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Pinar Bilgin

Pinar Bilgin

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Political Science

D-Index
24
Citations
3951
World Ranking
1664
National Ranking
4

Overview

Pinar Bilgin is affiliated with Bilkent University in Turkey and has contributed extensively to the field of Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Gender Studies, History, and Development. Their academic work encompasses various aspects of international relations and geopolitical analysis.

Their recent publications include:

  • How not to Globalise IR: 'Centre' and 'Periphery' as Constitutive of 'the International' (2021), published in Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi
  • The 'Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean' as a Threat to Women's Security in the EU? A Contrapuntal Reading (2020), published in Geopolitics
  • Against Eurocentric narratives on militarism (2023), published in Critical Military Studies
  • A case for re-thinking geo-cultural pluralism in International Relations (2021), published in International Politics Reviews
  • IPR forum on Chih-yu Shih's intervention on the relational turn in IR (2024), published in International Politics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bilgin include:

  • Beatrix Futák-Campbell
  • Mônica Herz

Their research has appeared in a variety of publication venues, including:

  • Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi
  • Critical Military Studies
  • Geopolitics
  • International Politics Reviews
  • International Politics

Main research topics addressed by Bilgin are:

  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Turkey's Politics and Society
  • Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
  • Middle East Politics and Society

Pinar Bilgin's work reflects a multidisciplinary approach within social sciences, focusing on power dynamics, security issues, and geopolitical narratives, particularly in the contexts of the Mediterranean, Europe, and the Middle East. The body of work includes critical examinations of Eurocentrism, geo-cultural pluralism in international relations, and women's security in migration contexts.

Best Publications

  • Thinking past ‘Western’ IR?

    Pinar Bilgin

  • Historicising representations of 'failed states': beyond the cold-war annexation of the social sciences?

    Pinar Bilgin;Adam David Morton

  • Individual and Societal Dimensions of Security

    Pinar Bilgin

  • Turkey's changing security discourses: The challenge of globalisation

    Pinar Bilgin

  • “Only Strong States Can Survive in Turkey's Geography”: The uses of “geopolitical truths” in Turkey

    Pinar Bilgin

  • Whose ‘Middle East’? Geopolitical Inventions and Practices of Security

    Pinar Bilgin

  • Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective

    Pinar Bilgin

  • The ‘Western-Centrism’ of Security Studies: ‘Blind Spot’ or Constitutive Practice?:

    Pinar Bilgin

  • From ‘Rogue’ to ‘Failed’ States? The Fallacy of Short-termism†

    Pinar Bilgin;Adam David Morton

  • Turkey's "New" Foreign Policy toward Eurasia

    Pinar Bilgin;Ali Bilgiç

  • The Return of Geopolitics in Europe?

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  • A Return to ‘Civilisational Geopolitics’ in the Mediterranean? Changing Geopolitical Images of the European Union and Turkey in the Post-Cold War Era

    Pinar Bilgin

  • The politics of studying securitization? The Copenhagen School in Turkey

    Pinar Bilgin

  • The International in Security, Security in the International

    Pinar Bilgin

  • Hard Power, Soft Power: Toward a More Realistic Power Analysis

    Pinar Bilgin;Berivan Elis

  • Securing Turkey through western-oriented foreign policy

    Pınar Bilgin

  • Constructing Turkey's "Western" Identity during the Cold War: Discourses of the Intellectuals of Statecraft

    Eylem Yilmaz;Pinar Bilgin

  • The Securityness of Secularism? The Case of Turkey

    Pinar Bilgin

  • Making Turkey’s Transformation Possible: Claiming ‘Security‐ speak’—not Desecuritization!

    Pınar Bilgin

  • “Contrapuntal Reading” as a Method, an Ethos, and a Metaphor for Global IR

    Pinar Bilgin

  • Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology

    Xavier Guillaume;Pinar Bilgin

  • The 'Peculiarity' of Turkey's Position on EU-NATO Military/Security Cooperation: A Rejoinder to Missiroli:

    Pinar Bilgin

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam David Morton
Adam David Morton University of Sydney
Barry Buzan
Barry Buzan London School of Economics and Political Science

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