Education:
B.S. METU; M.S. METU; Ph.D. METU
Post-Doctoral Research:
Leiden University, Institute for Area Studies (funded by TÜBİTAK 2219 International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program for Turkish Citizens)
Research Interests:
Non-Western International Relations; Identity Politics; Islamism; Nationalism; Intellectual History; Middle Eastern Politics
Publications (Peer-Reviewed):
Tunahan Yıldız, “Debating the Caliphate in the Republican Period: Turkish Islamists and the Question of Islamic Leadership,” European Journal of Turkish Studies, forthcoming.
Tunahan Yıldız and Esra Çengel, “The Repertoires of Religious Nationalism: The Case of İsmet Özel,” Nationalities Papers 52, no. 2 (2024): 380-396.
Tunahan Yıldız, “International Politics in Turkish Islamism during the Cold War, 1947-1964,” Middle Eastern Studies 59, no. 3 (2023): 437-455.
Tunahan Yıldız and Didem Kizir, “Ethnic and Religious Nationalism in Turkey: The Cases of Atsız and Arvasi,” Turkish Studies 24, no. 1 (2023): 75-98.
Tunahan Yıldız and Zana Çitak, “The International in Turkish Islamist Thought,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies 51, no. 1 (2022): 129-156.
Tunahan Yıldız and Zana Çitak, “The Multiple Identities of the Middle East: A Case of Iraqi Turkmen Refugees in Turkey,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 23, no. 2 (2021): 339-357.
Tunahan Yıldız, “Iraklılık Kimliği: Irak’ta Kimliğin Alternatif Tarihi [Iraqi Identity: An Alternative History of Identity in Iraq],” Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi 6, no. 1 (2019): 169-202.
Tunahan Yıldız, “Modern Irak’ta Kürt-Türkmen İlişkileri [Kurdish-Turkmen Relations in Modern Iraq],” Avrasya Etüdleri 54, no. 2 (2018): 95-120.
Tunahan Yıldız, “Mezhep Çatışmasına Bir Etnik Grup ve Yerel Bağlam Üzerinden Bakmak: Irak Türkmenleri ve Telafer Örneği [Looking at Sectarian Conflict through an Ethnic Group and a Local Context: The Case of Iraqi Turkmens and Tal Afar],” Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi 4, no. 2 (2017): 41-74.
Book Chapters:
Alp Yenen, Tunahan Yıldız, and Ömer Faruk Topal, “Muslim Internationalism: The Pursuit of Religious-National Solidarity from the Ottoman Empire to the Present,” in Bloomsbury Handbook on Histories of Internationalism, eds. Jessica Reinisch, Su Lin Lewis, and David Brydan (Bloomsbury: Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming).
Tunahan Yıldız, “İslamcı İdeolojide Milli Güvenlik: Uluslararası Boyut Üzerinden Bir İnceleme [National Security in Islamist Ideology: An Explanation through the International],” in Devletin Güvenliği Adına: Türkiye'de Milli Güvenlik Siyaseti [In the Name of the State’s Security: The Politics of National Security in Turkey], eds. Özlem Kaygusuz and Behlül Özkan (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2023), 205-237.
Tunahan Yıldız, “Soğuk Savaş Döneminde Türkiye-İsrail İlişkileri [The Turkish-Israeli Relations during the Cold War],” in İsrail: Bir Ülkenin Akademik Anatomisi [Israel: The Academic Anatomy of a Country], eds. Orhan Karaoğlu and Nail Elhan (İstanbul: İnkılâp Kitabevi, 2023), 172-187.
Tunahan Yıldız, “Irak: Zafiyet ile Telafi Arasında Siyaset [Iraq: Politics between Vulnerability and Compensation],” in Ortadoğu ve Dış Politika: Arap Ülkeleri ve İsrail [The Middle East and Foreign Policy: Arab Countries and Israel], ed. Meliha Benli Altunışık (İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2022), 33-60.
Book Reviews:
Tunahan Yıldız, Book Review, “Barry Buzan and Amitav Acharya, Re-imagining International Relations: World Orders in the Thought and Practice of Indian, Chinese, and Islamic Civilizations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021,” OASIS, no. 39 (2024): 219-224.
Tunahan Yıldız, Book Review, “Lisel Hintz, Identity Politics Inside Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018,” Uluslararası İlişkiler 20, no. 78 (2023): 139-142.
Tunahan Yıldız, Book Review, “Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan, The Making of Global International Relations: Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019,” Uluslararası İlişkiler 19, no. 74 (2022): 101-103.
Tunahan Yıldız, Book Review, “İsmail Kara, İslâmcıların Siyasî Görüşleri II: Hürriyet, Müsavat, Uhuvvet, İstanbul, Dergâh Yayınları, 2019,” İnsan ve Toplum 12, no. 2 (2022): 276-280.
Translation:
William Mulligan, Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nın Kökenleri [The Origins of the First World War], trans. Tunahan Yıldız (İstanbul: Babil Kitap, 2020) [originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2010].
Awards:
Ph.D. Thesis Award, METU, Graduate School of Social Sciences, 2025
Other:
Board Member, Turkish Political Science Association (2024-present)