Sefa Secen

Very interesting discussion by Michael Sandel and @DAcemogluMIT on democracy in the age of AI - including the important topic of the unwarranted (and often deeply embarrassing) attribution of social and even intellectual esteem and deference to financial and tech elites. Well worth listening to. project-syndicate.org/onpoint/saving…

Pre-doc Position (3 Years) in the Project “Party Systems and Social Cleavages in the Post-Ottoman Space of the MENA Region” (CLOSER), Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. orient.cas.cz/en/news/JOB-CA…

Postdoc Fellowships: Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism Deadline: March 10 irgac.org/calls/rethinki…

"We are fighting against three giants, my dear Sancho: injustice, fear and ignorance." Miguel de Cervantes Art, Picasso

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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

@abdirashidmd @IsseMehdi Congratulations, Abdirashid!

Excited to share that I successfully defended my PhD dissertation in Just Transition to Electric Vehicles at The Ohio State University. Huge thanks to my advisor Huyen Le and committee members Jeff Bielicki, Andre Carrel and Harvey Miller. Alhamdulillah!

@LiselHintz @AnneKirstineR Thank you so much again for organizing this workshop and providing thorough and constructive feedback!

@AnneKirstineR 2. Sefa Seçen @SefaSecen3 2025. "Between Worlds: Ontological Security among Syrian Refugees in Germany and Turkey." Congratulations, and thanks to discussant Bahar Rumelili! academic.oup.com/jogss/article/…

I'm working with @POMEPS to check in on papers presented in our workshops. To brighten our feeds, and boost hope around studying the Middle East, I wanted to share some papers that early career scholars workshopped and then published. Three from our Spring 2024 VRWs:

UNITED STATES: 15 million more adults under 35 are now living with their parents compared to a decade ago, according to Fortune report.

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The best opportunities in life never look like opportunities. ㅤ If they did, everyone would take them and they would stop being opportunities.

Overthinking is the art of creating problems that don’t exist.

I wrote a short article, “Competitive Multilateralism and the Future of Global Governance,” for E-International Relations. In this piece, I explore how liberal internationalism is giving way to a more fragmented and competitive form of multilateralism. e-ir.info/2025/07/23/com…

The thing about fragility is-with every crack, the structure becomes more irreparable.

I wrote a short piece for @EurasiaReview, Russia’s Forgotten Minority: The Ahiska Turks And The Geopolitics Of Ethnic Marginalization.

Happy to share this reading list which includes over 350 articles, books, and policy reports related to Syrian politics and the civil war in Syria. I’ll keep updating this initial list with new research, topics, and Arabic sources markberlin2.com/civil-war-in-s…

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it” ― Paulo Coelho

"Biraz zaman geçsin her şeyi unutursun. Biraz zaman geçsin, her şey seni unutur." —Marcus Aurelius

cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🚨 Super excited to see my paper, "Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies", finally out in the American Political Science Review @apsrjournal Quick thread below🧵

🧵 1/ How do local politics shape where refugees want to live in the host states? In our new study (w/ @SefaSecen3 & @aykut_ozturk_ ), we examine the internal destination preferences of Syrian refugees in Turkey and Germany. The results are important.👇