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
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On Turkey, @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social examines how foreign policy issues were instrumentalized by Pres Erdoğan & the AKP in the May 2023 elections, finding populist politicization through the discursive metanarrative of status elevation & external sponsorship
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
On Turkey, @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social examines how foreign policy issues were instrumentalized by Pres Erdoğan & the AKP in the May 2023 elections, finding populist politicization through the discursive metanarrative of status elevation & external sponsorship
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
More to follow soon, as the international is increasingly becoming a key enabling factor in authoritarian resilience globally
May 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
More to follow soon, as the international is increasingly becoming a key enabling factor in authoritarian resilience globally
And more recently, where Europe and more specifically Germany, stands in all of this, in German Politics
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644008.2025.2497082?src=exp-la
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May 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
And more recently, where Europe and more specifically Germany, stands in all of this, in German Politics
t.co/tiEMHPRbE1
t.co/tiEMHPRbE1
A later piece on the role of regime security in foreign policies of authoritarian middle powers in International Affairs
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https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/99/6/2319/7337079
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May 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A later piece on the role of regime security in foreign policies of authoritarian middle powers in International Affairs
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This ties in with three earlier works: one on crisis and Erdogan’s 2023 electoral victory in Journal of Democracy
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https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-erdogan-rules-through-crisis/
t.co
May 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This ties in with three earlier works: one on crisis and Erdogan’s 2023 electoral victory in Journal of Democracy
t.co/AKxXRW54Vb
t.co/AKxXRW54Vb
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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
"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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- @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social at the #DanishPPC
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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
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- @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social, Professor at Sabanci University, during the #DanishPPC
May 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"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
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- @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social, Professor at Sabanci University, during the #DanishPPC