Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of South Florida.
Joined September 2020
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May 11
đź“Ł We're hiring a postdoc to join us on education research projects at Oxford @OxfordEconDept @Oxford_CSAE. Join me @gamblingondev @roccozizzamia on multiple exciting projects! Applications due June 7th.
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Apr 29
đź’Ľ We're #hiring a Post-doctoral Research Officer in European Politics to work on the project "Emotions, Polarization, and Civilizational Narratives in European Politics and Foreign Policy: A Comparative Approach".
Apply by Sunday 24 May 2026! shorturl.at/EoCGe
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Apr 25
After drinking with friends one evening, Beyhan Mutlu, a 50-year-old from Bursa province, wandered off into a forest and didn't return home.
The next morning Mutlu came across the search group alerted by his family and decided to help them look for the "missing person".
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Apr 17
Due Soon! APSA welcomes proposals from PhD candidates working on any aspect of these topics for the 2026 Virtual Dissertation Workshops:
đź“„ Migration & Citizenship
📄 New Topics in European Politics
đź“„ Public Administration and Policy
Apply by 4/26! buff.ly/4F2QpY6
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Mar 8
Very interesting discussion by Michael Sandel and @DAcemogluMIT on democracy in the age of AI - including the important topic of the unwarranted (and often deeply embarrassing) attribution of social and even intellectual esteem and deference to financial and tech elites.
Well worth listening to.
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Pre-doc Position (3 Years) in the Project “Party Systems and Social Cleavages in the Post-Ottoman Space of the MENA Region” (CLOSER), Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.
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Postdoc Fellowships: Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism
Deadline: March 10
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5 Dec 2025
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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9 Nov 2025
UNITED STATES: 15 million more adults under 35 are now living with their parents compared to a decade ago, according to Fortune report.
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30 Oct 2025
You can read the whole newsletter here:
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Sefa Secen retweeted
17 Oct 2025
The best opportunities in life never look like opportunities.
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If they did, everyone would take them and they would stop being opportunities.
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Sefa Secen retweeted
9 Oct 2025
Overthinking is the art of creating problems that don’t exist.
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23 Jul 2025
I wrote a short article, “Competitive Multilateralism and the Future of Global Governance,” for E-International Relations. In this piece, I explore how liberal internationalism is giving way to a more fragmented and competitive form of multilateralism. e-ir.info/2025/07/23/competi…
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17 Jul 2025
The thing about fragility is-with every crack, the structure becomes more irreparable.
22 Jun 2025
I’ve just arrived back from Syria, I’ve intended to post reflections after some rest. One of which would have been: the country feels fragile—a lot is going super well, but cracks are latent. Minorities expressed to me their hopes but also fears 1/2
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16 Jul 2025
I wrote a short piece for @EurasiaReview, Russia’s Forgotten Minority: The Ahiska Turks And The Geopolitics Of Ethnic Marginalization.
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30 Jun 2025
Happy to share this reading list which includes over 350 articles, books, and policy reports related to Syrian politics and the civil war in Syria. I’ll keep updating this initial list with new research, topics, and Arabic sources markberlin2.com/civil-war-in…
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Sefa Secen retweeted
12 Jun 2025
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”
― Paulo Coelho
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Sefa Secen retweeted
10 Jun 2025
"Biraz zaman geçsin her şeyi unutursun. Biraz zaman geçsin, her şey seni unutur."
—Marcus Aurelius
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Sefa Secen retweeted
2 Jun 2025
cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🚨 Super excited to see my paper, "Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies", finally out in the American Political Science Review @apsrjournal
Quick thread below🧵
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