Osman Bahadir Dincer

Before joining the bicc team in 2020, Osman Bahadir Dinçer was a Research Excellence Fellow at Central European University (CEU), where he worked as an associated post-doctoral research fellow at the project Striking from the Margins: Religion, State, and Disintegration in the Middle East. Engaged in research at the International Strategic Research Organization (USAK) between 2005 and 2016, Bahadir acted as the Director of the organisation's Center for Middle Eastern Studies after 2012. As a comparative political scientist, he has focused his research on Middle Eastern politics with particular reference to the state, violent and non-violent non-state actors, social and political movements, migration and democratization. Dinçer has authored/co-authored numerous articles, reports, and policy papers for various research institutions. His academic work has appeared in various scholarly journals like the Third World Quarterly, International Migration, Migration Studies, and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, among others. Bahadir holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Bilkent University, Ankara (2016) and a master’s degree from the School of International Service at the American University, Washington DC (2008).