Dr.in
Zeynep Arkan Tuncel
Visiting Fellow
Dr.in Zeynep Arkan Tuncel is a Visiting Fellow at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs – oiip – and Associate Professor of International Relations at Hacettepe University. Ankara. Her research interests include:
- EU foreign and security policy and hybrid threats
- Turkish foreign policy
- Critical IR theories
- The role of identity, discourses and narratives in foreign policy
Vita
Education
- PhD in International Relations, University of Kent (Canterbury), 2012
- MA in European Studies, University of Exeter (Exeter), 2001
- BSc in Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University (Ankara), 1999
Work Experience
- Associate Professor of International Relations, Hacettepe University (Ankara), 2017 – present
- Director, Centre for Research on EU Studies, Hacettepe University (Ankara), 2017 – 2024
- Lecturer, Hacettepe University (Ankara), 2013-2017
- Part-Time Lecturer, Bilkent University (Ankara), 2012-2013
- Part-Time Lecturer, Izmir University of Economics (Izmir), 2011-2012
- Sessional Teacher, University of Kent (Canterbury), 2007-2010
- Research Assistant, Hacettepe University (Ankara), 2004-2007
- Researcher, Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (Ankara), 2001-2004
- Stagiaire, Council of Europe (Strasbourg), 2000-2001
Publications
Books
- Zeynep Arkan Tuncel, European Security and Hybrid Threats: A Narrative in the Making. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
- Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan (eds.), The EU and Member State Building: European Foreign Policy and Intervention in the Western Balkans. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Book Chapters
- Zeynep Arkan Tuncel, “Security within and beyond the Borders of Europe: Locating the European Union as a Security Actor,” in Routledge Handbook on EU-Middle East Relations, eds. Dimitris Bouris, Daniela Huber, Michelle Pace. New York: Routledge, 2022.
- Zeynep Arkan Tuncel, Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Post-Yugoslav States: Regional Contender or Ally for the European Union?,” in Great Powers in the Post-Yugoslav States. Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2022.
- Zeynep Arkan Tuncel, “Hybrid Threats and Justice and Home Affairs: The Case of Migration Policy,” in Europe’s Trial with Hybrid Threats: What Kind of Power does the EU Need?, ed. Giray Sadık. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
- Zeynep Arkan and Soeren Keil, "The Role of Discursive Consistency in EU Foreign Policy: An Analysis of EU Enlargement Policy toward the Western Balkans,” in The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and Refugees, ed. Henry Carey. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017.
- Zeynep Arkan and Işık Gürleyen, “The Europeanization of Education in Turkey,” in The Europeanization of Turkish Public Policies, eds. Aylin Güney and Ali Tekin. New York: Routledge, 2016.
- Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan, “Introduction: European Union Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans,” in The EU and Member State Building: European Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans, eds. Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan. New York: Routledge, 2015.
- Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan, “The Limits of Normative Power?: EU Member State Building in the Western Balkans,” in The EU and Member State Building: European Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans, eds. Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan. New York: Routledge, 2015.
- Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan, “Theory and Practice of Member State Building in the Western Balkans,” in The EU and Member State Building: European Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans, eds. Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Articles
- Zeynep Arkan Tuncel, “A Change of Season? Turkish Foreign Policy in the Period of ‘Strange New Multipolarity,” Reflections, 1:1 (June 2024).
- Murat Önsoy and Zeynep Arkan, “The Case of the Western Balkan Roma: A Litmus Test for Normative Power Europe?,” Hacettepe Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi,35:1 (2017).
- Zeynep Arkan and Müge Kınacıoğlu, “Enabling ‘Ambitious Activism’: Davutoğlu’s Vision of a New Foreign Policy Identity for Turkey,” Turkish Studies, 17:3 (2016). DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2016.1185943
- Zeynep Arkan, “Imagining ‘Europe’: Constituting Turkey’s Identity on the Path to EU Membership, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 107:2, 134-146 (2016). DOI:10.1111/tesg.12180
- Zeynep Arkan, “‘Via Media’ vs. The Critical Path: Constructivism(s) and the Case of EU Identity,” All Azimuth, 3:2 (July 2014).
- Zeynep Arkan, “Defining ‘Europe’ and ‘Europeans’: Constructing Identity in the Education Policy of the European Union,” Federal Governance, 10:2 (2013).
- Zeynep Arkan, “Avrupa Birliği’nde Reform Hareketleri: Lizbon Stratejisi ve Barselona Zirvesi (Reform Moves within the European Union: Lisbon Strategy and the Barcelona Summit),” Stratejik Analiz, 2:25 (Mayıs 2002).
- Zeynep Arkan, “Blair Unsuru (The Blair Effect),” Stratejik Analiz, 2:19 (Kasım 2001).
- Zeynep Arkan, “Atlantiğin İki Tarafını Karşı Karşıya Getiren Dava: General Electric’in Honeywell’i Devralması (The Case that Pitted Two Sides of the Atlantic Against Each Other: General Electric’s Honeywell Takeover),” Stratejik Analiz, 2:17 (Eylül 2001).
Working Papers
- Murat Önsoy and Zeynep Arkan, “EU’s Normative Power in Action: Minority Rights Conditionality and the Western Balkan Roma,” Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg – ZEUS-IFSH Working Paper, No. 10 (January 2016).