Please join us for the next event in the David Calleo Lecture Series of Spring 2024, where Sibel Oktay, Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, will discuss coalitional politics and foreign policy in Europe.
Sibel Oktay (PhD 2014, Syracuse University) is associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Springfield, non-resident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and currently a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. She studies political leadership and the domestic politics of foreign policy in Europe and the Middle East. Her research appears or is forthcoming in International Studies Perspectives, European Journal of Political Research, and European Security, among others. She is the author of Governing Abroad (2022, University of Michigan Press), which received the 2023 Best Book Award from the Foreign Policy Analysis section of the International Studies Association.
Event Description
Most parliamentary systems are governed by coalitions, yet we still know little about how coalition governments engage in foreign policy. Why do some coalitions act assertively in international politics, while others postpone their decisions, water down their policy positions, or promise to do less than they otherwise would? In this talk, Sibel Oktay will offer answers by drawing from her award-winning book, Governing Abroad: Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy in Europe (2022, University of Michigan Press).
