Senem Aydın-Düzgit

@senemaydndzgit.bsky.social

Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University; Director, Istanbul Policy Center; Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for European Policy Making at Bocconi University

Why have Turkey and Hungary become close political partners despite limited trade and little public demand for closer ties? My article argues that the answer lies in a common pushback against EU criticism and both regimes' regional ambitions beyond the EU. 1/4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stigmatized but not alone: illiberal coalition-building between Turkey and Hungary

This article examines how Turkey and Hungary cooperated to contest norms of the Liberal International Order (LIO) between 2013 and 2025. Drawing on the content analysis of semi-structured interview...

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We attended the @mybisa.bsky.social conference in Brighton last week. Along with an exhibit booth, we were on 4️⃣roundtables: ➡️ Ask me Anything: IR Journal Publishing ➡️ Meet the Editors ➡️ Maximizing Impact: Communicating Research to Diverse Audiences ➡️ Bridging Academia and Policy in a Changing World

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First publication of the year is now out! An edited volume on Interlingual Relations from the Univ. of Michigan Press with a chapter with Bahar Rumelili on “Transversing Civilizational Hierarchies? The Introduction of Latin Alphabet in Turkey”. And it is open access! press.umich.edu/Books/I/Inte...

Interlingual Relations

International politics is often conducted in two languages or more, and since no two languages are exactly the same, what is possible to say in one language may be impossible to say in another. Transl...

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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!

Turkey Book Talk@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New episode 🚨🚨 Senem Aydın-Düzgit (@senemaydndzgit.bsky.social) on how Erdogan uses foreign policy, defence policy and strongman diplomacy to burnish his reputation and consolidate domestic support 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/11/11/s...