Academic Writing (excluding books)
2024. (Forum discussion with Julia Costa Lopez, Zeynep Gülşah Çapan, Atsuko Watanabe, Adhemar Mercado), 'Thinking through 1492: IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates'. International Political Sociology, 18.4.
2023. 'Global History and International Relations: a discussion with Ayşe Zarakol, Glenda Sluga, and Heidi Tworek'. Toynbee Prize Foundation website. November 22.
2023. 'Rise of “Strongmen”? Possible Unforeseen Implications for Foreign Policy', Contexto Internacional 45.2: Forum: Populist Radical Right & Illiberal Foreign Policymaking.
2023. (with Michael Barnett) 'Global international relations and the essentialism trap', International Theory, 15.3: 428-444.
2023. (with Tarak Barkawi and Chris Murray) 'The United Nations of IR: power, knowledge, and empire in Global IR debates', International Theory 15.3: 445-461.
2023. 'Response to reviewers, the Francesco Guicciardini Prize Forum', Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 36.6: 782–784.
2023. My response to the RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-3 on Zarakol, Before the West. H-Diplo. 15 September.
2023. (with George Lawson) 'The State', in Andrew Denning and Heidi J.S. Tworek, The Interwar World. Routledge.
2023. 'A defence of Macro-History in International Relations', e-International Relations. August 27.
2023. 'Erken Cumhuriyet Türkiye'sinin uluslararası ilişkiler tarihi açısından önemi', Toplum ve Bilim 164: 32-46. [The significance of early Republican Turkey for the history of international relations].
2023. Contribution to RJISSF Roundtable Review 14-30 on Owens & Rietzler, Women’s International Thought. H-Diplo. 31 July.
2023. (with J.C. Sharman). 'Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders', American Political Science Review. 1–13. First view doi: 10.1017/S0003055423000424.
2023. 'Modernity and Modernities in International Relations', in Mlada Bukovansky, Edward Keene, Christian Reus-Smit, and Maja Spanu, eds. The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations. Oxford University Press.
2023. 'Can Historicism Win Over IR?', in Klaus Schlichte and Stephan Stetter, eds., The Historicity of International Politics: Imperialism and the Presence of the Past. Cambridge University Press. 291-302.
2023 (with Chris Reus-Smit). 'Polymorphic justice and the crisis of international order', International Affairs 99.1: 1-22.
2023 (with George Lawson). 'Recognizing injustice: the "hypocrisy charge" and the future of the liberal international order', International Affairs 99.1: 201-17.
2022. 'Remembering the Shared History of (Eur)Asia: Is This a Good Idea in the Twenty-First Century?', Global Studies Quarterly 2: 1-4.
2022 (with Justin Rosenberg, David Blagden, Olivia Rutazibwa, Kevin Gray, Olaf Corry, Kamran Matin, Felipe Antunes de Oliveira and Luke Cooper). 'Debating Uneven and Combined Development/Debating International Relations', Millennium. First published February 25 online.
2021 (with Rebecca Adler-Nissen). 'Struggles for Recognition: The Liberal International Order and the Merger of its Discontents', International Organization (75th Anniversary Special Issue edited by David Lake, Lisa Martin and Thomas Risse). 75.2: 611-34.
2021. 'Anatomies of Revolution and Global Historical Sociology', Debating Anatomies of Revolution Forum hosted by Progress in Political Economy blog. April.
2021. 'Linking up the Ottoman Empire with IR's timeline', Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations. Routledge. pp. 464-76.
2021. 'Literary Hierarchies and Their Academic Parallels'. Symposium on Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature by Gloria Fisk. Syndicate Network.
2021. 'Book Review: The Rebirth of Area Studies: Challenges for History, Politics and International Relations in the 21st Century', The Slavonic and East European Review 99.2: 393-94.
2020. Did the COVID19 Pandemic End the 'Long Twentieth Century'? Symposium on Global Governance in the Age of COVID, Northwestern University.
2020. 'Europe: A Family, A Marriage, A Social Club or Something Else Altogether?' in Giulio Squillacciotti, ed., What Has Left Since We Left: Europe through six metaphors. Eindhoven, NL: Onomatopee.
2020. 'Use of Historical Analogies in IR Theory', ISSF Roundtable XII-2 on 'Steve Chan. Thucydides’s Trap? Historical Interpretation, Logic of Inquiry, and the Future of Sino-American Relations.' H-Diplo. November 9.
2020. 'On Global Historical Sociology: the inaugural Fletcher Prize Forum', Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 33:6, 888-890.
2020. (with Jelena Subotic). 'Historical Narratives, Memory and Emotions in International Relations', in Simon Koschut, ed., The Power of Emotions in World Politics. London: Routledge.
2020. 'The Ottomans and Diversity', in Andrew Phillips and Chris Reus-Smit, eds., Culture and Order in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2019 (with Zeynep Gülşah Çapan).'Turkey's Ambivalent Self: Ontological Insecurity in "Kemalism" vs. "Erdoğanism"', Cambridge Review of International Affairs 32.3: 263-282.
Republished 2023. In Brent J. Steele and Alexandra Homolar, eds., Ontological Insecurities and the Politics of Contemporary Populism. Routledge.
Republished 2023. In Brent J. Steele and Alexandra Homolar, eds., Ontological Insecurities and the Politics of Contemporary Populism. Routledge.
2019. 'Rise of the Rest: As Hype and Reality', International Relations 33.2 [Special Issue: Reflections on a Century of International Politics]: 213–228.
2019. 'Turkish Foreign Policy', in Takashi Inoguchi, ed. The SAGE Handbook of Asian Foreign Policy. Sage.
2018. 'A Non-Eurocentric Approach to Sovereignty', International Studies Review 3.20, Forum: In the Beginning There was No Word (for it): Terms, Concepts and Early Sovereignty: 489-520 (page numbers for entire forum).
2018. 'Sovereign Equality as Misrecognition', Review of International Studies. 44.5: 848-62.
2018 (with Zeynep Gülşah Çapan). 'Between "East" and "West": Travelling Theories, Travelling Imaginations', in Andreas Gofas, Inanna Hamati-Ataya and Nicholas Onuf, eds., The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations. Sage.
2017. 'Introduction: Theorising Hierarchies', in Ayşe Zarakol, ed., Hierarchies in World Politics. Cambridge Studies in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2017. 'Why Hierarchy?', in Ayşe Zarakol, ed., Hierarchies in World Politics. Cambridge Studies in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2017. 'Are Eurocentrism and Babel the only options?' Contribution to a post-publication ISQ Symposium on 'Comparing International Systems in World History: Anarchy, Hierarchy, and Culture', pp. 6-7.
2017 (with Zeynep Gülşah Çapan). 'Postcolonial colonialism? The case of Turkey', in Charlotte Epstein, ed. Against International Relations Norms. Routledge.
2017. ‘Türkiye ve Rusya: Tarihsel Benzerlikler’, in Gencer Özcan, Evren Balta, Burç Beşgül (eds.) Kuşku ile Komşuluk: Türkiye ve Rusya İlişkilerinde Değişen Dinamikler. İstanbul İletişim Yayınları.
2017. 'States and Ontological Security: A Historical Rethinking', Cooperation & Conflict. 52.1: 48-68.
2016. 'Thoughts on How the West Came to Rule', Spectrum: Journal of Global Studies 8.1: 21-30.
2016 (with Janice Bially Mattern). 'Hierarchies in World Politics', International Organization vol. 70, no. 3: 623-54.
2016. Contribution to 'ISSF Roundtable 8-10 on The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations by Barry Buzan and George Lawson', H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Reviews vol. VIII, no. 10: 12-13.
2016. ‘Is Judicialization Good for Democracy: A Comparative Discussion,’ in Giorgi Areshidze, Paul Carrese and Suzanna Sherry, eds., Constitutionalism, Executive Power, and the Spirit of Moderation: Essays in Honor of Murray P. Dry. SUNY Press.
2015. 'Afterword: Creating a Community of Area Studies in a Changing World,' in Edith Clowes and Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, eds., Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity. Northern Illinois University Press.
2015. 'Recalling the caliphate: decolonization and world order by S.Sayyid', Cambridge Review of International Affairs vol. 28, no. 3: 508-9. [Book review]
2015. Contribution to ‘Roundtable: International History and Reconceptualizing Empire’,
International History and Politics Section Newsletter of the American Political Science
Association (APSA), vol. 1, issue 1.
International History and Politics Section Newsletter of the American Political Science
Association (APSA), vol. 1, issue 1.
2015. 'The Interplay between Regional International Societies: A Response to Thomas Linsenmaier', Global Discourse vol.5, no.3: 467-9.
2015. 'Opting out of the European Union: diplomacy, sovereignty and European integration by Rebecca Adler-Nissen', Global Affairs vol.1, no.2: 216-8. [Book review]
2014. 'What made the modern world hang together: socialisation or stigmatisation?' International Theory vol.6, no.2: 311-332.
2014. 'Emerging Powers', Journal of Asian Studies vol.73, no.3: 778-80. [Book review]
2013 (with Jelena Subotic) 'Cultural Intimacy in International Relations', European Journal of International Relations vol.19, no.4: 915-38.
2013. 'Revisiting Second Image Reversed: Lessons from Turkey and Thailand', International Studies Quarterly vol.50, no.1: 150-62
2012. (with Duncan McCargo) 'Turkey and Thailand: Unlikely Twins', Journal of Democracy vol.23 no.3: 71-79.
Republished in Turkish as 'Türkiye ve Tayland: Beklenmedik İkizler,' zete.com, 11 Aralık 2013.
2012. 'Problem areas for the new Turkish foreign policy', Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity vol.40, no.5: 739-745.
2011. 'Theorizing International Relations: Politics vs. Philosophy', International Studies Review vol.13, no.4: 647-53. [Review Essay]
2011. 'What Makes Terrorism Modern? Terrorism, Legitimacy, and the International System', Review of International Studies vol.37, no.5: 2311-36.
WINNER OF BISA 2011 Best article in Review of International Studies Award.
WINNER OF BISA 2011 Best article in Review of International Studies Award.
2011. 'Turkey and the Arab World: A Reconvergence of Destinies', Orient (journal of the German Orient-Institute) vol.52, no.III: 31-36.
2011. 'Turkey, Islam, Nationalism and Modernity by Carter Vaughn Findley', Review of Middle East Studies vol.45, no.2: 224-5. [Book Review]
2011. 'Visions of World Community by Jens Bartelson', Journal of Politics vol.73, no.4: 1295-6. [Book Review]
2011. 'Rethinking World Politics: A Theory of Transnational Neopluralism by Philip G. Cerny', International Affairs vol.87, no.1: 198-9. [Book Review]
2010. 'Ontological Insecurity and State Denial of Historical Crimes: Turkey and Japan,' International Relations vol.24, no.1: 3-23.
2010. 'The Politics of Uneven Development: Thailand’s Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective by Richard F. Doner,' Review of Policy Research vol.27, no.6: 827-9.
2008. 'Fear and Loathing in the International System' in North and South in the World Political Economy, edited by Rafael Reuveny and William R. Thompson. Wiley Blackwell.
2005. (with Ilter Turan and Seref Iba) 'Inter-party mobility in the Turkish Grand National Assembly: curse or blessing?' European Journal of Turkish Studies. 3: 1-23.