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Nilufer Gunes

PhD Candidate
About

About

Nilüfer is a PhD candidate at the European Institute.

Her research studies the agency of emerging powers, exploring the concept of middle powers through the lens of the Global International Relations (IR) agenda. Specifically, she examines how reformist middle powers, like Turkey, seek to resist and reshape the Western liberal order in response to their marginalization from dominant power structures. Her research focuses on Turkish foreign policy analysing its middle power agency in peace-building mediation, international aid provision and regional activism.

Nilüfer holds a research Master’s in International Relations with Distinction from the London School of Economics and a Master’s in International Political Economy from King’s College London. She has previously completed her BA (Hons) in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.

Nilüfer’s doctoral studies are funded by an LSE Studentship.

Teaching: IR315 - International Relations of the Middle East


Expertise:

  • Critical International Relations Theory
  • Emerging Powers
  • Turkish Foreign Policy
  • Middle Eastern Studies