Publications

  Papers published in international refereed journals (SCI & SSCI & Arts and Humanities)

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Özge Çetiner (2025). “NATO’s Quest for Ontological Security: Securitizing Russia in the Arctic”. Uluslararası İlişkiler. DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.1718983 (SSCI)

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi (2024). “Europeanization as a Hegemonic Process: The Counter-Hegemonic Coal Phase-Out Struggle in Turkey”. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2024.2314538 (SSCI)

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Bodur-Ün, Marella  (2022). “The counter-hegemonic struggle and the framing practices of the Anti-Nuclear Platform in Turkey (2002-2018)”. Environment & Planning C: Politics & Space, 36(1):160-177.(SSCI)

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi (2020). “Tracing Discursive Strategies to Understand the US Withdrawal from the Nuclear Deal”. Uluslararası İlişkiler. 17 (66): 61-76. (SSCI)

Balkan-Şahin. Sevgi. 2018. “Nuclear Energy as a Hegemonic Discourse in Turkey”. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. 21(4): 443-461. (SSCI)

Balkan-Şahin. Sevgi. 2012. “Central Bank Independence in Turkey: A neo-Gramscian Analysis”. Cooperation and Conflict. 47(1): 106-123. (SSCI)

Balkan-Şahin. Sevgi. 2010. “Privatization as a Hegemonic Process in Turkey”. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 18(4): 483-498. (SSCI)

     Other international refereed journals

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi & Çetiner, Özge. (2025). Ontological Security with Its Widening and

Deepening Boundaries: An Evaluation through Bibliometric and Systematic Review Lens.

All Azimuth. 14(2):251-272.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Özge Çetiner (2024). “NATO’s Securitization of Climate Change in the Arctic”. Güvenlik Stratejileri. 20(47):83-98.

      Taşdemir, İlke, Marella Bodur Ün, and Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi (2021). “Türkiye’de Termik Santral Karşıtı Hareket: Çırpılar Örneği”. Alternatif Politika. 13 (2): 439-471.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi (2020). “The Ongoing Iranian Securitization of the United States After the Nuclear Deal: An Actor and Context-Based Analysis”. 9 Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 22(2):715-737.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. 2019. “A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Incomplete Doha Development Trade Round”. Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Dergisi. 74(1): 237-255.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. 2018. “Acknowledging the Flexibilities of the TRlPS Agreement:  Ensuring the Right to Access to Medicines or a Strategy of Passive Revolution?” Alternatif Politika.10(3):544-565.

Book Chapters

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Özge Çetiner (2024). “NATO’nun Operasyonel Kimliği Çerçevesinde İklim Değişikliği ile Mücadeleki Rolü” (The Role of NATO in the Struggle Against Climate Change within the Framework of its Operational Identity) in Harun Arıkan and Ali Gök (ed.) Güvenliği Yeniden Okumak (Re-Assessing Security).pp. 251-277. Ankara:Yetkin Yayınları.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Marella Bodur-Ün (2023). “Transformation of Turkey’s Environmental Policy: A Case of Selective Europeanization?” in Harun Arıkan and Zeynep Alemdar (ed.) Turkey’s Challenges and Transformation: Politics and Society on the Centennial of the Republic, pp.165-184. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi (2022). “Afghanistan: An R2P Concern” in Pınar Gözen Ercan (ed.) The Responsibility to Protect Twenty Years On: Rhetoric and Implementation. pp. 197-221. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan.

Bodur-Ün, Marella and Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi (May 2019). “Searching for a Positive Intercultural Transition between Syrian Refugees and Turkish Society” in Samuel Peleg (ed.) Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogues for Global Peacebuilding and Stability. IGI Global.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi (2020). “Understanding the Confrontational Turkish Foreign Energy Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean from a Neo-Realist Perspective” in Theory and Research in Social, Human and Administrative Sciences. pp.233-249. Gece Kitaplığı: Ankara.

      Papers presented at international conferences

      Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Özge Çetiner. “The Role of Regimes in Ensuring Ontological Security”. presented at the “18^th Pan-European Conference on International Relations”, Bologna. 25-29 August 2025.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Özge Çetiner. “NATO’s Quest for Nuclear Deterrence from Ontological Security and Securitization Perspectives”. presented at the “66th ISA Annual Convention: Reconnecting International Studies”, Chicago. 2-5 March 2025.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “The Coal-Exit Struggle in Turkey: A Europeanization Perspective”. presented at the “2^nd UNITAR Research Conference”, Brussels,  3-4 December 2024.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Özge Çetiner. “The Reflection of the Eastern Mediterranean on Academic Studies: A Review through Bibliometric Analysis” presented at the “4th Hitit International Congress on Security Studies”,  Çorum, 12-14 November 2024.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Özge Çetiner. “Ontolojik Güvenlik Çalışmalarının Bibliyometrik Analizi” (The Bibliometric Analysis of Ontological Security Studies) presented at the “3. INTPOLSEC International Security Conference”, Konya, 30-31 May 2024.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Özge Çetiner. “Examining NATO’s Climate Change Approach from a Constructivist Perspective” presented at the “X. International Yıldız Social Sciences Congress”, Istanbul, 21-22 December 2023.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Özge Çetiner. “NATO’s Approach to Climate Change: A Study on Organizational Identity and Securitization” presented at the “III. International Hitit Security Studies Congress”, Çorum, 1-3 December 2023.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi and Özge Çetiner. “NATO’s Securitization of Climate Change in the Arctic” presented at the “1st International UNITAR Research Conference - Climate Security: Peace & Security Consequences of Climate Change”, Bonn, Germany, 24 November 2023.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “Promoting the European Green Deal for the Europeanization of the Turkish Coal-Exit Process” presented at the “III. International Relations Symposium”, Ardahan, 22-23 November 2023.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi.  “A neo-Gramscian Analysis of Turkish Compliance with its Climate Change Commitments” presented at the “VI. International Yıldız Social Sciences Congress”, İstanbul, Turkey, 12-13 December 2019.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “Promoting an Environmental-Friendly Identity: The Securitization of Climate Change by the European Union” presented at the “The Future of European Union and Turkey-EU Relations Conference”. Maraş, Turkey, 21-23 November 2019.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “The Iranian Securitization of the United States: An Actor and Context-Based Analysis” presented at the “CEEISA-ISA Joint International Conference”. Belgrade, Serbia, 17-19 June 2019.

Taşdemir, İlke, Bodur-Ün, Marella, and Balkan-Şahin Sevgi. “Neo-Gramşiyan Yaklaşım Çerçevesinde Türkiye’de Çevreci Hareketler: Akkuyu ve Fındıklı Örnekleri” presented at the “III. International Applied Social Science Congress (C-IASOS)”. Çeşme, Turkey, 4-6 April 2019.

Bodur-Ün, Marella and Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi.  “Through Their Eyes: An Analysis of Intercultural Interactions between Turkish Citizens and Syrian Refugees in Mersin and Adana” presented at the International Studies Association (60th Annual convention), Toronto, Canada, 27 - 30 Mart 2019.

 Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “The Counter-Hegemonic Struggle of the Turkish Anti-Nuclear Platform” presented at the 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. Barcelona, Spain, 13-16 September 2017.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “The Endurance of US-Iranian Enmity After the Nuclear Deal: A Constructivist-based Discourse Analysis” presented at the 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. Giardini Naxos, Italy, 23-26 September 2015.

      Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “Constructing the Nuclear Energy ‘Reality’ in Turkey: the Role of Ideas

      presented at the Fourth Global International Studies Conference on Justice, Peace and Stability:

      Risks and Opportunities for Governance and Development, Frankfurt, Germany, 6-9 August 2014.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “Tracing the Repeated Failure of Doha Development Trade Round from a Neo- Gramscian Perspective”. Paper presented at the International Political Economy session of the 22.World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, Spain, 8-12 July 2012.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “The Democratic Transformation of the Turkish State from a neo-Gramscian Perspective” paper presented at the conference Democratization and the European Union, Adana, 8 May 2009.

Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “The Impact of Economic Liberalism on the Turkish State” paper presented at the conference “Hegemonic States and Transitions”, Vancouver, Canada, 23-24 February 2007.

      Balkan-Şahin, Sevgi. “Internalizing the Hegemonic Idea of Economic Liberalism: The Case of Turkey” paper presented at the conference “The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Limits of Transnational Liberalism”, Glasgow, UK, 4-6 September 2007.