Caglayan Baser, Ph.D.

caglayan.baser@nyu.edu


Visiting Professor

New York University Abu Dhabi

Year of PhD: 2020

Country: United Arab Emirates

About Me:

I am a Visiting Scholar at the Social Sciences Division of New York University -  Abu Dhabi. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago. My research contributes to the areas of political violence, gender politics, and domestic sources of international relations. My research is published in World Politics. At Loyola and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, I taught courses on international relations, gender and security, racial and ethnic politics, and social justice. I am an Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Institute alum and a Women in International Security (WIIS) Next Generation Fellow. 

Research Interests

Conflict Processes & War

Gender and Politics

Political Violence

Middle East & North African Politics

Terrorism

Race, Ethnicity and Politics

International Organizations

Gender And War

Violence And Gender

Civil War

Rebel Governance

Rebel Group Women

Rebel Tactics

International Security

Feminist International Relations

Kurdish Politics

Ethnic Conflict

Publications:

Journal Articles:

(2019) The Choice Between Intergovernmentalism and Nongovernmentalism: Projecting Domestic Preferences to Global Governance, World Politics

This article seeks to explain when governments are more likely to take an intergovernmental approach to resolving global collective problems rather than step back and encourage (or simply allow) nongovernmental actors to become the main global governors. The authors suggest that an important factor driving this choice is the domestic ideological leanings of powerful states toward greater or lesser government activism. Such ideologies connect domestic preferences to international ones. They also lead to the establishment of domestic institutions that, in turn, facilitate the emergence of international organizations. Using these arguments, the authors develop a set of inferences regarding the likelihood that governments will establish and join intergovernmental organizations. The authors test their hypotheses through a study of global governance in the education realm, and also apply a series of statistical analyses covering developments in all issue-areas over the last century and a half.