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Dr. Berk Esen

Research Division:

Turkey/CATS IPC-Stiftung Mercator Fellow

Areas of Expertise

Focus

Turkish politics, Turkish foreign policy, political parties, authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, populism

Since 09/2021 IPC-Stiftung Mercator Fellow at SWP

Since 09/2020 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sabanci University

09/2015 - 08/2020 Assistant Professor of International Relations, Bilkent University

01/2015 - 08/2015 Postdoctoral Scholar, Foundations Development Directorate, Sabanci University

09/2007 - 01/2015 PhD (Government), Department of Government, Cornell University

- Berk Esen
Who is going to run for President of Turkey?

Berk Esen interviewrd by Murat Türsan, Egemen Gök; Voice Overs: Kathleen Phelps, Senem Görür in: This Week in Turkey (265), Medyascope, 15.04.2022 (video)
- Berk Esen
- İlker Aytürk
The Far Right, Labor Unions, and the Working Class in Turkey since the 1960s

in: The Middle East Journal, Volume 75, Number 4, Winter 2021/22, pp. 511-531 (online)

doi:10.3751/75.4.11
- Berk Esen
- Kemal Kirişci
Might the Turkish Electorate Be Ready to Say Goodbye to Erdoğan After Two Decades in Power?

in: Just Security, 22.11.2021 (online)
- Berk Esen
- Sebnem Gumuscu
Why did Turkish democracy collapse? A political economy account of AKP’s authoritarianism

in: Party Politics, 27 (6), 2021, pp. 1075–1091 (online)

doi:10.1177/1354068820923722
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- Berk Esen
Praetorian Army in Action: A Critical Assessment of Civil– Military Relations in Turkey

in: Armed Forces & Society, 47 (1), 2021, pp. 201-222

doi:10.1177/0095327X20931548
- Berk Esen
- Sebnem Gumuscu
Turkey: How the Coup Failed

in: Journal of Democracy, 28 (1), January 2017, pp. 59-73

doi:10.1353/jod.2017.0006
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