Seçkin Köstem

Seçkin Köstem is an assistant professor of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from McGill University (Montreal, Canada), Department of Political Science. Köstem’s research interests include International Political Economy with a specific focus on regional and rising powers, as well as Russian foreign economic policy, and the post-Soviet space. His doctoral dissertation investigates how national identity conceptions influence foreign economic policies of Turkey and Russia. He has been a visiting researcher at the Russia Institute of King’s College London and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Köstem’s articles have been published and forthcoming in Foreign Policy Analysis, Global Policy and Review of International Political Economy.