Umut Özkırımlı is a Visiting Professor at IBEI (Barcelona Institut d’Estudis Internacionals) and Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull. He is also a Senior Research Associate at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). He is the author of Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (3rd edition, 2017) and of the forthcoming Dumb Swedes, Smart Turks? Nationalism, Democracy and the Global Crisis of Trust (with Lars Trägårdh and Henrik Berggren).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hej Carl Bildt, are you asleep? Should Europe still stand by Erdoğan?Dedicated to Aydın Engin, or “uncle Aydın”, and all jailed writers and journalists in Turkey.
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Published in: HomeVery Turkish abduction from the seraglio and crocodile tears of the ‘West’The international “friends of Turkey” bear a great deal of responsibility for Turkey’s predicament, a fact that the...
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Published in: HomeOn ‘bad writing’, politics and killing a Kurd…Now is the time to speak up, even if our words can be found wanting in the face of complex realities and the...
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Published in: HomeAnkara bombing and the end of the Turkish RepublicWhat we have witnessed in the last two years, culminating in the horrible scenes of 10 October in Ankara, is the end...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?#QuiSommesNous? A Socratic dialogue on “L’Affaire Charlie Hebdo”Freedoms are not unlimited but who, when and how can we limit them? Two colleagues agree to disagree. Content...
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Published in: HomeThe Ayatollah's second coming: critical reflections on a 'non-interview'Richard Falk's laudatory tone towards Turkish Prime Minister Davutoğlu and the ruling AKP raises troubling questions...