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Digdem Soyaltin
Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"
PhD Candidate
Ihnestr. 26
14195
Berlin
Tel.:
+49 (0) 30 838 57055
E-Mail: soyaltin@transnationalstudies.eu
Short CV
- 2009–2010: Central European University,Hungary, M.Phil in Political Science
- 2007–2009: Lund University, Sweden, M.Sc in European Affairs
- 2004–2006: Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey, M.A in EU Studies
- 2000–2004: Ege University, Turkey, B.A in International Relations
- 11/2008-02/2009: Internship SIEPS-Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies,Stockholm/Sweden
- 05/2007-09/2007: Research Fellow Media Monitoring Project: 2007 Presidential Elections in Turkey, University of Exeter-Centre of European Studies and Dokuz Eylul University-EU Graduate Department
Main Fields of Interest
- International and Transnational Relations
- International Norms, Domestic Politics and Political Change
- Europeanization, Norm Diffusion and Domestic Compliance in and beyond EU
- EU Enlargement Policy, Democratization and EU-Turkey Relations
- Party Politics, Political Discourse and Elites in Turkey
KFG Research Project
Ph.D. Project: Europeanization, Norm Diffusion and Domestic Compliance in Turkey; How Political Colour of the Government Matters? (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel and Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse)
How, under which conditions and to what extent does promotion of the EU’s democratic norms lead to internalization and consolidation (of these norms) in Turkey? How does political colour of the government affect (facilitate or impede) this process?
This study investigates the EU’s promotion of democratic norms defined under Copenhagen political criteria and the domestic compliance in Turkey at three levels- norm empowerment, adoption and institutionalization since 1999. The study particularly seeks to shed light on the ‘processes of conflict, resistance and politics surrounding the process of the EU’s norm promotion’ and to bring the domestic politics to the forefront. To do so, the study adds norm empowerment as an early stage of norm adoption to the analysis and aims to develop alternative hypotheses about the scope conditions under which different party political constellations impede/facilitate the norm adoption and institutionalization.
Publications
'Review: Mobilizing for Human Rights. International Law in Domestic Politics, Simmons, Beth A. (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009'. In: Political Studies Review, 2012 (forthcoming).
'Review: The Black Sea Region and EU Policy. The Challenge of Divergent Agendas, Henderson, Karen/Weaver, Carol (eds.), Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2010'. In: Journal of Common Market Studies, 49(5), 2011 (forthcoming).
'Review: Trial of Europeanization: Turkish Political Culture and the European Union, Grigoriadis, Ioannis, Houndmills/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009'. In: European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2011 (forthcoming).
'Europeanization Filtered: How Partisan Factor Matter for EU legal Norm Adoption in Turkey” Paper presented at the KFG-Sabanci Workshop “Faraway So Close? Reaching beyond the Pro/Contra Controversy on Turkey's EU Accession”, 2-4 June, Istanbul, 2011.
'Drivers or Spoilers of Europeanization? Actor Constellations and EU legal Norm Adoption in Turkey'. Paper presented at the Koc University Workshop “Europeanization: EU and Beyond ”, 13-14 May, Istanbul, 2011.
'Filtered Europeanization: How Different Political Actor Constellations Matter for the EU legal Norm Adoption in Turkey?' Paper presented at the EUSA Biennial Conference, 3-5 March, Boston, 2011.
'Europeanization Culturally Filtered? Questioning the Conditionality-Compliance Linkage in Turkey and Serbia'. Paper presented at KFG Conference The Transformative Power of Europe, Freie Universität Berlin, 10-11 December, Berlin, 2009.
‘Europeanization: Culturally Filtered? Questioning the Conditionality‐Compliance Linkage in Turkey and Serbia’, Paper presented at Kolleg-Forschergruppe, 2009
‘Does Candidate Status Matter? Unpacking the Relationship between Europeanization and Conditionality in Turkey and Serbia” MSc. Thesis, Lund University, 2009
‘Europeanization as a path dependent process in Turkey: Changing Positions of Political Parties within Unchanging European trajectory’, Paper presented at the RSCAS-EUI, Florence, 2009
‘Expecting The Unforeseeable: The 2007 Turkish Elections In The Media’ (in coll. Canan Balkır, Susan Banducci and Huriye Toker) Turkish Studies, 9 (2), 2008
