تركيا والنظام الدولي الليبرالي: الهيمنة، والمنازعة، وسياسات التعبير منذ عام 1919
Join the LSE Middle East Centre for the launch of Turkey and the Liberal International Order, a new book examining Turkey’s complex and evolving relationship with the liberal international order from the end of the First World War to the present day.
The book explores how Turkey, as a middle power, responded to major global transformations following the First World War, the Second World War and the Cold War by appealing to the dominant principles of liberal internationalism. At the same time, it shows how Turkish political movements and foreign policy actors reinterpreted and challenged these principles, shaping how the liberal international order was understood and implemented in the Turkish context. Drawing on parliamentary records and the writings of key political figures, the book offers a rich historical account of how successive generations of policymakers understood Turkey’s national interest, its place in the international order and its role on the global stage.
Meet our speakers
Marc Sinan Winrow is a Teaching Fellow at SOAS, teaching the International Relations of the Middle East and Risk and Policy Analysis, and he is also a Research Assistant at LSE. He completed his PhD in the Department of International Relations of the LSE. The topic of this talk is based on his first published book, Turkey and the Liberal International Order, published by Agenda in 2025. His research continues to be concentrated on different (post-) liberal conceptions of international order, geopolitics and the history and theory of sovereignty in International Relations, with a focus on Turkey and the southeast European, Eastern Mediterranean and the MENA region.
Ayla Göl is Senior Lecturer and Course Lead for Politics and International Relations at York St John University. She joined the School of Humanities in 2021 and became Course Lead for Politics and International Relations in 2022. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she held an early-career position in the Department of International Relations between 2003 and 2005. Following her time at LSE, she joined the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, where she worked from 2005 to 2018 and served as Director of Graduate Studies between 2015 and 2017. She was also co-convener of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Working Group on International Studies on the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia from 2014 to 2019.
Senem Aydın-Düzgit is Professor of International Relations at Sabancı University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Istanbul Policy Center. She is also a non-resident fellow at the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. Her research focuses on identity, discourse, and history in international politics, with particular attention to European and Turkish foreign policy, as well as the domestic–foreign policy nexus in middle powers. She has also worked extensively on international democracy support.
Meet our Chair
Katerina Dalacoura is Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Director of the LSE Middle East Centre. She held a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust between 2021 and 2024. The project findings will shortly be published as a book monograph by Cambridge University Press, under the title Islamic International Thought in Turkey: History, Civilisation and Nation.
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