Ersel Aydınlı is a professor of International Relations at Bilkent University and the Director-General of the Fulbright Commission of Turkey. He taught at McGill University, Middle East Technical University and George Washington University. His research has focused on IR theory, globalisation and security, terrorism and Turkish domestic and foreign policy.

Selected Publications:
(with Julie Mathews). “Searching for Larger Status in Global Politics: Internationalization of Higher Education in Turkey”, Journal of Studies in International Education, vo. 25, no. 3, 2021, pp. 247 – 265.
(with Onur Erpul). “Elite Change and the Inception, Duration, and Demise of the Turkish-Israeli Alliance”, Foreign Policy Analysis, vol. 17, no. 2, 2021.
(with Onur Erpul). “The False Promise of Global IR: Exposing the Paradox of Dependent Development”, International Theory, 2021, doi:10.1017/S175297192100018X.
“Methodology as a Lingua Franca in International Relations: Peripheral Self-Reflections on Dialogue with the Core”, Chinese Journal of International Politics, vol. 13, no. 2, 2020, pp. 287-312.
“Assessing Violent Nonstate Actorness in Global Politics: A Framework for Analysis”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 28, no. 3, 2015, pp. 424-444.
“The Reform-Security Dilemma in Democratic Transitions: The Turkish Experience as Model?”, Democratization, vol. 20, no. 6, 2013, pp. 1144-1164.
“Civil-Military Relations Transformed”, Journal of Democracy, vol. 23, no. 1, 2012, pp. 100 -108.
“Governments vs States: Decoding Dual Governance in the Developing World”, Third World Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 5, 2010, pp. 693-707.
(with Nihat Ali Özcan and Doğan Akyaz). “The Turkish military's march toward Europe”, Foreign Affairs, vol. 85, no. 1, 2006, pp. 77-90.
(with James Rosenau). Globalization, Security, and the Nation State: Paradigms in Transition. State University of New York Press, 2005.