About

Seda Gürkan is lecturer at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Department of Political Science and European Studies Institute. She is a graduate of London School of Economics (LSE), ULB and Diplomatic School of Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was previously research fellow at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC and visiting scholar at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). She is the country expert (Turkey) for Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI) and consultant to the European Parliament (since 2020). Her research interests include EU policy-making, EU institutions, European integration theories, parliamentary diplomacy (European Parliament), Europeanization, EU-Turkey relations and contemporary Turkey. Her latest publications include a co-edited volume, titled Theorizing the Crises of the European Union published by Routledge (2021) and a special issue on the Emotions in EU Foreign Policy published by the Global Affairs (2021).

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Democratisation, European Union, International Relations, European Parliament, Policy-Making

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Southern European Politics
• European Union
• Teaching and Learning Politics
• Young ECPR Network on Europeanisation (YEN)
• Political Psychology
• International Relations
• Parliaments