Fuat Keyman
Honorary DirectorFuat Keyman is the Director of the Istanbul Policy Center; Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Social Impact, and Professor of International Relations at Sabancı University. Keyman is a leading political scientist in Turkey and an expert on globalization, democratization, international relations, Turkey – EU relations, Turkish foreign policy, and civil society development. He is a member of the Turkish Science Academy. In 2013, he was awarded the Strategic Vision Award for Scientists by TASAM (Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies). He has worked as a member on the Council of Wise People as part of the Peace Process to the Kurdish issue. He also serves on advisory and editorial boards for a number of respected international and national organizations as well as for academic journals. Additionally, he is a member of the scientific advisory boards for Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP) and The Global Centre for Pluralism. He has been the research director for various projects, such as Peter Berger and Samuel Huntington’s Many Globalizations; Strengthening Checks and Balances in Turkey, SIDA, Sweden; Enacting European Citizenship, European Council Framework 7 Project; Mapping Civil Society in Turkey, CIVICUS; and received a prestigious grant on urbanization from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Since 2002, as well as his academic work, Keyman has been sharing his ideas and analysis of Turkey in a global context through various newspaper columns and TV programs.
He is the author and editor of more nearly thirty books, including Future Politics - Globalization, State, Democracy, and Identity (with Evren Balta, 2022); Sekiz Kentin Hikayesi (with Berrin Koyuncu-Lorasdağı, 2020); Kurdish Problem: Local Dynamics and Conflict Resolution (with Ayşe Köse, 2019); Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City (with Nora Fisher-Onar and Susan C. Pearce, 2018), Turkey, The Arab Spring and Beyond (with Bülent Aras, 2016), Global Turkey in Europe 3: Democracy, Trade, and the Kurdish Question in Turkey-EU Relations (2015), Democracy, Identity and Foreign Policy in Turkey (with Şebnem Gümüşçü, 2014); Global Turkey in Europe 2: Energy, Migration, Civil Society and Citizenship Issues in Turkey-EU Relations (2014); Global Turkey in Europe: Political, Economic, and Foreign Policy Dimensions of Turkey’s Evolving Relationship with the EU (2013); Remaking Turkey (in Turkish, 2013); Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey (with Ayşe Kadıoğlu, 2011); Cities: The Transformation of Anatolia, the Future of Turkey (2010); Competing Nationalism in Turkey (2010), Turkey in a Globalizing World (2010); Remaking Turkey, Globalization, Alternative Modernities and Democracy (2008); Turkish Politics in a Changing World (with Ziya Öniş, 2007), Citizenship in a Global World: European Questions and Turkish Experiences (2005); Changing World, Transforming Turkey (2005); Globalization, State, Identity/Difference: Toward a Critical Social Theory of International Relations (1997). Keyman has also authored numerous articles published in prestigious, peer-reviewed international journals such as Journal of Democracy, Third World Quarterly, European Journal of Social Theory, Theory Culture & Society, and Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.
Prior to joining Sabancı University, Keyman taught in the Department of International Relations at Koç University between 2002 and 2010, and in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University between 1994 and 2002. He was also Visiting Professor at Carleton University in the summer of 1997. Keyman holds several post-doctoral fellowships from Wellesley College and Harvard University He received his PhD in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations and Comparative Politics from Carleton University. He completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.
Turkey and the West
The Initiative and the Brookings Institution organized the roundtable discussion “Turkey and the West” with Director Fuat Keyman, Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow Atila Eralp, Brookings Institution Doha Center Nonresident Fellow Galip Dalay, and 2015/16 Mercator-IPC Fellow İlke Toygür on January 14, 2019 in Washington, DC.
Turkey's Refugee Dilemma and Foreign Policy Amidst Regional Turmoil
The Initiative and the Center for American Progress organized the roundtable discussion “Turkey’s Refugee Dilemma and Foreign Policy Amidst Regional Turmoil” with Director Fuat Keyman, Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Alan Makovsky, and Brookings Institution Doha Center Nonresident Fellow Galip Dalay on January 10, 2019 at Center for American Progress, Washington, DC.
2018/19 Mercator-IPC Research Fellowship Program Welcome Event
The new era of the Mercator-IPC Research Fellowship Program within the scope of the IPM-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative, which is in its seventh year, started on October 8, 2018, with the introduction of the program researchers. At the presentation night, the opening speeches were made by Sabancı University Faculty Member and Director Fuat Keyman and Stiftung Mercator Advisory Board Chairman Rüdiger Frohn. After the opening speeches, videos were shown in which senior researchers Atila Eralp and Özcan Mutlu, who will take part in the 2018/19 period of the program, and researchers Annegret Warth, Cem İskender Aydın, Ender Peker, Jannes Tessmann, Joanna Krzeminska, Maissam Nimer and Yohanan Benhaim, summarized their projects.
Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City
The second launch meeting of the book Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City, prepared by Fuat Keyman, Nora Fisher Onar and Susan C. Pearce, was held on Thursday, June 21, 2018, at 17:30 at IPC, Minerva Han.
Mercator-IPC Researchers Alumni Event 2018
The Third Mercator-IPC Researchers Alumni Event took place at Village Park Polonezköy on 18-20 May 2018. The event started with the speeches of Director Fuat Keyman and Dilek Ertükel from the Balance Monitoring Network. During the event, a "Critical Thinking" workshop with Leilani van Rheenen, a "Theatre in Social Research" workshop with Pieter Verstraete, a "Non-Violent Communication" workshop with Burak Ülman and a coffee conversation on "Turkey Barometer" with Tonguç Çoban took place.
Revitalizing Türkiye-EU Relations in a Period of Regional and Global Turmoil
The "Revitalizing Turkey-EU Relations in Regional and Global Turmoil" panel, organized in partnership with Blickwechsel Turkey, took place at Humboldt University in Berlin on January 11, 2018. At the meeting, Director Fuat Keyman, 2017/18 Mercator-IPC Senior Researcher Atila Eralp, Senior Expert and Research and Academic Relations Coordinator Senem Aydın-Düzgit, ECFR Berlin Office Director and Senior Policy Researcher Josef Janning, speaker and Humboldt University faculty member Ertuğ Tombuş attended the meeting as session chairmen.
