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Turkey, Power and the West: Gendered International Relations and Foreign Policy

Publisher: I.B.Tauris (30 July 2016)

Author: Ali Bilgic

During the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdodan and the AKP, the Turkish government shifted from a 'reactive' to an 'activist' foreign policy. As a result, many in the West increasingly began to see Turkey as a key actor in the international relations of the region, and indeed the wider international stage.

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Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration

Publisher: 2013 by Routledge

Author:  Ali Bilgic

Migration and especially irregular migration are politically sensitive and highly debated issues in the developed world, particularly in Europe. This book analyses irregular protection-seeking migration in Europe, with close attention to sub-Saharan migration into the EU, from the perspective of emancipatory security theory.

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Books

  • Positive Security: Collective Life in an Uncertain World (co-authored Gunhild G.Hoogensen), London: Routledge, 2022
  • Turkey, Power and the West: Gendered International Relations and Foreign Policy, London: I.B. Tauris, 2016.
  • Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration (2018, 2nd edition): Trust and Emancipation in Europe, London: Routledge, 2013.  

Selected Journal Articles

  • (2026) Ontological (In)Security After Truth: Disinformation as an Affective Technology, Cooperation and Conflict
  • (2025) Queering Ontological (In)Security: A Psychoanalysis of Political Homophobia, Critical Studies on Security, Critical Studies on Security, Vol.13 no: 3, 367-382.
  • (2023) Becoming a Humanitarian State: A performative analysis of ‘status-seeking’ as statecraft in world politics, Review of International Studies, Vol.50 no: 4, 700-719.
  • (2022) “Desires, Fantasies, and Hierarchies: Postcolonial Status Anxiety through Ontological Security”, Alternatives, Special Issue Governing and Navigating Subjects in the Age of 'Permanent Anxieties': National, Regional, and Global Perspectives (with Jordan Pilcher).
  • (2022) “Turkey’s Antarctic Quest: Historical Legacies, Geopolitical Ambitions”, RUSI Journal, Vol. 166 no: 6-7, 64-72.
  • (2021) “Who is entitled to feel in the age of populism?: Women’s Resistance to Migrant Detention in Britain”, International Affairs, Vol. 97 no: 2, 483-502.  (with Athina Gkouti) (Included in the Chatham House Reflections at 100 series)