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3908
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National Ranking
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Overview

Paul Kubicek is affiliated with Oakland University in the United States, focusing primarily on Social Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies, Archeology, and General Energy.

The researcher's work often centers on topics related to Turkey's politics and society, political conflict and governance, and international relations. Other recurring themes include Middle East and Rwanda conflicts, post-Soviet geopolitical dynamics, security, politics, digital transformation, and the history, politics, and society of the Balkans.

Paul Kubicek's recent publications include:

  • Strictly Pragmatism?: Prospects for a Russian-Turkish Partnership (2020), Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies
  • Contrasting theoretical approaches to Turkish foreign policy (2022), Turkish Studies
  • Structural dynamics, pragmatism, and shared grievances: explaining Russian-Turkish relations (2022), Turkish Studies
  • Faulty Assumptions about Democratization in Turkey (2020), Middle East Critique
  • Turkey-West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition (2020), Turkish Studies

These papers have collectively been cited multiple times, reflecting ongoing engagement with their research themes.

Paul Kubicek frequently publishes in the following academic venues:

  • Turkish Studies
  • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies
  • Middle East Critique
  • The Journal of the Middle East and Africa
  • Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

The researcher collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Alpaslan Özerdem
  • Ahmet Erdi Öztürk
  • Ayşe Kadıoğlu
  • Gareth Jenkins
  • Stephen Karam

Paul Kubicek's work integrates diverse perspectives within the study of political science and international relations, with particular attention to Turkey and its geopolitical environment.

Best Publications

  • The European Union & Democratization: Reluctant States

    Paul J. Kubicek

  • Regional Polarisation in Ukraine: Public Opinion, Voting and Legislative Behaviour

    Paul Kubicek

  • The European Union and Grassroots Democratization in Turkey

    Paul Kubicek

  • Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics

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  • Delegative democracy in Russia and Ukraine

    Paul Kubiček

  • The Commonwealth of Independent States: an example of failed regionalism?

    Paul Kubicek

  • Organized Labor In Postcommunist States: From Solidarity To Infirmity

    Paul J. Kubicek

  • Regionalism, Nationalism and Realpolitik in Central Asia

    Paul Kubicek

  • Authoritarianism in Central Asia: Curse or cure?

    Paul Kubicek

  • Political conditionality and European Union's cultivation of democracy in Turkey

    Paul Kubicek

  • Organized Labor in Postcommunist States: Will the Western Sun Set on It, Too?

    Paul Kubicek

  • Unbroken Ties: The State, Interest Associations, and Corporatism in Post-Soviet Ukraine

    Paul Kubicek

  • Energy politics and geopolitical competition in the Caspian Basin

    Paul Kubicek

  • Civil Society, Trade Unions and Post-Soviet Democratisation: Evidence from Russia and Ukraine

    Paul Kubicek

  • International norms, the European Union, and democratization: tentative theory and evidence

    Paul J. Kubicek

  • Russian Foreign Policy and the West

    Paul Kubicek

  • The Earthquake, Civil Society, and Political Change in Turkey: Assessment and Comparison with Eastern Europe

    Paul Kubicek

  • The European Union and democratization in Ukraine

    Paul Kubicek

  • Problems of post-post-communism: Ukraine after the Orange Revolution

    Paul Kubicek

  • Media in new Turkey: the origins of an authoritarian neoliberal state

    Paul Kubicek

  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Paul Kubicek

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