Hershey, Pennsylvania
New York, New YorkBeijing, China

Yunus Emre Ozigci

Yunus Emre Özigci holds a PhD degree in political science from the Université catholique de Louvain. He graduated from Galatasaray University (international relations) and completed his MA studies at the University of Ankara (international relations). His research interests and publications cover IR theory and phenomenology. Since 2000, he has been working as a diplomat in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served, besides in various departments of the ministry, in Algeria, Belgium, Switzerland, and Russia. Currently, he is the first counsellor of the Turkish embassy in Nairobi and deputy permanent representative to UNON (UNEP and UN Habitat).

Publications

On Unipolarity's Inner Contradiction Inherited From Bipolarity and Its Actualisation
On Unipolarity's Inner Contradiction Inherited From Bipolarity and Its Actualisation
Yunus Emre Ozigci. © 2026. 46 pages.
Unipolarity has been fundamentally flawed due to its being an alteration of the bipolarity of the established and institutionalized central dialectic of two poles representing...
On the Phenomena of Intervention in and Disengagement From the Periphery
On the Phenomena of Intervention in and Disengagement From the Periphery
Yunus Emre Ozigci. © 2025. 26 pages.
Studying the phenomena of intervention of “outside” powers to a locality/ region and of their disengagement requires an ontological approach, differing from the current IR...
On the Mutual Inherence of Regional and Global References: The Case of the “Near-Abroad” and “Post-Bipolarity”
On the Mutual Inherence of Regional and Global References: The Case of the “Near-Abroad” and “Post-Bipolarity”
Yunus Emre Ozigci. © 2024. 21 pages.
This chapter attempts to examine a particular form of relationship between the phenomena of regionality and globality in the IR field, the “mutual inherence,” which contrasts to...