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Ali Balcı is a Professor of International Relations at Sakarya University’s Department of International Relations, where he has taught since 2004. His research focuses on high-level leader diplomacy, the UN Security Council, Ottoman international politics, and theories of international relations. He is the recipient of a Jean Monnet Chair awarded by the European Commission (2025–2028) and an elected associate member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA).
Research Interests
Education
Ph.D., International Relations
Dissertation: A Periodization of State Discourse in Republican Turkey: A Foucauldian Approach
M.S., International Relations
B.A., International Relations
Visiting Scholar
Visiting Scholar
Awards & Fellowships
2025–2028Jean Monnet Chair, European Union Commission (€60,000)
2023–2028Elected Associate Member, Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA)
2025–2027TÜBİTAK 3005 Research Grant, Social Sciences & Humanities (₺1,000,000)
2019–2022Outstanding Young Scientist Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA)
2015–2016TÜBİTAK 2219 International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (€27,000), Columbia University
2018–2019TÜBİTAK 1002 Short Term R&D Funding Grant (€5,500)
2011–2012Postdoctoral Research Scholarship, Turkey’s Council of Higher Education
Books
The PKK–Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Regional Politics: During and After the Cold War
Palgrave Macmillan, New York · 2017
Türkiye Dış Politikası: Aktörler, İlkeler ve Uygulamalar
Kronik Kitap, İstanbul · 2025 (9th Edition)
Birleşmiş Milletler Güvenlik Konseyi: Eleştirel Bir Giriş
İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları · 2024
Ortadoğu ve Postkolonyalizm
Pınar Yayınları, İstanbul · 2018 (2nd Edition)
Dış Politikada Hesaplaşmak: AK Parti, Ordu ve Kemalizm
Etkileşim Yayınları, İstanbul · 2015
(Ed. with Şaban Kardaş) Uluslararası İlişkilere Giriş: Tarih, Kavram, Konu ve Uygulamalar
Kure Yayınları, İstanbul · 2022 (16th Edition)
Türkiye’de Militarist Devlet Söylemi 1960–1983
Kadim Yayınları, Ankara · 2011
Selected Journal Articles
“The Power of Disrespect: Overt Impoliteness and Hierarchy in Leader-Level Diplomacy” (with Taş-Yetim & Dinler)
British Journal of Politics and International Relations · 2025
“High-level Leader Visits: A Promising Area of Study in IR” (with Kim, Moyer et al.)
International Studies Perspectives · 2025
“Giving a Hand to Autocrats: Are Russia’s High-Level Visits for Authoritarian Durability?” (with Aras)
Journal of Peace Research · 2025
“Beyond Direct Contact: Reconceptualizing ‘Acculturation’ in Postcolonial Tunisia” (with Köktaş)
Third World Quarterly · 2025
“Love Money or Fame? Determinants of Turkey’s Leader Visits” (with Pulat)
International Studies Quarterly · 2024
“The Ottoman International System: Power Projection, Interconnectedness, and the Autonomy of Frontier Polities” (with T. Kardaş)
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 51(3) · 2023
“The Ruling Group Survival: Why Pakistan and Hungary Move Away from the US-led Order?” (with Yolcu)
Foreign Policy Analysis, 19(1) · 2023
“Controlling International Institutions: How the US Engineered UNSC Non-Permanent Members in the Early Cold War”
Global Policy, 13(2) · 2022
“Algeria in Declining Ottoman Hierarchy: Why Algiers Remained Loyal to the Falling Patron?”
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 35(3) · 2022
“Bringing the Ottoman Order back into IR: A Distinct International Order or Part of an Islamic International Society?”
International Studies Review, 23(4) · 2021
Editorial & Service
Advisory Board — All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace
Editor — Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Assistant Editor — Insight Turkey
Editor — Ortadogu Analiz
Peer Review Record
Ali hocam merhaba. Ben İngiliz Edebiyatı mezunuyum ve Dış İşleri Bakanlığının sınavlarına hazırlanmayı düşünüyorum. Sınav içeriği Türk Dış Politikası olacaktır. Sıfırdan başlayıp bu alanı öğrenmek için başlangıç düzeyi ve devamında daha detaylı bir veya birkaç kitap önerebilir misiniz? Şimdiden çok teşekkür ederim.