Books and Edited Volumes (Peer reviewed)
Türkiye—Batı İlişkileri: İttifak İçi Muhalefet Politikaları. August 2023, Istanbul: Koç University Press (Turkish translation of Turkey—West Relations).
The Nexus Between Security Sector Reform/Governance and Sustainable Development Goal-16: An Examination of Conceptual Linkages and Policy Recommendations. Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) SSR Paper 20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bcm. 2021, London: Ubiquity Press.
Turkey—West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition. November 2019, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
External Interventions in Civil Wars: Assessing the Role and Impact of Regional and International Organisations (2014) (with Stefan Wolff), Routledge.
The European Union as an Actor in Security Sector Reform: Current Practices and Challenges of Implementation (2014). Routledge.
Guest Co-Editor of Civil Wars Special Issue, Assessing Regional and International Organizations’ Interventions in Civil Wars: Capabilities and Context (with Stefan Wolff), Civil Wars 14(3), 2012.
Guest Editor of European Security Special Issue, The EU and Security Sector Reform Practices: Challenges of Implementation, European Security 21(2), 2012.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters (Peer reviewed)
Forthcoming. “Two-Dimensional Soft Balancing in Central Asia: Impact on Regional and Global Orders,” International Affairs.
“Forming Connections between Security Sector Reform and Sustainable Development: The Potential of the Human Security Paradigm” (with Luka Glušac), Journal of Regional Security, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2024, DOI: 10.5937/jrs19-46819.
“The Western Balkans and Prospects for the EU and NATO Accession,” Transatlantic Policy Quarterly. Spring 2024. DOI: 10.58867/QVMY1137.
“Changing Responses to a Frozen Conflict: The Republic of Cyprus Soft Balancing vis-à-vis Turkey,” International Political Science Review, Volume 45, Issue 1, 2024, pp.15-30, https://doi.org/10.1177/01925121231177443.
“Turkish Foreign Policy in the Balkans” In Binnur Ozkececi-Taner and Sinem Acikmese, Eds. 2023. One Hundred Years of Turkish Foreign Policy (1923-2023): Historical and Theoretical Reflections. Palgrave Macmillan.
“An Examination of the Underlying Dynamics of Turkey-European Union Relations from the Lenses of IR Theory,” Turkish Studies, published online on April 12, 2022.
“Turkey-Greece Relations: Growing Tensions and Implications for Transatlantic Relations,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, November 10, 2020.
“The Western Balkans in the Transatlantic Security Context,” Insight Turkey, Volume 21, Issue 2, Spring 2019.
“The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo: An Analysis from the Local Perspective”, Ethnopolitics, Volume 17, Issue 1, 2018.
“Turkish Soft Balancing against the EU?: An Analysis of the Prospects for Improved Transatlantic Security Relations” article, Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 13, Issue 4, 2017.
“Pitfalls of Security Sector Reform in Costa Rica: Insights into Security Sector Reform in Non-Military Countries”, Peacebuilding, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2017.
“The Assembly-Line Model of Peacebuilding: Towards a Theory of International Collaboration in Multidimensional Peacebuilding Operations”, International Journal of Peace Studies, Volume 21, Number 2, 2016.
“Turkey and the European Union: Strategic Partners or Competitors in the Western Balkans?” article, Journal of Regional Security, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2016.
“British Public Opinion and Mass-Elite Relations on EU Enlargement: Implications on the Democratic Deficit Debate”, CEU Political Science Journal, Volume 9, No. 1-2, February-April 2014.
“French Public Opinion on the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union and the Public-Elite Relations”, French Politics, Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2013.
“Veto Players Inside and Out: The Future of EU-NATO Security Relations as Explained in a Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis of French and Turkish Grand Strategies” (with Colette Mazzucelli) in Laursen, F. (ed.) The EU, Security and Transatlantic Relations, Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2012.
“Regional and International Conflict Regulation: Diplomatic, Economic, and Military Interventions” (with Stefan Wolff), Civil Wars, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2012.
“Secularism in Turkey,” Religion and Public Life, Volume 38, June 2012.
“Security Sector Reform and Transitional Justice in Kosovo: Comparing the Kosovo Security Force and Police Reform Processes” (with Katy Crossley-Frolick), Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Volume 6, Number 2, June 2012.
“The European Union and Security Sector Reform: Current Practices and Challenges of Implementation” (with Antoine Vandemoortele), European Security, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2012.
“Security Sector Reform in Kosovo: The Complex Division of Labor between the EU and Other Multilateral Institutions in Building Kosovo’s Police Force” (with Katy Crossley-Frolick), European Security, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2012.
“Internationalizing General Education at the Introductory Level: The First-Year Seminar on Political Self-Determination and Internet-Based Political Research” (with E. Fletcher McClellan and Wayne Selcher), Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Volume 9, 2012.
“European Union Enlargement and British Public Opinion: The Agenda-Setting Power of the Press,” Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Volume 12, No. 2, June 2011.
“Does it Take Four to Tango?: A Comparative Analysis of International Collaboration on Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Kosovo,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 12, Number 4, December 2010.
“Turkey and the EU: Implications of Membership Scenarios on Transatlantic Security Relations,” in Biscop, S. and J. Lembke, (eds.) EU Enlargement and the Transatlantic Alliance: A Security Relationship in Flux. Lynne Rienner Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-58826-578-4, 2008.
“Press Coverage and Public Opinion on European Union’s Eastern Enlargement: A Case Study of Agenda Setting and Priming in Comparative Setting,” in Communication in the Millennium, ISBN: 978-975-98560-2-1, 2007.
“Is the Transatlantic Alliance Sinking into the Abyss of the Atlantic?” in Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs, Volume 8, Spring 2005.
“Transatlantic Rift?: An Assessment of the Peacekeeping Policies of the United States and the EU,” in Stivachtis, Y. A. (ed.) International Governance and International Security: Issues and Perspectives, ISBN: 960-88331-6-7, 2004.
Short Articles, Policy Papers, and Op-Ed Columns
“Is the Atlantic Pact Sinking in the Deep Eastern Mediterranean?” Policy Paper for Foreign Policy Research Institute and Heinrich Böll Foundation, forthcoming in November 2020.
“US-Turkey Relations: How to Avoid a Complete Breakdown?” Policy Paper for ISTANPOL and Heinrich Böll Foundation, February 2020.
“NATO’s London Summit: Intra-alliance Opposition and Silver Linings,” Blog Entry for FifteenEightyFour Blog of Cambridge University Press, February 10, 2020.
“The Arab Spring: A Golden Opportunity for Security Sector Reform in MENA,” Op-Ed Column in In Depth (University of Nicosia) Vol. 8, Issue 4, August 2011.
“Turkey-NATO Relations at a Crossroads,” Op-Ed Column in Hürriyet Daily News (The oldest Turkish daily newspaper in English-language), 15 October 2010.
“International Law and the Position of Kosovo in Contemporary International Community,” in Juristi (Law Faculty Journal), University of Prishtina, September 2010.
“Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanism in the Balkans,” Op-Ed in Prishtina Insight (a leading English-language newspaper in Kosovo), 3 September 2010.
“The Strategic Triangle’s Crisis Management,” in Atlantic-Community.org (with Colette Mazzucelli), 30 August 2010.
“Turkey’s ‘Signature’ Bridge: How the West can Enter an ‘Alliance of Civilizations’,” in Enduring America website (with Colette Mazzucelli and Laura Wicks), 10 August 2009.
“Peacekeeping and Human Rights,” in The United Nations and Partnerships for Peace Workshop Report (2004) published by the United Nations Office at Geneva, Information Service, Press and External Relations Section.
“Will the US Policy on Iraq Lead to another Vietnam Syndrome?” in Referans Gazetesi (a Turkish daily newspaper), Commentary Section, 18 November 2004.
Book Reviews
Book Review of Dimitris Bouris, The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories: State-Building without a State. European Security, Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2015.
Review Essay of two books: Özlem Terzi, The Influence of the European Union on Turkish Foreign Policy and Çiğdem Üstün, Turkey and European Security Defence Policy in European Security, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2012.
Book Review of Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca Moore (eds.) NATO: In Search of a Vision in European Security, Volume 20, Issue 2, June 2011.
Book Review of Jacques Thomassen, (ed.) The Legitimacy of the European Union after Enlargement in Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, June 2010.
Book Review of Caroline A. Hartzell and Mathhew Hoddie’s Crafting Peace in Plumb Line, Summer 2008.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Regional Alliances and Rising Geostrategic Competition in the Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for Transatlantic Relations and Regional Peace (Sabbatical book project at Harvard University)
Manuscript under review. “Changing Responses to a Frozen Conflict: The Republic of Cyprus Soft Balancing vis-à-vis Turkey,” International Political Science Review.
Manuscript under review. “Turkish Foreign Policy in the Balkans” (Chapter in an edited volume on Turkish Foreign Policy by Dr. Binnur Ozkececi-Taner and Dr. Sinem Acikmese).
“Turkey-Russia Relations: Is Strategic Partnership Feasible?” (Article to be submitted to International Security)
“The Last Window of Opportunity? The Prospects for the Resolution of the Cyprus Conflict” (with Odysseas Christou) (Article to be submitted to Security Dialogue)