Books
Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey. New York: Cambridge University Press (Problems of International Politics), 2012.
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Winner of the 2013 Joseph Rothschild Book Prize, Association for the Study of Nationalities and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
Reviewed in Comparative Political Studies, American Historical Review, Perspectives on Politics, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Survival, Pro et Contra, National Identities, Insight Turkey, and Laboratorium. Book Symposium in Nationalities Papers.
(Turkish translation) Almanya, Rusya ve Türkiye'de Etnisite Rejimleri ve Milliyet. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2015. Sipariş için (purchase at) Kitapyurdu.com
Türkiye’nin Kimlikleri: Din, Dil, Etnisite, Milliyet, Devlet ve Medeniyet. Istanbul: Etkileşim, 2013.
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Articles in Journals included in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
“Religion and Nationalism: Contradictions of Islamic Origins and Secular Nation-Building in Turkey,
Algeria, and Pakistan.” Social Science Quarterly 96 (2015): 778-806.
“Fourth Style of Politics: Eurasianism as a Pro-Russian Rethinking of Turkey’s Geopolitical Identity.”
Turkish Studies 16, no. 01 (2015): page numbers pending.
“NATO Neden Genişledi? Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramları Işığında NATO'nun Genişlemesi ve ABD-Rusya
İç Siyaseti.” Uluslararası İlişkiler 9, no. 34 (2012): 73-97.
“Regimes of Ethnicity: Comparative Analysis of Germany, the Soviet Union/Post-Soviet Russia, and
Turkey.” World Politics 63, no. 01 (2011): 115-164.
“Passport Identification and Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Russia.” Post-Soviet Affairs 26, no. 04
(2010): 314-341.
“Persistence of the Islamic Millet as an Ottoman Legacy: Mono-Religious and Anti-Ethnic Definition of
Turkish Nationhood.” Middle Eastern Studies 45, no. 6 (2009): 913-929.
“Incompatible Visions of Supra-nationalism: National Identity in Turkey and the European Union.”
European Journal of Sociology 48, no. 02 (2007): 347-72.
Journal Articles in Other Refereed Journals and Periodicals
(with Dmitry Gorenburg, Sherrill Stroschein, Gunes Murat Tezcur) “Book Symposium on Şener
Aktürk’s Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey.” Nationalities Papers
42, no. 5 (2014): 890-904.
“Karşılaştırmalı Siyasetin Zaviyesinden Türk Kimliğinin Geçmişi, Bugünü ve Geleceği.” Türkiye
Günlüğü 114 (2013): 31-46.
“Russian-Turkish Relations in the 21st Century, 2000-2012.” Russian Analytical Digest 125 (25 March
2013): 2-5.
“The Four Pillars of Ottoman Identity: Religious Toleration, Diversity and the Four Millets under the
Eternal State.” Turkish Review 3, no. 1 (2013): 14-21.
“September 11, 1683: Myth of a Christian Europe and the Massacre in Norway.” Insight Turkey 14, no.
1 (2012): 1-11.
“Continuity and Change in the Regimes of Ethnicity in Austria, Germany, USSR/Russia, and Turkey:
Varieties of Ethnic Regimes and Hypotheses for Change.” Nationalities Papers 35, no. 1 (2007): 23-49.
“Turkish-Russian Relations after the Cold War, 1992-2002.” Turkish Studies 7, no. 3 (2006): 337-364.
“Between Aristotle and the Welfare State: The Establishment, Enforcement, and Transformation of the
Moral Economy in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation.” Theoria 53, no.1 (2006): 100-122.
“Counter-Hegemonic Visions and Reconciliation through the Past: The Case of Turkish Eurasianism.”
Ab Imperio 4 (2004): 207-238.
“The Turkish Minority in German Politics: Trends, Diversification of Representation, and Policy
Implications for Turkey.” Insight Turkey 11, no.1 (2010): 65-80.
“Osmanlı Devleti’nde Dini Çeşitlilik: Farklı Olan Neydi?.” Doğu Batı 50 (2010): 133-158.
“Türkiye Siyasetinde Etnik Hareketler, 1920-2007.” Doğu Batı 44 (2008): 43-74.
“Braudel'den Elias'a ve Huntington'a ‘Medeniyet’ Kavramının Kullanımları.” Doğu Batı 41 (2007):
147-175.
“Etnik Kategori ve Milliyetcilik: Tek-etnili, Cok-etnili, ve Gayri-etnik Rejimler.” Doğu Batı 38 (2006):
23-53.
“Turkey's Special Relationship with Germany and Russia.” Insight Turkey 8, no. 4 (2006): 7-14.
“Origins of Gandhi's Emergence as a World Historical Figure and the New Age Culture.” Journal of Academic Studies 10, no. 38, (2008): 126-138.
“Representations of the Turkic Peoples in Shahnameh and the Greco-Roman Sources.” Journal of
Academic Studies 8, no. 29 (2006): 15-26.
“A Military History of the New World Order and the Emergence of U.S. Hegemony.” Alternatives:
Turkish Journal of International Relations 5, no. 1-2 (2006): 65-72.
“American and British Foreign Policy in the Middle East." Insight Turkey 7, no. 1 (2005): 153-161.
“Global Governance, Humanitarian Intervention, and the UN.” Alternatives: Turkish Journal of
International Relations 2, no. 3-4 (2003): 50-62.
“Distributional Consequences of Globalization: Economic and Political Redistribution.” Journal of
Academic Studies 5, no. 17 (2003): 1-15.
“Market Liberalism and Social Protection: Hayek, Durkheim, and Polanyi in Theoretical Perspective.”
Journal of Academic Studies 4, no. 14 (2002): 17-32.
“Comparing Ethnicity Regimes in the Five Central Asian Republics.” Institute for Slavic, Eastern
European, and Eurasian Studies Newsletter 25, no. 3 (2008): 6-12.
“Why did the United States overthrow the Prime Minister of Iran in 1953?.” Journal of Associated
Graduate Students of Near Eastern Studies 13, no. 2 (2008): 3-22.
“15 Years after the “Collapse” of Soviet Socialism: The Role of Elite Choices, Class Conflict, and a
Critique of Modernization Theory.” Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Working
Paper Series (February 2008), 1-31.
“Explaining the Variation in Political Regime Outcomes after Communism: Displacement of the
Communist Era Nomenklatura and Democratization.” Institute for Slavic, Eastern European, and
Eurasian Studies Newsletter 24, no. 2 (2007): 5-12.
“Reflections on a Central Eurasian Model: A Foucauldian Reply to Barfield on the Historiography of
Ethnonationalism.” Central Eurasian Studies Review 5, no. 2 (2006): 19-25.
“Identity Crisis: Russia’s Muslims in the debate over Russian Identity vis-à-vis Europe.” UC Davis
International Affairs Journal 2, no. 1 (2005): 3-10.
“Perspectives on Assyrian Nationalism.” Hemispheres: Tufts University Journal of International
Affairs 25 (2002): 134-155.
Policy Memos, Commissioned Reports, and Non-Refereed Articles
“How Immigration Aids Russia’s Transformation into an Assimilationist Nation-State.” PONARS
Eurasia Policy Memo, no. 347 (2014): 1-6.
“Türk-Rus İlişkilerinin Realist Bir Değerlendirmesi, 2002-2012: Zirveden Dibe Mi?.” Hazar Raporu,
no.3 (2013): 55-70.
“A Realist Reassessment of Turkish-Russian Relations, 2002-2012: From the Peak to the Dip?.”
Caspian Strategy Institute (2013): 1-24.
Book Chapters
“Milliyetçilik ve Etnik Çatışmalar.” in Şaban Kardaş and Ali Balcı (eds.), Uluslararası İlişkilere Giriş
(Istanbul: Küre, 2014): 419-426.
“Vaka Analizi.” in Ali Çarkoğlu (ed.), Uluslararası İlişkilerde Araştırma Yöntemleri (Eskişehir:
Anadolu Üniversitesi, 2012): 92-121.
“Çoklu Yöntem Yaklaşımları.” (with Belgin Şan Akça) in Ali Çarkoğlu (ed.), Uluslararası İlişkilerde
Araştırma Yöntemleri (Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2012): 212-241.
“Politics of History in Turkey: Revisionist Historiography’s Challenge to the Official Version of the
Turkish War of Liberation (1919-1922).” in Alexei Miller and Maria Lipman (eds.), Convolutions of
Historical Politics, (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2012): 279-308.
“Istoricheskai politika v Turtsii: revizionistskaia istoriografiia brosaet vyzov ofitsial’noi versii voiny
Turtsii za nezavisimost’.” in Alexei Miller and Maria Lipman (eds.), Istoricheskaia politik v 21-m veke,
(Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2012): 506-542.
“İslamcılığın Kürt Açılımı.” in Seyfullah Özkurt (ed.), İslamcılık Tartışmaları (İstanbul: Ufuk, 2012):
297-301.
“Türkiye’de Kürt Kimliğinin Siyasallaşma Süreci: 1918-2008.” in Rasim Özgür Dönmez, Pınar Enneli,
Nezahat Altuntaş (eds.), Türkiye’de Kesisen-Çatısan Dinsel ve Etnik Kimlikler (Istanbul: Say, 2010):
83-114.
“What is a Civilization? From Braudel to Elias the Varying Definitions of 'Civilization'.” In Muzaffer
Senel and Sadik Unay (eds.). Global Orders and Civilizations: Perspectives from History, Philosophy
and International Relations (New York: Nova Publishers, 2009): 49-66.
“Türkiye Siyasetinde Alevi ve Kürt Talepleri: Anti-Etnik bir Rejimde Etnik Muhalefet, 1923-1980.” In
Ayşegül Komsuoğlu (ed.). Türkiye’de Siyasal Muhalefet (Istanbul: Bengi, 2008): 315-349.
“Living at and beyond the Grenzenpunkte: A Comparison of Nietzsche’s Artistic Socrates and
Kierkegaard’s knight of faith.” In Stephen Voss (ed.). The Proceedings of the twenty-first World
Congress of Philosophy, Volume 9: Philosophical Anthropology (Ankara: Philosophical Society of
Turkey, 2006): 51-62.
“Perspectives on Daniel Bell’s East Asian Challenge to Human Rights: East Asian Challenge or
Alternative Trends within Modern Thought?.” in Zeynep Davran and Stephen Voss (eds.), The
Proceedings of the twenty-first World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 3: Human Rights (Ankara:
Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2006): 37-44.
Book Reviews
M. Steven Fish, Are Muslims Distinctive? A Look at the Evidence, Perceptions 17, no. 1 (2012): 110-113.
Ahmet T. Kuru, Pasif ve Dışlayıcı Laiklik: ABD, Fransa, Türkiye, “Üç Ülkede Laiklik,” Radikal Kitap,
October 14, 2011.
Roland Dannreuther and Luke March (eds.), Russia and Islam: State, Society, and Radicalism, Russian
Review 70, no. 3 (2011):
Frank Grüner, Patrioten und Kosmopoliten: Juden im Sowjetstaat 1941-1953, Cold War Studies 12, no.
4 (2010): 205-207
John Erik Fossum, Johanne Poirier, Paul Magnette (eds.), The Ties that Bind: Accommodating Diversity
in Canada and the European Union, Insight Turkey 12, no. 2 (2010):
Gwendolyn Sasse, The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict, Comparative Political
Studies, Vol.42, No.3, March 2009, pp.464-467.
Asa Lundgren, The Unwelcome Neighbour: Turkey's Kurdish Policy, Nationalities Papers 37, no. 2
(2009):
James N. Rosenau, David C. Earnest, Yale H. Ferguson, and Ole R. Holsti, On the Cutting Edge of
Globalization: An Inquiry into American Elites, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 37, no. 1
(2008): 236-237.
Irina Mukhina, The Germans of the Soviet Union, Europe-Asia Studies 60, no. 4 (2008): 696-698.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude, Rethinking Marxism 19, no. 2 (2007): 275-277.
Ayse Ayata, Ayca Ergun, and Isil Celimli (eds.), Black Sea Politics: Political Culture and Civil Society
in an Unstable Region, Europe-Asia Studies, July 2006.
Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century, Nationalities Papers 33, no. 4 (2005): 601-603.
(with Kate Graney) Shireen Hunter, Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security, Eurasian
Geography and Economics 46, no. 4 (2005): 319-325.
Encyclopedia Articles and Other Contributions to Reference Books
“Post-Soviet Eastern Europe” and “Post-Soviet Central Asia”, in Fred Nadis and Jack Waskey, eds.
World History Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2011): 345-349.
“Contract Enforcement” in Mark Bevir ed., Encyclopedia of Governance, Sage Publications, 2006.
“Iran” (with Payam Foroughi) in M. Odekon ed., Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Sage, 2006.
Provided an expert evaluation of parliamentary powers in “Cyprus”, “Turkey”, “Turkmenistan”, and
“Saudi Arabia”, for M. Steven Fish an Matthew Kroenig (eds.), The Handbook of National
Legislatures: A Global Survey, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Newspaper Articles & Public Interviews
Contributed opinion pieces in Turkish to daily newspapers Radikal, Sabah, Star, Taraf, Yeni Safak,
Zaman; opinion pieces in English to Hürriyet Daily News and Today’s Zaman
Appeared on various Turkish national TV stations as a guest commentator including in AHaber,
CNNTürk, Habertürk, Sky360, TRT Haber, TVNet, TGRT Haber, TRT Türk, The Real News Network;
and gave interviews to the newspapers, AGOS, Daily Sabah, Hürriyet Pazar, Sabah, Yeni Asya, Zaman