Speaker

Senem Aydın-Düzgit is a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University and the Director of the Istanbul Policy Center. She is also a non-resident fellow at the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University.

In 2024-2025, she was the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and in 2023-2024 was based at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin as a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow. She holds a PhD from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a BA from Bogaziçi University.

Her main research interests include identity, history, and discourse in the study of international politics, with an empirical focus on European and Turkish foreign policies;and more recently, the nexus between domestic and foreign policies of middle powers in the changing international order. She has also conducted academic and policy relevant research in the field of international democracy support, both in the context of European foreign policy through enlargement and Turkish foreign policy. Her articles have appeared in many of the leading journals in international relations and European politics, including the European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Democracy, International Affairs, West European Politics and Third World Quarterly.

She is the author of Turkey and the European Union (with Nathalie Tocci) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Constructions of European Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012;Turkish edition 2015). She is a council member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE), a member of the Carnegie Rising Democracies Network, and an academic advisory board member of the Institüt für Europaische Politik.

She is the co-editor of the Future of Europe book series (Springer) and sits on the editorial boards of the following journals: Journal of European Integration, Journal of Language and Politics, South European Society and Politics, New Perspectives on Turkey.