Senem is also a Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Istanbul Policy Center.
Her main research interests include European foreign policy, Turkish foreign policy, EU-Turkey relations, discourse studies and identity in international relations and particularly in European foreign policy.
She has also conducted research and published in the field of international democracy support, both in the context of European foreign policy through enlargement, and Turkish foreign policy.
Her articles have been published or forthcoming in journals such as International Affairs, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, Democratization, Cooperation and Conflict, and Third World Quarterly, Politics, among others.
She is a fellow of the Young Academy of Europe, a member of the ECFR Council, and a member of the Carnegie Rising Democracies Network.
Turkey and the European Union
with Nathalie Tocci, Palgrave, 2015
Constructions of European Identity
Palgrave, 2012
