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Dr.
Cengiz Günay
Director
Dr. Cengiz Günay is Director of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs –oiip – and Lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences, the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Department of International Development and the University of Vienna. In 2018/19 he was a visiting fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nietze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. He is the author of the monographies “Die Geschichte der Türkei. Von den Anfängen der Moderne bis heute”, Wien: Böhlau, UTB, and “From Islamists to Muslim Democrats?” Saarbrücken: VDB. His regionalfocus lies on Turkey and the MENA region. His research interests are:
- Democracy and the rise of new forms of authoritarian governance
- Neoliberal Interventions und their effects on state and statehood
- European Neighbourhood Policy
- Islamism
Vita
Education
- PhD, University of Vienna / Department of Political Sciences, PhD Thesis: “From Islamists to Muslim Democrats”, 2001 – 2005
- University of Vienna / Department of History, Master thesis: “Islam as a political factor in Turkey”, 1994 – 1999
- University of Barcelona / Department of History, EU- Sokrates/Erasmus Programme, 1998 – 1999
- University of Graz / Department of History / Department of Law, 1991 – 1994
Professional Experience
- Director, since 2022
- Vice Director, since 2017
- Senior Fellow Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip), since 2006
Field of Expertise: Middle East and Turkey. Political Systems, Islamist Movements, Socio-Economic and Political Transformation Processes, Democratization, Foreign Policy, EU – Turkey Relations - Lecturer at the University of Vienna, since 2008
- Head of the Austrian Network of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures, since 2012
- Austria Correspondent for CNNTurk, 2002 – 2006
- Certified interpreter and translator for German and Turkish, since 1999
Teaching
- University of Vienna, since 2008
- Department of Development Studies, Department of Political Science, Department for Oriental Studies
- Danube University Krems, since 2008
Publications
Monographs
- Die Geschichte der Türkei. Von den Anfängen der Moderne bis heute, Böhlau, UTB, Beck’sche Reihe, 2012.
- From Islamists to Muslim Democrats? The Trajectory of Islamism in Egypt and Turkey against the Background of Historical, Political and Economic Developments, VDM Saarbrücken, 2008.
Co-Authored Books
- Cengiz Günay und Nina Witjes (eds.) (2017), Border Politics: Defining Spaces of Governance and Forms of Transgressions, Yearbook of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Springer.
- Cengiz Günay; Jan Pospisil (eds.) (2015). Add-On 14/15, Legitimacy beyond normative Orders? Yearbook oiip, Viennese Contributions to International Affairs Vienna: Facultas, January 2015.
- Cengiz Günay; Jan Pospisil (eds.) (2014), Add-On 13/14, Power Shifts. Yearbook oiip, Viennese Contributions to International Affairs Vienna: Facultas, January 2014.
- Cengiz Günay; Jan Pospisil (eds.) (2013), Add-On 12, Viennese Contributions to International Affairs, Yearbook oiip, Vienna: Facultas, January 2013.
Book Chapters
- Cengiz Günay; Carina Radler (2022). Die Türkei – Gatekeeper und Mediator im Ukraine-Krieg. In Heinz Gärtner (ed.). Die Ukraine im Krieg – ist Frieden möglich? Vienna: Lit Verlag
- Cengiz Günay (2019),“Turkey’s Changing Role After the Cold War: From Ideational to Civilizational Geopolitics“, in: Dan Hamilton, Kristina Spohr (eds.), The End of the Cold War, Brookings Press, Washington DC.
- Cengiz Günay (2018), „Die Europäische Nachbarschaftspolitik am Beispiel von Ägypten und Tunesien: eine besondere Form der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit“, Europas innere und äußere Sicherheit, in: Gudrun Biffl (ed.) Zwischen interner Konsolidierung und externer Kooperation, Buch zum Globalisierungsforum, Krems: Donau Universität Krems, 2018.
- Vedran Dzihic, Cengiz Günay (2017), „Die Rückkehr der Grenze – Globale Trends, Regionale Spiegelungen“, in: Friedrich Altenburg; Anna Faustmann, Thomas Pfeffer, Isabella Skrivanek (eds.) Migration und Globalisierung in Zeiten des Umbruchs, Festschrift für Gudrun Biffl, Krems: Donau-Universität Krems, 2017.
- Cengiz Günay (2016), „Beyond Social Movements – Was wurde aus den Gezi Protesten?“ in: Dorothea Stepan, Othmar Karas, Gudrun Biffl, (eds.), Europa und die Globalisierung: Politische Herausforderungen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts. Beiträge aus der Veranstaltungsreihe "Globalisierungsforum" des Zentrums für Europa und Globalisierung am Department für Migration und Globalisierung an der Donau-Universität Krems, Krems: Donau-Universität Krems, 2016.
- Cengiz Günay (2015), “Challenging the EU’s Liberal Peace Model in the Mediterranean”, in: Heinz Gärtner, Jan Willem Honig and Hakan Akbulut (eds.). Democracy, Peace, and Security, New York: Lexington Books, 2015
- Cengiz Günay (2015), “Turkey: A Model for Continuity Rather than Change” in: Larbi Sadiki (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring, London: Routledge, 2015.
- Cengiz Günay (2015), „Die Vervielfältigung religiöser Akteure und die Auswirkungen auf die Legitimierung politischer Herrschaft“ in: Cengiz Günay; Jan Pospisil (eds.) Add-On 14/15, Legitimacy beyond normative Orders? Yearbook oiip, Viennese Contributions to International Affairs, Vienna: Facultas, 2015.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- Christian Haddad, Cengiz Günay, Sherin Gharib & Nadejda Komendantova (2022) Imagined inclusions into a ‘green modernisation’: local politics and global visions of Morocco’s renewable energy transition, Third World Quarterly,43:2, 393-413, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.2014315.
- Tobias Schumacher and Cengiz Günay (2021), Territorial Conflict, Domestic Crisis, and the Covid-19 Pandemic in the South Caucasus. Explaining Variegated EU Responses, Journal of Common Market Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13255.
- Cengiz Günay (2020), Book Review, Identity Politics Inside Out. National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey: by Lisel Hintz, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 220, Global Affairs, Spring 2020
- Cengiz Günay (2019), Tunisia’s Democracy at Risk, Mediterranean Politics, DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2019.1631980.
- Cengiz Günay and Vedran Dzihic (2016), “Decoding the authoritarian code: Exercising ‘legitimate’ power politics through the ruling parties in Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia” Journal for Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol 16, Issue 4, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2016.1242872.
- Cengiz Günay (2016), “Foreign Policy as a Source of Legitimation for ‘Competitive Authoritarian Regimes‘ – the Case of Turkey’s AKP, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Fall 2016.
Other Articles
- Günay, Cengiz; Übleis-Lang Magdalena; Bonat, Julius (2024). The Turkish Diaspora in Austria. CATS Network Paper No.5 /07.05.2024.
- Günay, Cengiz; Reichelt, Sophie (2024). Die türkische Diaspora in Österreich – Was erklärt den Rückhalt Präsident Erdogans? Zwischenräume Policy Brief No.8.
- Winograd, Sophia; Gruarin, Valentina; Günay, Cengiz and Dzihic,Vedran (2023). The future of the transatlantic partnership: US perceptions and debates. oiip – Policy Analysis 10/23. November 2023.
- Günay, Cengiz. (2023). What does Erdoğan’s new term in office mean for EU-Turkey relations? CATS – Center for Applied Turkish Studies Publications.
- Cengiz Günay, Manuel Bonat (2021), Ägyptens neue außen- und regionalpolitische Rolle, oiip – Kurzanalyse 1/ Juni 2021
- Cengiz Günay, Carina Radler (2020), Machtpoker im östlichen Mittelmeer, oiip Kurzanalyse 6 / Dezember
- Cengiz Günay, Vedran Dzihic, Jakob Pallinger und Jonas Nitschke, After the „Point-of-no-return“ – Die Frage des Machtübergangs in kompetitiven autoritären Regimen Szenarien zu Serbien und der Türkei, oiip – AP 109 / September 2020
- Euro-Mediterranean Relations, Democratization and the Role of Civil Society, Quaderns de la Mediterranea 28, Fall 2019.
- The New-Old Elites and their Relations with the EU: The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia, EuroMesco Papers, April 2019.
- „Trumps Nahostpolitik ist Innenpolitik, oiip-Kurzanalyse, April 2019.
- Die lange Geschichte der Militärinterventionen in der Türkei, deutsche Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin, Mai 2018.
- Hakan Akbulut, Vedran Dzihic, Cengiz Günay (2018), „Verliert der Westen an Einfluss?“ oiip – AP 100/2018
- Cengiz Günay, Christian Haddad, Sherin Gharib (2018), “Green growth and its global-local meanings – Insights from Morocco” oiip –AP 103/2018.
- Ehrlicher Makler oder Konkurrenz zur EU? Die Türkei und ihre Rolle auf dem Balkan, Oktober 2018.
- „Wie wirkt sich der Abbau von Demokratie auf das außenpolitische Handeln von Staaten aus? Das Fallbeispiel Türkei, Juni 2018.
- Vedran Dzihic, Cengiz Günay, Daniela Pisoiu“Die Qual der Wahl: Demokratische Wahlen im Zeichen von Autoritarismus und Populismus”, Juni 2018.
- Vedran Dzihic, Cengiz Günay (2018), „Politisches Sein gegen wirtschaftlichen Schein? Die Türkei und ihre Rolle auf dem Balkan, oiip-Kurzanalyse, März 2018.
- Vedran Dzihic, Cengiz Günay, Daniela Pisoiu (2018), “Migration managen? Die Widersprüche der EU-Migrationspolitik und ihre Auswirkungen auf die europäische Nachbarschaft“, Dezember 2018.
- Gruber; Günay, Rizvan et al (2017) “Green Modernization – The political, social and societal setting of Morocco’s solar energy policies”, oiip-Working Paper 97 / 2017.
- Dzihic; Gharib; Günay; Pisoiu (2017), „Der Wandel des Islamismus“, oiip-Working Paper 94 / June 2017.
- “Die Türkei – Wende zum Autoritarismus“ Europäische Rundschau, März 2017.
- Cengiz Günay & Sherin Gharib (2017), “From Persecution to Government – Ennahda’s Claim to Power“, Wolfgang Mühlberger (Ed.) Transformation in Tunisia: The First Five Years, Euromesco, Joint Policy Study 5, January 2017.
- Cengiz Günay (2016), “EU-Türkei Beziehungen: Unterstützung für die demokratischen Kräfte – statt populistischem Türkei-Bashing“ 25 Ideen für Europa anlässlich des 25. Jahrestages der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Europa Politik, Fall 2016.
- “Die Grundlagen für den Aufstieg des Autoritarismus in der Türkei und die Schwächen des autoritären Systems“, in: Hayoz und Kube (eds.) „Illiberal and authoritarian tendencies in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe“ Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, Zürich, Fall 2016.
