As Istanbul Policy Center, from the beginning of 2020, when the COVID-19 epidemic began, we organized numerous panels on the web, where the situation of the world, societies, and individuals under the epidemic conditions was evaluated. We would like to share our book titled 'Pandemic, Climate, Society' prepared from these panels: We discussed the economic and social effects of the epidemic in the world, especially in the European Union and Turkey, starting from the very first days. Most participants think that there is a lot we can learn from this experience and that we need to mobilize this experience towards a just world order to cope with future epidemics and ecological crises. We are publishing this book at a point where we leave the epidemic behind with the discovery and application of the vaccine. For us, the great success of the last two years belongs to science, doctors, health workers, and scientists around the world. We would like to thank our listeners who followed our panels and guided our work with their suggestions and all our speakers who contributed, especially Ayşe Köse Badur and Semih Sökmen, who prepared this work for publication.

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Director Fuat Keyman, Koç University Faculty Member Çağlar Keyder, Istanbul Bilgi University Lecturer Fırat Genç and Urbanization and Local Governance Cluster Coordinator Ayşe Köse Badur's book “Kentlerin Türkiyesi: İmkânlar, Sınırlar ve Çatışmalar” was published in March 2021 with İletişim Yayınları. 

Didem Bayındır's book Salgın: Tükeniş Çağında Dünyayı Yeniden Düşünmek was published on September 2020 with Tellekt. Director Fuat Keyman and Senior Scholar Evren Balta contributed to this book with an article.

Michael Kaeding, Johannes Pollak and Paul Schmidt's book Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe Views from the Capitals was published on 2020 with Palgrave Macmillan. The book featured a chapter by Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator Senem Aydın-Düzgit and METU Faculty Member Özgehan Şenyuva, titled "Turkey: A Vicious Cycle of Euroscepticism?"

The proceedings book of the conference “Production of Climate Responsive Urban Built Environments,” convened by 2018/19 Mercator-IPC Fellow Ender Peker on May 22-24, 2019 at IPC Karaköy and the Netherlands Consulate, was published.

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Director Fuat Keyman and Berrin Koyuncu-Lorasdağı's book The Tale of Eight Cities: New Localism and New Middle Classes in Turkey (Sekiz Kentin Hikâyesi: Türkiye’de Yeni Yerellik ve Yeni Orta Sınıflar) was published in June 2020 with Metis Kitap.

Urbanization and Local Governance Cluster Coordinator Ayşe Köse Badur and Director Fuat Keyman's book Kurdish Issue: Local Dynamics and Conflict Resolution (Kürt Sorunu: Yerel Dinamikler ve Çatışma Çözümü) was published in October 2019 with Ayrıntı Yayınları.

Researcher Andrew O'Donohue and Thomas Carothers' book Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization was published on September 24, 2019 with the Brookings Institution Press. The book featured a chapter by Senem Aydın-Düzgit, titled “The Islamist-Secularist Divide and Turkey's Descent into Severe Polarization.”

Alpaslan Özerdem and Matthew Whiting's book The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics was published on April 18, 2019 with Routledge. The book featured a chapter by Senior Scholar and Climate Change Cluster Coordinator Ümit Şahin, titled "The Politics of Environment and Climate Change".

Director Fuat Keyman, Nora Fisher-Onar and Susan C. Pearce's book Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City  was published in January 2018 with Rutgers University Press.