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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What If Turkey Is Not Balancing?
Turkish foreign policy invites a familiar question: Where does Ankara stand between East and West? Yet geopolitical position is an imperfect guide to what Turkey can do. The Black Sea shows why the distinction matters, writes Daria Isachenko.
Point of View, 11.09.2026 -
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
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)