Published at a time when the development and rollout of vaccines offered the prospect of moving beyond the pandemic, the book brings together contributions from experts who participated in IPC’s panels. Editors: Ayşe Köse Badur and Semih Sökmen. Contributors: E. Fuat Keyman, Selim Badur, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Evren Balta, Ümit Şahin, Kâmil Yılmaz, Işıl Arıcan, Yağız Üresin, Pelin Oğuz, Cem Güneri, Çiğdem Nas, Nebi Sümer, Emre Erdoğan, S. Adil Sarıbay, Erdoğan Özmen, Sinan Alper, Ayşenur Dal, Onurcan Yılmaz, Fikret Adaman, Zafer Yenal, Sinan Erensü, Hande Paker, Gökşen Şahin, Akgün İlhan, Murat Türkeş, Tuğba Öztürk, Galip Dalay, Çağlar Keyder, Atila Eralp, Nilgün Arısan-Eralp, Feyzi Baban, Pınar Uyan Semerci, Işık Özel, Mustafa Kutlay, Alper Kaliber, Yusuf Leblebici, Galip Yalman, Gökçe Uysal, İnsan Tunalı, Ateş Altınordu, Umut Azak, Ayşe Çavdar.
Fuat Keyman
Fuat 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.
Senem Aydın Düzgit
Senem Aydın-Düzgit is the Director of Istanbul Policy Center and a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University.
senem.aydinduzgit@sabanciuniv.edu
Ümit Şahin
Ümit Şahin is Senior Scholar and the Head of Climate Change Program at Istanbul Policy Center.
umit.sahin@sabanciuniv.edu
Pelin Oğuz
Pelin Oğuz is Mercator-IPC Fellowship Program Coordinator. She received her PhD in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2016. Her dissertation is titled as: “The politics of nature and neoliberalism: An assessment of the impact of Hydroelectric Power plants on Local Populations”. She has publications focusing on politics of nature.
pelin.oguz@sabanciuniv.edu
Zafer Yenal
Before joining Sabancı University and IPC in September 2024, Zafer Yenal served as a professor of sociology at Boğaziçi University since 2000.
zafer.yenal@sabanciuniv.edu
Fikret Adaman
Fikret Adaman is a 2021/22 Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow and a professor of economics at Boğaziçi University. Adaman completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics at Boğaziçi University and his PhD at Manchester University.
adaman@boun.edu.tr
Nebi Sümer
Prof. Dr. Nebi Sümer holds a BA in Psychology from METU, an MA in Developmental Psychology from Hacettepe University and a PhD in Social Psychology from Kansas State University, USA.
nebi.sumer@sabanciuniv.edu
Akgün İlhan
Akgün İlhan is an academic and researcher who has worked on water management, environmental policy and climate change since 2006.
akgun.ilhan@sabanciuniv.edu
Sinan Erensü
Sinan Erensü is a political ecologist who received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2016 and an MPhil from Cambridge University in 2006, both in sociology.
sinan.erensu@sabanciuniv.edu
Mustafa Kutlay
Mustafa Kutlay is a Senior Scholar at Istanbul Policy Center and associate professor (senior lecturer) at City University of London, Department of International Politics.
mustafa.kutlay@sabanciuniv.edu
Atila Eralp
Atila Eralp is a member of the International Advisory Council of Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initative. He was a Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow at IPC from 2019 to 2023.
atila.eralp@sabanciuniv.edu
Çağlar Keyder
Çağlar Keyder is a professor of sociology at the State University of New York in Binghamton and at Koç University in Istanbul. He completed his PHD at Berkeley University, California.
Gökçe Uysal
Gökçe Uysal is an economist who works on labor markets, education, and private savings, with a special focus on Turkey. Her work on the labor market has focused on disadvantaged groups, such as women, youth, and refugees
gokce.uysal@sabanciuniv.edu
Alper Kaliber
Alper Kaliber joined the Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) as a Senior Scholar in April 2025. Before joining the IPC, he worked as a visiting scholar at the Federal University of ABC in São Paulo, Brazil.
alper.kaliber@sabanciuniv.edu
Hande Paker
Hande Paker is a political sociologist based at the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences at Bahcesehir University.
hpaker@gmail.com