Dr. Daria Isachenko
Eastern Europe, Eurasia Visiting Fellow
Short Curriculum vitae
2019 – 2025 Research Associate, Centre for Applied Turkey Studies, SWP, Berlin
2017 – 2018 Lecturer and Research Fellow at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder
2011 – 2015 Academic Manager of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies
2008 – 2011 Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
2004 – 2008 Research Fellow in the Junior Research Group “Micropolitics of Armed Groups” (funded by Volkswagen-Foundation), Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin
SWP Publications
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Turkey’s Turns to Central Asia: Learning by Doing
SWP Comment 2025/C 49, 25.11.2025, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2025C49
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Turkey’s Strategic Autonomy in the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean
SWP Comment 2024/C 39, 06.09.2024, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C39
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Turkey in the Black Sea Region
Ankara’s Reactions to the War in Ukraine against the Background of Regional Dynamics and Global Confrontation
SWP Research Paper 2023/RP 12, 17.10.2023, 32 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2023RP12
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Turkey-Iran Rivalry in the Changing Geopolitics of the South Caucasus
SWP Comment 2023/C 49, 27.09.2023, 6 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2023C49
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The Black Sea as Mare Clausum
Turkey’s special role in the regional security architecture
SWP Comment 2023/C 33, 21.06.2023, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2023C33
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Turkey’s Stakes in the Russia-NATO Rivalry
The Ukraine Crisis and Beyond
SWP Comment 2022/C 09, 14.02.2022, 4 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2022C09
External publications
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Turkish foreign policy in Central Asia with Daria Isachenko
Interview by Diego Cupolo, in: Turkey Recap Radio #29, 22.12.2025 -
South Caucasus and the Turkish Model for Regional Engagement
Commentary, in: Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), 17.12.2025 -
The Riparian Logic of the Montreux Convention in Turkey’s Black Sea Policy
in: Naval War College Review, Vol. 78, No. 1, Article 6. -
Germany’s Perceptions of Turkey’s Policy in the South Caucasus
From Coexistence to Cooperation?
CATS Network Paper, No. 12, 17 February 2025, 30 Pages -
Türkei: Im Westen bleiben, autonom handeln
in: Regionale Schlüsselakteure in der neuen globalen Ordnung: Indien, Kenia, Kolumbien, Türkei, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), September 2024, S. 73-90 (online) -
Risks of Orbit Thinking in the South Caucasus: On the European Union’s Engagement in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
27th Workshop of the PfP Consortium Study Group “Regional Stability in the South Caucasus”
in: Christoph Bilban, Frederic Labarre and George Niculescu (eds.), Does the EU Need a Strategy for the South Caucasus: 27th Workshop of the PfP Consortium Study Group on Regional Stability in the South Caucasus, Band 14 / 2024, September 2024, pp. 17-24 (online)