HomeAuthorsSoli Özel Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations Expert résidentSuivre Soli Özel joined Institut Montaigne as a senior fellow in June 2018. He is professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, and a columnist for the Turkish daily Habertürk. Since 2002, Soli Özel has also contributed to Project Syndicate on different occasions, commenting on Turkish politics. He served on the board of directors of International Alert and is currently a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. He was also an advisor to the Chairman the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TÜSIAD) on foreign policy issues. He has guest lectured at Harvard, Tufts, and other US universities and has taught at UC Santa Cruz, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the University of Washington, Northwestern University, the Hebrew University, Boğaziçi University and Bilgi University (Istanbul). He also spent time as a fellow of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford and was a visiting senior scholar at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris. He was a Fisher Family Fellow of the “Future of Diplomacy Program” at the Belfer Center of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2013, he was a Keyman fellow and a visiting lecturer at Northwestern University. Soli Özel regularly contributes to the German Marshall Fund’s web site’s “ON Turkey” series. His work has been printed in different publications in Turkey and abroad, including The International Spectator, Internationale Politik and the Journal of Democracy. He also occupied the position of Editor-in-Chief at Foreign Policy Turkish edition. Soli Özel holds a Bachelor in Economics from Bennington College and a Master in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Publications: Books:The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey #occupygezi, A Moment of Elation: The Gezi Protests/Resistance and the Fading of the AKP Project ed. U. Ozkirimli, 2014Rebuilding a Partnership: Turkish-American relations for a new era; a Turkish perspective, co-authored with Şuhnaz Yılmaz, TÜSİAD Publication, 2009 Articles: February 2018. The Transatlantic Drift and the Waning of Turkey’s 'Strategic Westernness’, Heinrich Böll StiftungJune 2018. Cultural Policy and Management Yearbook, Politics of Populism: Power and Protest in the Global Age, co-authored with Evren Balta, Istanbul Bilgi University Press05/03/2023Triumph of Hope against Fear? Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 03/20/2023Will Turkey's earthquakes create shock waves on election day? Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 01/05/2023Quest for Autonomy: History, Geopolitics and Ideology in Turkish Foreign Po... Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 10/11/2022A Constitutive Moment Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 02/17/2022Towards A ‘Green’ Mediterranean? Environmental Geopolitics of Turkey, Egypt... Emel Akçalı Associate professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul 01/24/2022Revolution in Slow Motion: Politics of Resentment, Empowerment and Identity... Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 11/26/2021France and Greece in a Defense Partnership: A View From Turkey Sinan Ülgen Former diplomat and Chairman of EDAM think tank 06/17/2021Deciphering Saudi Arabia in the Biden Era F. Gregory Gause III Head of the International Affairs Department at the Bush School of Government and Public Service 05/14/2021The US-Saudi Recalibration Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 02/09/2021Biden's Fast Start Uri Dadush Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South 02/03/2021Nation-Building at Home: How Far Can Biden Go? Thomas L. Friedman Author, reporter, and columnist 02/02/2021The Road to Take Evren Balta Political Scientist 01/12/2021US Isolationism: How to Step Back Without Stepping Away? Charles Kupchan Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations 12/08/2020The Post-Truth Phase Of Turkey’s Pandemic Response Evren Balta Political Scientist 09/02/2020Trump vs. Biden: The Election of a Lifetime Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 05/04/2020The Battle Over the Numbers: Turkey’s Low Case Fatality Rate Evren Balta Political Scientist 10/09/2019Donald Trump’s Impeachment Inquiry: The Unraveling? Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 08/02/2019US Presidential Election: Only Politics Will Do Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 06/12/2019The Fall of American Primacy? Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 04/26/2019Mueller Report – The Road to Impeachment? Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 04/12/2019Turkey's Municipal Elections : A Political Game Changer? Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 04/04/2019"Trump does not believe in NATO, he has even sought to divide it" Nicholas Burns former US Permanent Representative to NATO 11/06/2018The Fateful Midterms Soli Özel Senior Fellow - International Relations 10/23/2018The Khashoggi Case, a Tipping Point for the Middle East? Michel Duclos Special Advisor and Resident Senior Fellow, Geopolitics and Diplomacy