Asst. Prof. Onur Erpul 

Room No: H-217

Tel no: 210 3097

Email:  erpul{at}metu.edu.tr

Personal profiles: Google Scholar

 

Education:

BA Bilkent University, MA Bilkent University, Ph.D. Florida International University

 

Research Interests:

International Relations Theories, International Security, Foreign Policy, Grand Strategy, Global IR

 

Courses:

IR 234 – Introduction to Foreign Policy Analysis

IR 328 – International Security

IR 422 – Theories of International Relations

IR 485 – International Relations in Cinema

 

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

“Where is the Anchor? Explaining the Endurance of the American-Turkish Partnership, 1927-2024.” All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace, Vol 14, No. 1 (2025), pp. 121-47. (with Kemal Kirişci).

“Realism’s Timeless Wisdom and its Relevance for the Global South.” All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace, Vol 13, No. 1 (2024), pp. 49-67. (with Nicolas A. Beckmann).

“The False Promise of Global IR: Exposing the Paradox of Dependent Development,” International Theory: A Journal of International Politics, Law and Philosophy (2021), pp. 1-40 (with Ersel Aydınlı).

“Elite Change and the Inception, Duration, and Demise of the Turkish-Israeli Alliance,” Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2021), pp. 1-21 (with Ersel Aydınlı).

“Turkish Politics and the Role of the Opposition,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 19, No. 4 (2019), pp. 541-564 (with Orçun Selçuk and Dilara Hekimci).

 

 

Book Chapters:

 

-“Updating, Decentering, and Extending Strategic Culture” in Strategic Culture(s) in Latin America edited by Félix E. Martín, Nicolás Terradas, and Diego Zambrano [Routledge, 2023].

 

-“Conclusion” in Strategic Culture(s) in Latin America edited by Félix E. Martín, Nicolás Terradas, and Diego Zambrano [Routledge, 2023]. (with Félix E. Martín, Nicolás Terradas, and Diego Zambrano)

 

-“Digital Diplomacy and International Society in the Age of Populism,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation edited by Paul W. Hare, Juan Luis Manfredi, & Kenneth Weisbrode (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023).

 

-“Ingiliz Okulu Kuramı ve Uluslararası Toplumda Güvenlik” [English School Theory and Security in International Society] in Uluslararası Iliskiler’de Güvenlik [Security in International Relations], Edited by Basar Baysal (İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi University Press, 2022), pp. 33-42.

 

-“Devlet” [The State] in Kuramsal Perspektiften Temel Uluslararası Iliskiler Kavramları [Theoretical Perspectives on Essential International Relations Concepts], Edited by Buğra Sarı and İsmail Erkam Sula (Ankara: Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, 2021), pp. 137-175.

 

-“The Challenges to Middle Eastern International Society: A Study in Disorder,” in Conflict and Diplomacy in the Middle East, Edited by Yannis Stivachtis (Bristol: E-International Relations, 2018), pp. 32-47.

 

 

Reviews and Other Publications:

 

-“IR Theory and Russian Apologia,” Panorama, Online (10 May, 2022).

 

-Review of Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order by Hal Brands, Strategic Studies Quarterly, January 16, 2018, Montgomery, AL: Air University.

 

-Review of The Courtiers of Civilization: A Study of Diplomacy by Sasson Soffer, Insight Turkey, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2017), pp. 251-53.

 

-“The Story of a Coup that Never Was.” Independent Turkey, April 2, 2016, London: Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (Research Turkey).

 

-“Strategic Culture and Turkey.” Dis Politika-Foreign Policy, Vol. 41 (2014), pp. 51-66.

 

-“Iraq: Postwar Years and Beyond.” Dis Politika-Foreign Policy, Vol. 37, No. 3-4 (2011), pp. 40-51 (with Hasan Selçuk Turkmen).

 

-“The Arctic and the Dilemma of Climate Change.” Dis Politika-Foreign Policy, Vol. 36, No. 1 (2010), pp. 145-153.

 

 

Other:

Associate Editor, All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace