Political Science, CUNY, The Graduate Center, 2007

Sociology, METU, 1998; International Affairs, Columbia University, 2000

International Relations, Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences, 1995

Foreign Policy, Security, Citizenship, Populism

Current Issues in Turkish Foreign Policy

Russian Politics 

Dr. Evren Balta holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from The Graduate Center, CUNY (2007), an MA in Sociology from Middle East Technical University (1999), and an MIA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (2001). She earned her BA in International Relations from Ankara University's Faculty of Political Sciences.

Dr. Balta’s research covers various topics in political science, focusing on security, internal conflict, Turkish foreign policy, populism, and citizenship, with her work appearing in leading journals such as Democratisation, Party Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Sociology. She has authored several significant works, including Politics of the Future (with Fuat Keyman, Ayrinti Publications, 2022), The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism (with O. Altan-Olcay, UPenn, 2020; Turkish edition, 2024), Age of Uneasiness (İletişim Publications, 2019), and Global Security Complex (İletişim Publications, 2012). Additionally, she has edited volumes such as Neighbors with Suspicion: Dynamics of Turkish-Russian Relations (with G. Özcan and B. Beşgül, İletişim Publications, 2017), Introduction to Global Politics (İletişim Publications, 2014), and Military, State, and Politics in Turkey (with İ. Akça, Bilgi University Publications, 2010).

Her book, The American Passport, received the American Sociological Association’s Best Book by an International Scholar Award from the Global and Transnational Sociology section. Her research has been supported by institutions such as the American Association of University Women, the Mellon Foundation, the Bella Zeller Scholarship Trust Fund, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, and the Fulbright Scholar Program.

Dr. Balta has held academic and research positions, including roles as Assistant and Associate Professor at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul; a visiting scholar at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (Russia in Global Dialogue Program, 2017); and a visiting professor in the Program in International Relations at New York University (Fulbright Visiting Scholar, 2017-2018). Currently, she is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In 2018, she was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Political Science Program at CUNY-The Graduate Center 

Dr. Balta is the Academic Coordinator of the TÜSİAD Global Politics Forum and actively advises civil society and political parties in Turkey. She also contributes to domestic and international media on issues related to democracy and Turkish foreign policy.