Dr. Berk Esen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Sabancı University, Turkey. He received his PhD in Government from Cornell University in 2015 and was an IPC-Stiftung Mercator Fellow in the Center for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. His research interests include the political economy of development, party politics and authoritarian regimes with a focus on Latin America and the Middle East. His research has appeared in academic journals such as Party Politics, Journal of Democracy, Third World Quarterly, Government and Opposition, Armed Forces & Society, PS: Political Science & Politics, South European Society and Politics, Journal of Near East and Balkan Studies, Mediterranean Politics, Middle East Journal, Turkish Studies, and Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. Dr. Esen is the author and editor of three books on Turkish politics. He is the recipient of the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award for his work on democratic backsliding in Turkey and Hungary, as well as the Turkish Science Academy Young Scientist Award (BAGEP).
