Başak Zeynep Alpan

E-mail

balpan@metu.edu.tr

Department

Department of Political Science and Public Administration

ORCID

0000-0003-1955-4700

Scopus Author ID

56025550300

Web of Science Researcher ID

ABA-3916-2020

Anxieties of a Self-Claimed Middle Power: Ruptures and Continuities in Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium and the Puzzle of Ontological (in) Security Alpan, Başak Zeynep; Ozturk, Ahmet Erdi (2025-01-01) This article examines the transformation of Turkey’s foreign policy under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) through the lens of ontological security. While Turkey has historically been engaged with the European ideal...
What accounts for the EU’s actorness within its “geopolitical awakening”?: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and effectiveness and cohesion of the European Union Alpan, Başak Zeynep; Tür Küçükkaya, Özlem (2024-12-01) Since mid-2010s, two concomitant processes have been going on in terms of the EU’s perspective on its foreign policy: The EU’s relatively proactive inclusion into some particular conflicts (and its deliberate self-exclusio...
What Accounts for the EU’s Actorness Within its “Geopolitical Awakening”?: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Effectiveness and Cohesion of the European Union Alpan, Başak Zeynep; Tür Küçükkaya, Özlem (2024-12) Since mid-2010s, two concomitant processes have been going on in terms of the EU’s perspective on its foreign policy: The EU’s relatively proactive inclusion into some particular conflicts (and its deliberate self-exclusio...
Perceiving 'Europe' in Dire Times Elite Perceptions of European Integration in Turkish Politics after the 2010s Alpan, Başak Zeynep; ÖZÇELİK, ALİ ONUR (2024-01-01) This chapter explores the transformative dynamics in Turkiye-EU relations post-2010, particularly within the context of Turkish political elites' perceptions. The chapter underscores the profound impact of the strained Tur...
A gaze at narratives: What future for the EU’s neighbourhood policy? Alpan, Başak Zeynep (ODTÜ İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, 2023-12) The significance of geopolitics and the heightened significance of realpolitik which led to a renewed focus on a rather security-based perspective in European politics, particularly in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine, ...
Perceiving ‘Europe’ in Dire Times: Elite Perceptions of the European Integration in Turkish Politics after 2010s Alpan, Başak Zeynep; Özçelik, Ali Onur (2023-09-06)
Introduction: Teaching and Learning ‘Europe’ in ‘the Periphery’: Disciplinary, Educational and Cognitive Boundaries of European Studies Alpan, Başak Zeynep; Diez, Thomas (2022-12-01) This introductory article argues that there is a need to introduce a renewed approach to the field of European Studies which takes into account various perspectives from the ‘periphery’ to unfold complexities and challenge...
Readmission or Desecuritization? The Recent Migration Crisis and Bordering Narratives and Practices in Turkey Alpan, Başak Zeynep (Democracy Institute, 2022-01-01)
Turkey and the Balkans: bringing the Europeanisation/ De-Europeanisation nexus into question Alpan, Başak Zeynep; Ozturk, Ahmet Erdi (2022-01-01) This article is about the main framework and the rationale of the special issue, which deals with Turkey's increasing ethno-religious, pragmatic and complicated involvement and activism in the Balkans since 2002, under the...
Turkish foreign policy in the Balkans amidst 'soft power' and 'de-Europeanisation' Alpan, Başak Zeynep; Ozturk, Ahmet Erdi (2022-01-01) Since the beginning of the 2000s, extensive academic research has echoed one popular opinion, 'Turkey is back to the Balkans'. These studies have been scrutinizing the complicated role of Turkey in the Balkans, usually dra...

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