LERNA KOHARİK YANIK

Professor LERNA KOHARİK YANIK

A BLOK 1. KAT 229

+90 (212) 5336532 - 1647

[email protected]

ORCID

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

  • Hisarlıoğlu, Fulya; Yanık, Lerna K. (2024), "The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols", Cooperation and Conflict, DOI: 10.1177/00108367241269620
  • Özdamar, Özgür; Yanik, Lerna K. (2024), "Populist hyperpersonalization and politicization of foreign policy institutions", International Affairs, Vol.100, No.5, 1835-1856 DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiae181
  • Hisarlıoğlu, Fulya; Karagiannopoulou, Chara; Yanık, Lerna K. (2024), "Identity, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece Through Ayasofya", Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2318675
  • Yanık, Lerna K. (2023), "Turkey and the Russian invasion of Ukraine: an interplay of bloc (de)formation, recognition and asymmetric interdependencies?", Globalizations, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2023.2232189
  • Yanık, Lerna K. (2022), "The making of Turkish exceptionalism: the west, the rest and unreconciled issues from the past", Turkish Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2159816
  • Yanık, Lerna K.; Subotić, Jelena (2021), "Cultural heritage as status seeking: The international politics of Turkey’s restoration wave", Cooperation and Conflict, Vol.56, No.3, 245-263 DOI: 10.1177/0010836720970242
  • Yanık, Lerna K.; Karaoğuz, H. Emrah (2021), "Science and flags: deconstructing Turkey’s Antarctic strategy", Third World Quarterly, Vol.42, No.8, 1661-1678 DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1941847
  • Yalkin, Cagri; Yanık, Lerna K. (2020), "Entrenching geopolitical imaginations: brand(ing) Turkey through Orhan Pamuk", Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol.23, No.2, 339-358 DOI: 10.1057/s41268-018-0153-1
  • Yanik, Lerna K.; Hisarlioğlu, Fulya (2019), "'They wrote history with their bodies': Necrogeopolitics, necropolitical spaces and the everyday spatial politics of death in Turkey", Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence and Resistance,
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2019), "Debating Eurasia: Political travels of a geographical concept in turkey", Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol.16, No.63, 33-50 DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.621290
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2017), "Of Celebrities and Landmarks: Space, State and the Making of “Cosmopolitan” Turkey", Geopolitics, Vol.22, No.1, 176-203 DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2016.1212020
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2016), "Bringing the Empire Back In: The Gradual Discovery of the Ottoman Empire in Turkish Foreign Policy", Welt des Islams, Vol.56, No.3-4, 466-488 DOI: 10.1163/15700607-05634p09
  • Akçali, Emel; Yanik, Lerna K.; Hung, Ho Fung (2015), "Inter-Asian (post-)neoliberalism?: Adoption, disjuncture and transgression", Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol.43, No.1-2, 5-21 DOI: 10.1163/15685314-04301002
  • Güvenç, Serhat; Yanik, Lerna K. (2012), "Turkey's involvement in the F-35 program: One step forward, two steps backward?", International Journal, Vol.68, No.1, 111-129 DOI: 10.1177/002070201306800108
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2012), "Foreign policy during 2011 parliamentary elections in Turkey: Both an issue and non-issue", Turkish Studies, Vol.13, No.2, 213-227 DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2012.685255
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2012), "From the Atlantic Pact to NATO: Debating Turkey's location and function in the Turkish Grand National Assembly", Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol.9, No.34, 29-50
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2011), "Constructing Turkish "exceptionalism" Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy", Political Geography, Vol.30, No.2, 80-89 DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.01.003
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2009), "The metamorphosis of metaphors of vision: "Bridging" Turkey's location, role and identity after the end of the cold war", Geopolitics, Vol.14, No.3, 531-549 DOI: 10.1080/14650040802693515
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2009), "Valley of the Wolves-Iraq: Anti-geopolitics alla turca", Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Vol.2, No.1, 153-170 DOI: 10.1163/187398609X430660
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2007), "Allies or partners? An appraisal of Turkey's ties to Russia, 1991-2007", East European Quarterly, Vol.41, No.3, 349-370
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2006), "Guns and human rights: Major powers, global arms transfer, and human rights violations", Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.28, No.2, 357-388 DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2006.0026
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2006), "'Nevruz' or 'Newroz'? Deconstructing the 'invention' of a contested tradition in contemporary Turkey", Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.42, No.2, 285-302 DOI: 10.1080/00263200500417710
  • Yanik, Lerna K. (2004), "The politics of educational exchange: Turkish education in Eurasia", Europe - Asia Studies, Vol.56, No.2, 293-307 DOI: 10.1080/0966813042000190551

Projects

Project Name Role in the Project Project Type Fund Establishment Project Date
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
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