📣 CFP | Populist World Order Narratives, Hamburg, 24 to 25 Sept 2026.
I am organizing a workshop on #populism and #WorldOrder narratives as part of our WONAGO project. Submit your abstract by 31 May 2026. Travel and accommodation funding available.
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Populism and Foreign Policy Abstract. How and why does the formation of populist governments lead to changes in foreign policy? This book theorizes and empirically analyses how populi

Very happy to share that my new book "Populism and Foreign Policy", co-authored with Johannes Plagemann, is now out as an e-book with Oxford University Press! We examine how populist governments reshape #foreignpolicy across the globe. More here: academic.oup.com/book/61646

We had an excellent lecture by @hakkitas.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de yesterday in our #MSCA Doctoral Network IDEoPOP @ideopop.bsky.social. Thanks a lot, dear Hakki, for presenting your super inspiring and innovative research agenda on #populism and #territoriality!
@pwunifreiburg.bsky.social

Dear Sandra, thank you so much for the invitation and the wonderfully engaged audience! Glad to be part of it.

Visual "A video of Sedat Peker, a convicted Turkish mob boss whose online videos viewed over 100 million times - in which he has made uncorroborated allegations about top Turkish officials close to President Tayyip Erdogan, is played on an ipad of a customer at a cafe in Istanbul, Turkey June 14, 2021." Text: "GIGA Focus: Die narco-autoritäre Wende der Türkei: Ein Spielplatz der Mafia"

Einst als „türkisches Modell“ von Islam und Demokratie gefeiert, ist die #Türkei zu einem globalen Kokain-Drehkreuz geworden. Im neuesten #GIGAFocus analysiert @hakkitas.bsky.social wie die Türkei zum Spielplatz für die #Mafia wird.

➡️ Jetzt lesen: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publikati...

Nuray Mert yazdı: Veda ediyorum - Medyascope "Ülkeme ilişkin siyasi yorum yazısı yazmaya, görüş bildirmeye son verme kararı aldım."

Aynı yerden bakmasak da Nuray Mert bu ülkenin en özgün ve cesur aydınlarından biridir. Onun "veda ediyorum" deyişi daha yürek burkucu.
medyascope.tv/2025/04/09/n...

An almost surreal video from Istanbul - watch until the very end.

Police harshly attack protestors with plastic bullets and pepper gas.

Suddenly, Ankaranin Baglari starts playing in the background. And then two attacked protestors start dancing oyun havası.

Resisting with style!

By dismantling institutions deemed as obstacles to the popular will, populism leaves its opponents no recourse but direct confrontation, and if the streets fill with protest, that is the populist power’s own doing. This is what is happening now in Turkey. #saraçhane #imamoğlu

Protestoların en önemli başarısı, "Silivri soğuktur" eşiğinin geçilmesi. Düne kadar insanlar sokak röportajında ağzını açmaya korkuyordu, bugün yüzbinler "Tayyip istifa" diye bağırıyor.

Türkische TV-Serien: Zwischen Geschäft und Propaganda – DW – 22.01.2025 Türkische Serien wurden 2023 in 170 Länder exportiert und erzielten dabei einen Umsatz von 600 Millionen US-Dollar. Sie sind nicht nur ein Exportschlager, sondern auch ein Spiegel der Entwicklungen im...

"Türkische TV-Serien: Zwischen Geschäft und Propaganda" mit meinen Kommentaren📺
p.dw.com/p/4pPw6

📣 Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity for scholars from Palestine and Lebanon at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG):

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