Zeynep Kaya is a Research Officer at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security and Research Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. She is also a Fellow for LSE100-The LSE Course.
Dr Kaya’s research interests focus on gender and conflict/post-conflict in the Middle East and the implementation of the WPS agenda in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Dr Kaya’s wider research interests are in the international politics of the Middle East with a focus on Kurdish politics in Iraq, Syria and Turkey and she looks at non-national actors’ use of international norms of democracy, self-determination and gender.
Dr Kaya was the Principal Investigator for the research project on internal and external factors that shape the international-local interaction on the adoption and use of international gender norms in Iraqi Kurdistan. The project was completed in April 2016. Dr Kaya will start leading a new project at the LSE Middle East Centre on internal displacement in Iraqi Kurdistan in September 2016.
Selected recent articles and reports
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Kaya, Zeynep (2016) Women, peace and security in Iraq: report on Iraq’s National Action Plan to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. LSE Middle East Centre Report, Middle East Centre, LSE, London.
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Kaya, Zeynep (ed.) (2016) The AKP and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East, Collected Papers, Vol. 5. Middle East Centre, LSE, London.
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Kaya, Zeynep and Lowe, Robert (2016) The curious question of the PYD-PKK relationship In: Stansfield, G and Shareef, M (eds.) The Kurdish Question Revisited. Hurst, London, UK. ISBN 9781849045629. (In print)
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Kaya, Zeynep (2016) Why women are better off in Iraqi Kurdistan than the rest of Iraq: International factors. Middle East Centre Paper Series, LSE, London. (Forthcoming)
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Kaya, Zeynep and Keranen, Outi (2015) Constructing identity through symbols by groups demanding self-determination: Bosnian Serbs and Iraqi KurdsEthnopolitics, 14 (5). 505-512. ISSN 1744-9057
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Kaya, Zeynep (2014) Statebuilding and Gender in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq since 2003, Workshop Report, Middle East Centre, LSE, London.
Selected blogs and op-eds