Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BURCU SARI KARADEMİR

Dr. Burcu Sarı Karademir received her PhD degree with Distinction in Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara in 2012. Upon completion of her dissertation entitled “A Constructivist Analysis on Balancing: The Impact U.S. War on Terror on China and Russia,” Dr. Sarı pursued her post-doctoral studies on the impact of status-seeking on states’ balancing tendencies in Arnold Saltzman War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, New York, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Robert Jervis between 2013-2014. Her research project on status-seeking and balancing was granted TUBITAK post-doctoral research scholarship in 2013. Among her publications are:“Building Back Better with Gender in Mind: Centering Turkey’s Women and Girls in Earthquake Recovery”, (Middle East Institute, 2023); “Kadın-Yurttaş için ‘Mor Sözleşme’: Mor Küçülme”,  (Reflektif Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2023); “Afet SarmalındaKadınlar: Bakım Emeği Yükü ve Afet Yönetimi İçin Mor Küçülme (Purple Degrowth)”, (İktisat ve Toplum Dergisi,2023), “A Conceptual History: Historical Sociological Analysis of Unipolarity in Structural Realist Literature”, (Uluslararası İlişkiler, 2023); “Mor Küçülme: Mor Ekonomi ve Küçülme Perspektifiyle Bakım Krizi”, (İktisat ve Toplum Dergisi, 2022),  “A Dance of Entanglement: The US-Turkish Relations in the Context of the Syrian Conflict”, (Uluslararası İlişkiler, 2019); “Turkey as a ‘Willing Receiver’ of American Soft Power: Hollywood Movies in Turkey during the Cold War”, (Turkish Studies, 2013); and “China’s Security Understanding: from the ‘New Security Concept’ to 2010”, (China and International Security: History, Strategy, and 21st Century Policy, Praeger, 2014). Her research agenda covers traditional security and foreign policy issues such as Turkey’s strategic autonomy, great power politics under unipolarity as well as issues of critical security studies including human security, purple degrowth, disaster risk management, gender and democracy. Dr. Sarı worked in Department of International Relations at Bilkent University and Department of International Relations and Political Science at TED University, Ankara, Turkey.  Burcu Sarı and Selver Şahin received the 2023 Şirin Tekeli Research Incentive Support award with their project entitled “Emancipating Women and Girls from Vulnerabilities Through A Social Reconstruction-Oriented Approach to Disaster Management”. She is the co-founder of the SDG5 Network and an associate editor of Uluslararası İlişkiler Journal.