Senem Aydın-Düzgit

Senem Aydın-Düzgit is a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University and 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 based at the Harvard Kennedy School as the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor of Public Policy, and in 2023-2024, she was a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.

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 research and published in the field of international democracy support, both in the context of European foreign policy through enlargement and Turkish foreign policy. IShe holds a Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from Boğaziçi University.

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, Third World Quarterly, and West European Politics. She is the author of Turkey and the European Union (with Nathalie Tocci) (Palgrave, 2015) and Constructions of European Identity (Palgrave, 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) and an academic advisory board member of the Institüt für Europaische Politik. She also serves as 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. She was awarded the Young Scientist Award of Turkey’s Science Academy (BAGEP) in 2014.