I guess this is the end of an era. I defended my Ph.D. dissertation today. Here are the photos of my village as it always takes one.
#PhDone
#phdlife
@PhdDone
🫶🥳🍀
Breaking good news! I've received the
@IsaMidwest
Margaret Hermann Award for the 2nd year in a row for my paper "Deciphering Political Islamists’ Rhetoric in Their Native Language: A Turkish Operational Code Analysis Approach." H/T to the award committee &
@FPA_ISA
colleagues.😊
Our book received an accolade! I &
@OzgurOzdamar
are delighted that Leaders in the Middle East & North Africa is the co-winner of
@isanet
@FPA_ISA
Section's 2023 Best Book Award.
@CambridgeUP
Kitabımız ISA FPA En İyi Kitap Ödülü'nü kazandı. Bayrak asmak için harika zamanlar.🇹🇷💯
Thrilled on steroids to learn that I received the
@UConn
2021 University Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from
@uconncetl
. It’s an honor that I will cherish & strive to pay forward. Thanks
@UConn
for providing copacetic research & learning climate for its students and faculty.
Receiving the Margaret Hermann award in person and cherishing the moment with super supportive and close-knit
@IsaMidwest
scholars last night was such a boon in these new normal times. Happy as a clam.🦪🤓
Delighted to discover that our article (with Profs
@oksanbayulgen
and
@askveoburcinler
) on authoritarian resilience won the Polity Prize for the best article published there in 2018.🥳 Seeing the past winners e.g., Profs
@CameronThies
, Kalyvas, Katznelson &more, I’m gobsmacked.😇
TFW you have just seen the cover of your first book with blurbs from the luminaries of the field. 😊H/T
@JKaarbo
& et al. (Twitter-less)
Pek yakında (Güz 2023) çıkacak kitabımızın kapağı ve tanıtım yazıları bizi mutlu etti. Artık gün sayabiliriz sanırım
@OzgurOzdamar
hocam?🤓🖖🏼
Delighted to join the ranks of the Centre in Modern Turkish Studies
@MTSCarleton
as a non-resident Fellow. I'll be learning a whole heap from the distinguished MTS team this year.
@CU_NPSIA
@Carleton_U
We are pleased to announce that Prof.
@sinemacikmese
and Dr.
@GaberYevgeniya
have joined MTS as non-resident Senior Fellows and
@CanbolatSercan
as non-resident Fellow. Watch this space for upcoming interviews with our new fellows and more!
TFW my birthday today coincides with some great news😊: my
@isanet
-Midwest paper⬇️ is accepted for publication in a forthcoming
@Rout_PoliticsIR
volume "Operational Code Analysis and Foreign Policy Roles: Crossing Simon’s Bridge" edited by Profs Stephen Walker & Mark Schafer.1/2
New article, Systemism & International Relations, published in
@IntlStudiesRev
today.
In it, we put IR theory works in contact with studies on FPA, forecasting, & conflict processes to show how systemism can enhance communication throughout IR. 1/4
And, the beginning of a new era. 📢🥁 Today, I started my Post-Doctoral Research Associate position at UConn Global
@UConnGlobal
as the Inaugural Director of Abrahamic Programs for Academic Collaboration in the MENA Region at University of Connecticut!
I guess this is the end of an era. I defended my Ph.D. dissertation today. Here are the photos of my village as it always takes one.
#PhDone
#phdlife
@PhdDone
🫶🥳🍀
Exciting news amidst a rough patch! I'm delighted to see my research "Understanding Political Islamists’ Foreign Policy Rhetoric in Their Native Language: A Turkish Operational Code Analysis Approach" published in the latest
@APSAMENA
Newsletter: 1/3
TFW you find your latest work in your doorstep delivered on Easter Sunday instead of some dyed eggs. A problem worth proposing a toast with friends.🍾🤓
#Easter
#EasterEggStrike
Piggybacking on published research, my two cents on the political psychology of late
#AlQaeda
chief
#Zawahiri
. I profiled Zawahiri and measured his operational codes via linguistic analysis of his speeches in Arabic along with 5 other jihadist leaders in the MENA region. 1/6
"Myth 1: Most Syrian refugees are fleeing Assad... In our sample, only 16% lay the blame exclusively with the Assad regime, compared to 77% who said they're fleeing from both the regime & the armed opposition." By
@MaxAbrahms
et al. (2017)
@ForeignAffairs
🚨New Publication Alert!🚨Tickled pink to see my latest work (co-authored with Profs Sarah Gansen and Patrick James of
@uscpoir
@USC
) published in Canadian Foreign Policy Journal
#CFPJ
today.
📢New Publication Alert 🚨 Chuffed to see our (w/
@sbdyson
) article "Dominating the Superpower" published in
@uidergisi
today. We employed Op-Code & Game Theory to address: Why was the U.S. unable to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons? 1/5
Stoked about our
@FPA_ISA
panel at
#ISA2022
in Nashville! Dr.
@OzgurOzdamar
& I are presenting a compendium of our work, Leaders in the MENA: How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy, which received a book contract f/ Cambridge Uni. Press
@CambridgeUP
. Will be my very first book! 😇📝
Deprem bölgesinde yaşayan yakınlarımı soranlara teşekkür ederim. İyi olduklarını haber alana kadar dünyanın öbür ucundan onlara ulaşmaya çalışırken henüz 10 yaşında iken yaşadığım 1998 Adana-Ceyhan depreminin travması şiddetli bir şekilde nüksetti. Hepimize geçmiş olsun.
#deprem
Thrilled on steroids to learn that I received the
@UConn
2021 University Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from
@uconncetl
. It’s an honor that I will cherish & strive to pay forward. Thanks
@UConn
for providing copacetic research & learning climate for its students and faculty.
Building on published work, some insights about decision-making styles of
#Hamas
leader Meshaal & late
#PIJ
chief Shalah. I profiled them via content analysis of their speeches in Arabic along with 4 other armed non-state actors (ANSA) leaders in MENA. 1/7
Looking forward to giving my first book talk (“Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa” w/
@OzgurOzdamar
) at
@Middlebury
College this Thursday. Nifty reason to visit beautiful Vermont at this time of the year. 🙂
Hearty thanks to
@sebnemisback
for the kind invitation.
Libya/Haftar Tread.
1/ While everyone fixed
#Iran
with a gaze, another potential flashpoint of the MidEast might be
#Libya
. The raging battle between Tripoli & Tobruk forces is morphing into a regional conflict following Turkey's intervention against
#Egypt
#UAE
#Haftar
axis.
🚨
@Rout_PoliticsIR
"Operational Code Analysis and Foreign Policy Roles" is now out as online & hard-copy. Just in time as
#ISA2021
@isanet
& the panel honoring Dr. Schafer's distinguished
@FPA_ISA
scholarship draw near. Thrilled to have a chapter in it. 1/
Happy to see our book with Dr.
@OzgurOzdamar
, Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa: How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy, is now in the production stage at
@CambridgeUP
while it is presented at 11th EPSC
@NYUAbuDhabi
.
@MariaSoleMarsh
PC: Dr. Emre Hatipoğlu.
Just got the scoop that our
@Rout_PoliticsIR
-sealed
edited volume "Operational Code Analysis and Foreign Policy Roles: Crossing Simon’s Bridge" is now born (virtually). It will be out on Feb 1, 2021.
TFW my birthday today coincides with some great news😊: my
@isanet
-Midwest paper⬇️ is accepted for publication in a forthcoming
@Rout_PoliticsIR
volume "Operational Code Analysis and Foreign Policy Roles: Crossing Simon’s Bridge" edited by Profs Stephen Walker & Mark Schafer.1/2
New publication and happy Friday alert: I'm elated to share that my new co-authored (w/ Sarah Gansen & Patrick James
@uscpoir
@USCDornsife
) paper "Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication" is accepted & forthcoming
@IntlStudiesRev
.1/2
The season’s first great news: I’ll be contributing to an
@IntlStudiesRev
forum “Coding in Tongues: Developing Non-English Coding Schemes for Leadership Profiling" with 2 papers: Profiling Leaders in Arabic (solo); Profiling Leaders in Turkish (w/ Profs
@OzgurOzdamar
and Young)🤓
My day was off to a good start at
@elonuniversity
via Zoom. H/T Dr.
@baris_kesgin
for inviting me to his "Profiling Political Leaders" class. We talked about operational codes, automated text analysis beyond the Anglosphere and MENA leaders. I tried to "field" their questions.🙂
"Bugün dost yaralanmış
Yine gönlüm hoş değil
Her yanı pârelenmiş
Yine gönlüm hoş değil
Akarsuyum yansam da
Kül olup savrulsam da
Bazı bazı gülsem de
Yine gönlüm hoş değil"
Madımak'ta eşi ile birlikte yanarak ölen değerli sanatçı Muhlis Akarsu'nun kaleminden.
#unutMADIMAKl
ımda
Our
@IntlStudiesRev
forum with Profs Brummer, Young,
@OzgurOzdamar
et al. “Coding in Tongues: Developing Non-English Coding Schemes for Leadership Profiling” has fully fledged with a volume & issue number this month. Happy to provide some unwalled copies.
As the rules of engagement between
#Iran
&
#Israel
changed w/ today's attacks, what would be their main policy preferences? Analyzing ideological & actor-specific sources of foreign policy behavior in MENA, our book (w/
@OzgurOzdamar
) offers some insights
Why does Hamas double down on escalation with Israel despite the power asymmetry and fog-of-war? While other accounts have their own merits, FPA's actor-specific theories placing individual leaders at the center of analysis also have explanatory & predictive power. Examples? 1/4
September is off to a good start. My book chapter titled “Palestinian Literature: A Political Psychology Approach” is published in an edited volume, The Exiled Prophet, both in English and Arabic texts. // بدأت شهر أيلول جيدًا. لقد نشرت فصلاً كتابياً باللغتين الإنجليزية والعربية.
Got vaccinated today - about time to steer clear of the
#covid_19
, hopefully. 💉🤞🏼Because it was a
#pfizerbiontech
vaccine, I would be remiss to not salute the Turkish-German architects of the Pfizer vaccine, Doctors #özlemtüreci and
#u
ğurşahin. 👏🏼🍀🧿🇹🇷
Newly-minted publication alert! The
@IntlStudiesRev
forum "Coding in Tongues: Developing Non-English Coding Schemes for Leadership Profiling" is out as online first. If FPA and leadership studies are of any interest, this forum is right up your alley.
Mezunu olmaktan gurur duyduğum
@BilkentUniv
Dergi Bilkent'in son sayısında
@OzgurOzdamar
hocamla yazdığımız "Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika'da Liderler" kitabına da yer vermiş. Serdar ve
@efetokdemir
gibi hocalarımızla aynı sayfada buluşmak da ayrıca güzel. 😊🖖
New Publication Alert! 🤓 My co-authored paper (with Profs. Bayulgen and Arbatli) is published at the NPSA's journal Polity: .
Our article deals in resilience in hybrid regimes and backsliding and derives hypotheses from Erdogan's rule in Turkey.
Having supportive and cordial associates makes a big difference in academia. My co-author & senior colleague Dr. Michael Young of SUNY
@ualbany
who drove all the day from Albany to Storrs, with his wife Michelle, for buckling down to our project is one those great colleagues.👏🏼😇
There is an unprecedented hustle & bustle at
@UConn
Storrs campus today. We are poised for hosting
@POTUS
Biden soon at
@UConnHRI
@UConnGlobal
for his “Human Rights for the Next Generation” speech. Another fine day for the students of leadership studies & linguistic analysis. 🤓
“New directions for leader personality research: breaking bad in foreign policy” by Prof.
@JKaarbo
in
@IAJournal_CH
. “Breaking bad” might be the best idiom & metaphor on this research topic, at least for the BB fans. 🙂
Delighted to receive another letter of “excellence in teaching” from the Provost office at
@UConn
. I apprize this letter dearly as it was my very first time teaching “Intro to IR.” I liked the course and my students a lot as our slick group photo can attest to that. 🤓
Great new Role Theory research by
@kilic_cagla
& Dr.
@CameronThies
in
@Journal_of_GSS
. "We find that 1) Xi Jinping seems to be experiencing a much higher amount of role contestation...2)certain roles, such as developer, Tianxia, are consistent over time."
While my 2021 has been a mixed bag like many of us in the pandemic times, I'm getting my kicks from reading the official student evals for the 3 courses that I taught at
@UConnStamford
this semester. 🤓 The overall ratings for all classes are above the mean scores. Made my day!🖖
A breath of fresh air in trying (grad school) times. 😌 Just received a letter of 'Excellence in Teaching' letter from the
@UConn
Provost's office for my first-time-ever teaching of Introduction to Comparative Politics at
@UConnHartford
.
Rolling up my sleeves for
#ISAMidwest2019
. It's gonna be the most chock-full conference ever for me, yet hoping to rise to the challenge.🤓Kudos to Dr.
@baris_kesgin
for crafting an amazing program. Also happy to see good friends (like
@emir__yazici
) & make new ones in St Louis.
New co-aut. chapter w/ Dr.
@BalkanDevlen
“Historical Foundations of American Foreign Policy” in American Foreign Policy edited by Profs
@profdrmaydin
& Doğan (Anadolu Uni. Press, 2020). Gobsmacked to work with esteemed scholars including++
I and Dr. Daniel Weiner co-authored this
@NYPostOpinion
piece to relay how we think about the
#MENA
region at UConn Abrahamic Programs. We believe the Israel-Hamas war made our Abrahamic work even more important and apropos.
@nypost
@UConnGlobal
@UConn
More data points for the "audience matters" argument in leaders' rhetoric & sense-making. In my
@APSAMENA
-newsletter piece, I compared a sample Erdogan & Davutoglu's speeches in Turkish to those in English. I also found consequential differences: 1/2
Spot the difference.
Erdogan in English: Hagia Sophia's doors will be, as is the case with all our mosques, wide open to all, whether they be foreign or local, Muslim or non-Muslim.
Erdogan in Arabic: Revival of Hagia Sophia is a sign towards return of freedom to AlAqsa mosque.
A kind reminder to vote for new officers for ISA including the President and At-Large Reps till Dec. 5. I'd like to highlight two individuals whose leadership will make a difference in our community as I, a junior & first-gen scholar from the MENA, have witnessed it first-hand.
I am thrilled to join the inaugural board of The Visual International Relations Project (VIRP) based at
@uscpoir
@USCDornsife
. Looking forward to working with esteemed colleagues
@MarijkeBreuning
,
@jcboucher1
, Annette Freyberg-Inan, Pat James, and more!
ICYM this
#ISA2022
update: Visual International Relations Project (VIRP) & database have now gone online. Chuffed to be a part of the VIRP promising to enhance in-group communication & cross-pollination in the IR field. Kudos to Pat, Sarah &
@uscpoir
dept.
If you're attending
@IsaMidwest
& looking to spice up the 3:30-5:15 slot on Sat, we've got you covered with the Hermann panel on text analysis & leadership studies!🙂Come for our, w/ Profs
@leahcwindsor
@baris_kesgin
, papers, stay for Profs
@SibelOktay
and Hermann's comments.👏
Conflicts in
#MENA
are grabbing the headlines again. Today's escalation in the Israel-Hamas dyad is unprecedented & cataclysmic. Analyzing micro-foundations of state & non-state actors’ behavior in MENA, our book (w/
@OzgurOzdamar
) offers some insights.
That’s a wrap with my POLS 1202: Introduction to Comparative Politics class
@UConnCLAS
@UConn
. I put my “Winter is Coming” outfit to wish them good fortune with the finals winter and how I stan for them as a
#GoT
fan. 🤓
#northremembers
#husky
#uconn
I, Pat James & Sarah Gansen, are thrilled to expand the Visual International Relations Project (VIRP) beyond the Anglo-sphere via a suite of new partnerships. Please check out the CfP for a prospective
@uidergisi
Special Issue on “Visualization and IR in the Digital Age” below.
New call for papers for a Special Issue on "Visualization and International Relations in the Digital Age" to be edited by Patrick James, Sercan Canbolat, and Sarah Gansen. For details 👇
Wrapping up the Fall semester at
@UConnStamford
on a high and Christmassy note thanks to my Zoom background. 🎄❄️Happy to announce that I persevered through teaching three classes this semester while chipping away at other earthly duties. 😇🖖
Many thanks indeed to those who have been keeping abreast of the
#earthquakes
in
#T
ürkiye/
#Turkey
and checking on the well-being of my loved ones residing in the disaster zones. They have been hanging in there! 🍀 1/4.
@MorganLKaplan
I and Dr.
@OzgurOzdamar
presented a compendium of our work, Leaders in the MENA: How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy, which has received a book contract from Cambridge University Press
@CambridgeUP
@CUP_PoliSci
. Cheers for the plug!
It is an authoritative list already. My two-cents worth additions would be the following:
1. The Canny General: Quds Force Commander Ghasem Soleimani by Muhammad Sahimi on
@PBS
:
If you're looking for things to read on Qassem Soleimani and his overall importance, here are three that immediately come to mind (from shortest to longest):
(1) The Shadow Commander, by the inimitable Dexter Filkins for
@NewYorker
:
📌You are invited to the IR-seminar on “The Operational Codes and Formation Patterns of Militant Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa” which will be delivered by Sercan Canbolat (
@CanbolatSercan
)
📅4th May, Tuesday ⏱18.00
For registration➡️
Dr. Margaret Hermann is not only a scholarly force of nature but also a stalwart supporter of junior academics and students. I’ve been fortunate to learn a whole heap from her over the years. Have a terrific retirement, Peg.
Photo:
@PolPsyISPP
2018 Convention, San Antonio, TX.
This
#WomensHistoryMonth
we’re proud to celebrate the retirement of Margaret Hermann, the longtime leader of
@SUMoynihanInst
and an admired teacher, advisor and mentor to countless students in her 25 years at Maxwell. Read more:
@SUPoliSci
And decision-making theories meet Large-N data... New
@PRQjournal
article by Keller, Yang & James interlinking actor-specific theories w/ crisis behavior (ICB) literature. And, delighted to see my name in the acknowledgment section of this great research.😊
Yıllardır takip ettiğim Çukurova Üni’nin doğal güzelliğinin yanında kurumsal olarak da geliştiğini görmek şehrin & ülkenin geleceğine dair umut verdi. Ziyaretimde bana zaman ayırdıkları için Prof
@arikan_harun
@asliilgit
@Y_Alper_Ecevit
@marbodur
hocalarıma teşekkürler.🤓
Darth Vader did not fancy my Christmassy Star Wars outfit but he was “kind” enough to get a New Year photo together and let me leave the ship unscathed. 🤓✨Echoing Darth, wishing you all an “impressive, most impressive” 2024. 🎉🎊
Location credit: Walt Disney World, Orlando.
Happy to spice up this season by partaking in 1) Teaching Peace in the 21st Century: 12th Summer Institute for Faculty
@KrocInstitute
@NotreDame
; 2) 1st Social ComQuant Summer Institute
@SocialComquant
@kocuniversity
. They're both online.
@Zoom
et al. grew on me after all.
Exciting to have
@Yale
Polsci Professor
@ernugent
at
@UConn
today for her super intriguing and timely lecture on “Repression Before and After the Arab Spring.” It was a full house and all-ears-on event.
Yüksek lisans eğitimim sürecinde ve sonrasında çalışmalarıma muazzam katkıları devam eden Dr.
@OzgurOzdamar
hocamı ve
@BilkentIRDept
bölümünü çok tebrik ederim.👏 Öğrenci arkadaşlarımıza da hocamızın ve bölümün Twitter hesabını takip etmelerini tavsiye ediyorum.
@BilkentIRDept
Bölüm Başkanı olarak atanan
@OzgurOzdamar
görevine başladı. Dr. Özdamar'ın web sitesine ve hoş geldiniz mesajına adreslerinden ulaşabilirsiniz.
I cannot be the only one looking forward to the
@IsaMidwest
2023 Conference in MO on Nov 17-19. I'm particularly psyched up for our roundtable on the Visual International Relations Project featuring the IR field's select illustrious scholars & myself. 😊
#ISAMidwest
. h/t
@phoman1
Today marks the end of my weeklong research visit at the
@OhioState
and Social Science Automation(SSA). While celebrating a productive week in the land of Buckeyes, parting photos are in order. 🤓👋🏽
Anyone interested in
#PoliticalPsychology
, Oxford
@OUPPolitics
Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making published 4 newly-minted articles whose foci include expected utility, experimental design, social identity, protests, biopolitics, and more.
.
@OUPPolitics
has published 4 additional articles online from the Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making. As Editor-in-Chief I'm happy to be able to highlight them in this thread.