diplomacy’s limits

Check out our research note: shrturl.app/3l4wWJ

Had a great time giving a guest talk at University of Washington International Security Colloquium. Grateful for kind invitation, insightful discussion, awesome Seattle weather. Big thanks to the Dept of Polisci and @aslicansunar.bsky.social for hosting me at the campus 🙏

Since my graduation back in 2017, I was in @bingpolisci.bsky.social for the first time as a guest speaker. A great audience with tough questions as always.

It was really good to be back home, and walk through the corridors of the department once again. Truly thankful for their invitation…

Sabbatical year comes with benefits: visiting Uni. of Pittsburgh PoliSci was a great pleasure. I would like thank TASA for their invitation, and many colleagues, friends, and graduate students for their hospitality and substantial feedbacks!

Our article is online first now. Comparing public attitudes in USA, Germany & Türkiye, we show that public concerns over human rights violations in foreign countries are highly strategic, based on political alliances rather than legal context.

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The forum article offers a platform to discuss the limits and prospects of international cooperation, the challenges of incorporating local knowledge, and the ways to overcome obstacles, by K.G.Cunningham, D.Aksoy, D.B.Carter, C.E.Loyle, S.Akcinaroglu, K.S.Gleditsch with E.Tokdemir and I.Kalin.

Many have recently joined here, and some were missing in X for a while. So, let me introduce two recently published articles of two newly-minted scholars - Buse Duveroglu and Latife Kinay-Kilic - who are not in here yet:

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Center for Foreign Policy & Peace Research co-organizes “Local Wisdom, Global Insights” talk series with All-Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace. We kick off the talks with Kathleen Cunningham’s “Evolution of Conflict Data and Methodologies” Register via docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our article w/ Buse Duveroglu -soon to be graduated PhD candidate- is online first now at Terrorism & Political Violence. We have examined the impact of leader tenure on COIN strategies (free 50 copies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....). A great pleasure to work with a rising scholar in the field.