
Professor
LERNA KOHARİK YANIK
Education
Doctorate
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Siyaset Bilimi
Master's Degree
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Siyaset Bilimi
Bachelor's Degree
BOĞAZİÇİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler
Research Areas
- Siyasal Coğrafya
- Batı-Dışı Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramı
- Türk Dış Politikası
- Medya, Kültür ve Siyaset
- Eleştirel Jeopolitik
Work Experience
2016 /
Continuing
Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, Profesör
Kadir Has Üniversitesi
2011 /
2016
Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, Doçent
Kadir Has Üniversitesi
2003 /
2011
Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, Yardımcı Doçent
Bilkent Üniversitesi
2009 /
2010
Misafir Öğretim Üyesi/Fulbright
The Graduate Center/City University of New York
2017 /
2018
Misafir Öğretim Üyesi
Cambridge Üniversitesi
Publications
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"The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols",
Hisarlıoğlu, Fulya; Yanık, Lerna K.; , Cooperation and Conflict, (2024) DOI: 10.1177/00108367241269620 -
"Populist hyperpersonalization and politicization of foreign policy institutions",
Özdamar, Özgür; Yanik, Lerna K.; , International Affairs, (2024) Vol.100, No.5, 1835-1856 DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiae181 -
"Identity, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece Through Ayasofya",
Hisarlıoğlu, Fulya; Karagiannopoulou, Chara; Yanık, Lerna K.; , Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, (2024) DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2318675 -
"Turkey and the Russian invasion of Ukraine: an interplay of bloc (de)formation, recognition and asymmetric interdependencies?",
Yanık, Lerna K.; , Globalizations, (2023) DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2023.2232189 -
"The making of Turkish exceptionalism: the west, the rest and unreconciled issues from the past",
Yanık, Lerna K.; , Turkish Studies, (2022) DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2159816 -
"Cultural heritage as status seeking: The international politics of Turkey’s restoration wave",
Yanık, Lerna K.; Subotić, Jelena; , Cooperation and Conflict, (2021) Vol.56, No.3, 245-263 DOI: 10.1177/0010836720970242 -
"Science and flags: deconstructing Turkey’s Antarctic strategy",
Yanık, Lerna K.; Karaoğuz, H. Emrah; , Third World Quarterly, (2021) Vol.42, No.8, 1661-1678 DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1941847 -
"Entrenching geopolitical imaginations: brand(ing) Turkey through Orhan Pamuk",
Yalkin, Cagri; Yanık, Lerna K.; , Journal of International Relations and Development, (2020) Vol.23, No.2, 339-358 DOI: 10.1057/s41268-018-0153-1 -
"'They wrote history with their bodies': Necrogeopolitics, necropolitical spaces and the everyday spatial politics of death in Turkey"
, Yanik, Lerna K.; Hisarlioğlu, Fulya; , Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence and Resistance, (2019) -
"Debating Eurasia: Political travels of a geographical concept in turkey",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Uluslararasi Iliskiler, (2019) Vol.16, No.63, 33-50 DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.621290 -
"Of Celebrities and Landmarks: Space, State and the Making of “Cosmopolitan” Turkey",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Geopolitics, (2017) Vol.22, No.1, 176-203 DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2016.1212020 -
"Bringing the Empire Back In: The Gradual Discovery of the Ottoman Empire in Turkish Foreign Policy",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Welt des Islams, (2016) Vol.56, No.3-4, 466-488 DOI: 10.1163/15700607-05634p09 -
"Inter-Asian (post-)neoliberalism?: Adoption, disjuncture and transgression",
Akçali, Emel; Yanik, Lerna K.; Hung, Ho Fung; , Asian Journal of Social Science, (2015) Vol.43, No.1-2, 5-21 DOI: 10.1163/15685314-04301002 -
"Turkey's involvement in the F-35 program: One step forward, two steps backward?",
Güvenç, Serhat; Yanik, Lerna K.; , International Journal, (2012) Vol.68, No.1, 111-129 DOI: 10.1177/002070201306800108 -
"Foreign policy during 2011 parliamentary elections in Turkey: Both an issue and non-issue",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Turkish Studies, (2012) Vol.13, No.2, 213-227 DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2012.685255 -
"From the Atlantic Pact to NATO: Debating Turkey's location and function in the Turkish Grand National Assembly",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Uluslararasi Iliskiler, (2012) Vol.9, No.34, 29-50 -
"Constructing Turkish "exceptionalism" Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Political Geography, (2011) Vol.30, No.2, 80-89 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.01.003 -
"The metamorphosis of metaphors of vision: "Bridging" Turkey's location, role and identity after the end of the cold war",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Geopolitics, (2009) Vol.14, No.3, 531-549 DOI: 10.1080/14650040802693515 -
"Valley of the Wolves-Iraq: Anti-geopolitics alla turca",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, (2009) Vol.2, No.1, 153-170 DOI: 10.1163/187398609X430660 -
"Allies or partners? An appraisal of Turkey's ties to Russia, 1991-2007",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , East European Quarterly, (2007) Vol.41, No.3, 349-370 -
"Guns and human rights: Major powers, global arms transfer, and human rights violations",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Human Rights Quarterly, (2006) Vol.28, No.2, 357-388 DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2006.0026 -
"'Nevruz' or 'Newroz'? Deconstructing the 'invention' of a contested tradition in contemporary Turkey",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Middle Eastern Studies, (2006) Vol.42, No.2, 285-302 DOI: 10.1080/00263200500417710 -
"The politics of educational exchange: Turkish education in Eurasia",
Yanik, Lerna K.; , Europe - Asia Studies, (2004) Vol.56, No.2, 293-307 DOI: 10.1080/0966813042000190551
Projects
Project Name | Role in the Project | Project Type | Fund Establishment | Start Date | End Date |
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"Deprem ve Kadın: İstanbul'da Toplumsal Kırılganlıklara Duyarlı, Afet Risk Azaltma ve Hazırlık Planlamaları İçin Tespit, Tetkik ve Çözüm Önerileri" | Yürütücü | Ulusal Proje | TÜBİTAK ARDEB |
01.12.2021 |
01.12.2024 |
"CA19129 - Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice" | Yürütücü | Uluslararası Proje | COST |
09.09.2020 |
08.09.2024 |
"CA18140 - People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923)" | Yürütücü | Uluslararası Proje | COST |
09.04.2019 |
08.04.2023 |
"109K240: Türkiye’yi Konumlandırmak: Türk Dış Politikasında Konum, Kimlik ve Uluslararası İşlev Bağlarını Çözümlemek" | Yürütücü | Ulusal Proje | TÜBİTAK ARDEB |
15.10.2009 |
15.10.2012 |
Courses Offered
Course Name | Course Code | Period |
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Introduction to Political Science II | PSIR102 | 2024/25 Spring |
Turkish Politics | PSIR206 | 2024/25 Spring |
Introduction to Political Science I | PSIR101 | 2024/25 Fall |
Comparative Politics | PSIR303 | 2024/25 Fall |