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Vuslat Nur Şahin Temel, Assistant Professor at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Institute for Area Studies, Asian Studies Department. She earned her Ph.D. from Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) in 2023, with a dissertation titled “Japan’s Contributions to Non-Traditional Security in Asia: An Analysis within the Framework of Expanded Asian…

Zeynep Şartepe is an international relations researcher interested in emerging and disruptive technologies and in how science and technology intersect with politics, power, and security. She has worked extensively on the politics of drone technology in Turkey and the interface between dual-use technologies and policymaking. She holds a Ph.D. degree…

Samer Sharani is a PhD candidate in political science, at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. His doctoral dissertation focuses on agonistic peacebuilding. It investigates the theory of agonistic peace in relation to and against liberal peace and other critical alternatives, such as hybrid peace, indigenous/local peace, and deliberative peace. He incorporates…

Umut Can Adisonmez received his PhD in International Relations from University of Kent. He is an Assistant Professor at the Political Science and International Relations Department of Izmir University of Economics. Prior to joining Izmir University of Economics in 2021, he worked as a Visiting Lecturer at City, University of…

Azade Eryiğit is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at Kadir Has University, writing her thesis on the analysis of emotions in diplomatic texts. She serves as a Project Specialist in the Horizon Europe Project DE-CONSPIRATOR, coordinated by Özyeğin University. She worked as a Research Assistant at Özyeğin and Doğuş…

Ceren Melis Kıcıroğlu is a research assistant in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences. She completed her MSc in International Relations at the Middle East Technical University and subsequently pursued her doctoral studies at Istanbul University. Her research focuses on the…

Irem Karamik is a doctoral candidate in the Department of International Relations at Hacettepe University. Her doctoral research focuses on the visual theory of international relations, foreign policy, and emotions. She also works as a lecturer and Erasmus+ Institutional Coordinator at Mardin Artuklu University, teaching courses on Political Psychology, Postcolonial…

Dr. Nasuh Sofuoğlu is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University. He received his BA from Karadeniz Technical University, his MA from the University of Sussex, and his PhD from Kadir Has University. He has published articles in the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies…

Çağlar Kurç is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Abdullah Gül University and the founder of the Political Science Gaming Lab. His research on defense industries examines the underlying factors shaping states’ decisions to pursue defense industrialization and the broader…

Serhat Güvenç is currently Professor of International Relations and the Dean of Faculty of Economics, Administrative Sciences at Kadir Has University. Previously, he held faculty positions Istanbul Bilgi University (2000-2010) and lectured as visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago (2006), as adjunct professor of international relations…