Işık Kuşçu

Education: 

BA, Hacettepe University, MA, METU, MA/PhD Indiana University

Research Interests: 

Former Soviet Republics, Central Asia, Nation and State Building, Democratization, Migration, Diaspora, Nationalism, Peace and Conflict Studies

Courses / Laboratories:

3140206 Introduction to International Relations

3140223 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies

3140326 International Organization

3140354 Politics of Diaspora

8350502 Politics of State Building in Eurasia

8350509 Introduction to Post-Soviet Politics

3140681 State Building and Nation Building in the Post-Soviet Space

Publications:

Books and Chapters in Books:

Stateless Diasporas and China’s Uyghur crisis in the 21st Century in Nükhet Sandal (ed.) The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.751.

Governing the Kazakh Diaspora: Kazakhstan’s Evolving Policies and Institutions for Kazakhs Abroad, in Ajaya K.Sahoo (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism. London, New York: Routledge, 2022, pp.307-317. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003152149

Kazakistan'ın Göç Politikaları, in Hasan Acar (ed.) Türkiye-Kazakistan İlişkileri (Ankara: Nobel Yayınları, 2021), 89-103.

Türk Cumhuriyetleri ve Amerikan Dış Politikası, in Fırat Yaldız (ed.) 30.Yılında Türk Cumhuriyetleri: Küresel Politika (3.Cilt) (Ankara: Nobel Yayınları, 2021), 151-169.

Kazakistan’da Ulus ve Devlet İnşasını Güçlendirici Bir Dinamik olarak Tarih Yazımı ve Tarih Bilincini Güçlendirme Çabaları, in Cengiz Buyar (ed.) Kazakistan: Tarih, Toplum, Ekonomi, Siyaset (Bişkek: BYR Yayınları, 2021), 85-103.

Constructing the Uyghur Diaspora: Identity Politics and the Transnational Uyghur Community, in Konuralp Ercilasun (ed.) The Uyghur Community: Diaspora, Identity and Geopolitics, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 85-103.

Kırım'ın Rusya'ya Katılımının Bölgesel ve Küresel Düzeyde Etkileri, in Hasret Çomak, vd. (eds) Uluslararası Politikada Ukrayna Krizi, (İstanbul: Beta Yayınları: 2014), 309-334.

Kazakistan'da Ulus İnşası Sürecinde Ethnik Geri Dönüş Göçü Siyaseti ve Etkileri in Turgut Demirtepe (ed.) Orta Asya'da Siyaset ve Toplum: Demokrasi, Etnisite ve Kimlik (Ankara: Usak Publications, 2012), 175-207.

Articles:

Long-Distance Nationalism and Peace Settlement Preferences, Işık Kuşçu Bonnenfant, Edward Morgan-Jones, Charis Psaltis, Raluca Popp, Laura Sudulich, Neophytos Loizides, International Studies Quarterly.Vol.70, https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqag008  

Turkey’s Official and Public Response to the Uyghur Issue” in Rebecca Clothey and Dilmurat Mahmut (eds.) Uyghur Identity and Culture: a Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis, London, New York: Routledge, 2024, pp.164-181. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003305576

Turkish Foreign Policy Towards Central Asia: An Unfolding of Regionalism and Soft Power, All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 12 (2), 2023: 1-24 with Hayriye Kahveci. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/allazimuth/article/1310530 

Türkiye ve Dünyada Uygur Diasporası, Türkiye Günlüğü, 143 (Yaz 2020).

Internally Displaced Persons and the Cyprus Peace Process, International Political Science Review, 41 (1), 2020, 138-154 with Charis Psaltis, Hüseyin Çakal and Neophythos Loizides.

"Changing Perception of Homeland for the Kazakh Diaspora" Nationalities Papers, Vol: 44 (3), 2016, 380-396.

"Bağımsız Kazakistan'da Eğitim ve Sağlık: Sorunlar, Reform Süreci ve Uluslararası Aktörlerin Rolü" Orta Asya ve Kafkasya Araştırmaları (OAKA) Dergisi, Vol.9 (18), December 2014, 23-46.

"Normative Power Europe in Central Asia: The Case of Kazakhstan" Yearbook of Politics and International Relations, Vol.6, 2014, 127-154.

"The Uyghur Diaspora in Cyberspace: Identity and the Homeland Cause" Bilig: Türk Dünyası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Issue: 69 (Spring 2014), 143-160.

"The Public Debate Surrounding the Ethnic Return Migration Policy in Kazakhstan" International Migration, Vol.52 (2), April 2014, 178-197.

"The Origins of Uyghur Long Distance Nationalism: The First Generation Uyghur Diaspora in Turkey" Orta Asya ve Kafkasya Araştırmaları (OAKA) Dergisi, Vol.8 (16), 2013, 73-94.

"The Egyptian American Diaspora during and in the Aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011" Ortadoğu Etüdleri, Vol.4, No.1, July 2012, 121-142.

"Constructing the Homeland: Kazakhstan's Discourse and Policies surrounding its Ethnic Return Migration Policy" Central Asian Survey, Vol.31, No: 1, March 2012, 31-44.

"Eurasian Studies in Turkey" with Ayşe Güneş- Ayata and Hayriye Kahveci Central Eurasian Studies Review, Vol. 3(2) (Spring 2004), 2-10.

Review Articles and Book Reviews:

Review of the Book by Anthony Gorman and Sossie Kasbarian (eds.) Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualizing Community (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015). International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.48 (2016), 592-594.

Review of the Book by Thomas W. Simons, Jr. Eurasia's New Frontiers: Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures" Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.62, No: 3, May 2010, 539-541.

Review on 2nd METU Conference on International Relations, Central Eurasian Studies Review, Volume 2, Number 3 (Spring 2003) with Hayriye Kahveci, 28-30.