Highest degree earned
Bio
Çağlayan Başer, assistant professor of political science, will teach classes in international relations, gender and security. Başer was a visiting scholar and instructor with New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Prior to that, she served as a visiting scholar and instructor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Başer’s research focuses on the links between domestic and international politics, gender and conflict studies. She has written two peer-reviewed articles: “Women Insurgents, Rebel Organization Structure and Sustaining the Rebellion: The Case of Kurdistan Workers’ Party,” and “The Choice Between Intergovernmentalism and Nongovernmentalism: Projecting Domestic Preferences to Global Governance” and has a monograph under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Her research has been supported by NYUAD’s Global Dynamics Research and Inequality Funds, the Fund for Inclusion and Innovation and the American Political Science Association, among others. She is a Women in International Security Fellow and an Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models alumna.
Başer earned a Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago in 2020.
Areas of Expertise
Publications
Books
“Public Preferences, Gender, and Foreign Support for Armed Movements” (monograph under contract in Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements Gender and Politics Series, expected Jan 2024)
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Women Insurgents, Rebel Group Structure and Sustaining the Rebellion: The Case of Kurdistan Workers’ Party” 2022. Security Studies 31(3): 381-416
“The Choice Between Intergovernmentalism and Nongovernmentalism: Projecting Domestic Preferences to
Global Governance” with Alexandru Grigorescu. 2019. World Politics 71(1):88-125.
Other Publications
Review of Understanding Nonviolence: Contours and Contexts, edited by Maia Carter Hallward and
Julie M. Norman. 2016. Democratization 23(7): 1316-1318
Working Papers
“Recognizing Women’s Role in Violence within the UN Women, Peace, Security Agenda” (under review)
“International Organizations and Domestic Support for Women’s Rights in the Middle East: Evidence from Saudi Arabia” (with Mujtaba Ali Isani)
“Gender Norms and Rebel Group Survivability”
“International Status and Domestic Support for Women’s Political Representation (with Ekrem T. Başer)
“Transnational Activist Frameworks and Support for Gendered Redistribution of Power” (with Yusuf Magiya)
“Gender Differences in International Cooperation”