Cengiz Gunes

Cengiz Gunes has been teaching politics and international relations at the Open University as an Associate Lecturer since 2010. Between 2022 and 2024, he was a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research examines the transformation of Turkey’s foreign policy since 2002. His research interests include Turkish foreign policy and domestic politics, Poststructuralist Discourse Theory, Nationalism, and Kurdish politics. To date, as author or co-editor, he has published five books, and his analysis of Kurdish and Turkish politics has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including New Left Review, Nationalities Papers, Ethnopolitics, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.