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Dilan Okcuoglu

 

Dilan Okcuoglu is a Barzani postdoctoral fellow in Global Kurdish Studies at the American University’s School of International Service in Washington DC. Prior to that, she was a visiting scholar at the Cornell University, M. Einaudi Center for International Studies. She also has been affiliated with the Center for Democracy and Diversity at Queen’s University and the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Democracy and Diversity at the Université du Québec à Montréal since 2018-2019. She received her PhD and MA in Political Studies from Queen’s University in Canada. She has another MA degree from Europe (Central European University) and finished her undergrad in economics (Bogazici University). In addition to academic life, she has keen interest in diplomacy and policymaking. Dr. Okcuoglu has an interdisciplinary background in politics, economics, and philosophy. Her teaching and research interests primarily lie in the politics of MENA, conflict and peace studies, comparative territorial and border politics, democratization, global justice, ethnic politics, and nationalism, as well as state-minority relations in conflict zones. Okcuoglu has already published book chapters (Oxford University Press and Palgrave Macmillan) and op-eds (in the Conversation; Peace Insight; Jerusalem Post; Daily News; National Post). She is currently working on her article manuscripts and a book proposal in DC.

 

ARTICLES BY Dilan Okcuoglu

  • Scholars in Context: Dilan Okcuoglu

    Scholars in Context: Dilan Okcuoglu

    My research, broadly speaking, falls into three categories. First, it often centers around state-society relations, territorial and border politics, democratization, political violence, civil wars, ethnic control, and conflict in the MENA, with a specific focus..