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Institute of Global Challenges and Cultures (IGCC)

Global Labour Research Centre (York University, Canada), External Faculty Associate

Books

• (2025) Turkey and the Global Political Economy: Geographies, Regions, and Actors in a Changing World Order, Co-edited volume I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury
• (2021) The Condition of the Working Class in Turkey: Labour under Neoliberal Authoritarianism, Co-edited with C.E. Sahin, Pluto Press London

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Erol, M.E. and Sahin, C.E. (2022) ‘Neoliberal Authoritarianism and Labour Unions in the Global South: The Cases of Egypt and Turkey’ Canadian Journal of Development Studies DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2022.2119945
• Erol, M.E. (2020) ‘From Dictatorship to ‘Democracy’: Neoliberal Continuity and its Crisis in Tunisia’, New Middle Eastern Studies, 10(2), pp.147-163,
• Erol, M.E. (2019) ‘State and Labour under the AKP Rule in Turkey: An Appraisal’, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 21(6), pp 663-677

Book Chapters

• (2025) Turkey’s Engagement with the Middle East and North Africa: A Critical International Political Economy Perspective, in Turkey and the Global Political Economy: Geographies, Regions, and Actors in a Changing World Order, IB Tauris/Bloomsbury
• (2021) Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: Neoliberalism and the Justice and Development Party in Turkey, in The Condition of the Working Class in Turkey: Labour under Neoliberal Authoritarianism, Pluto Press
• (2016) Politics of economic policy-making during the AKP era in Turkey: A debate in the context of continuity and change (in Turkish). In T.Tören and M. Kutun (eds.), “Yeni” Türkiye’de Kapitalizm-1: Devlet ve Sermaye. İstanbul: SAV Publications.

Book reviews

• Erol, M.E. (2020). ‘Between national liberalism and progressive internationalism: quo vadis globalization?’ Review of Is Globalization Over?, Renewal, 28 (3)
• Erol, M.E. (2016). ‘The political economy of labour market reforms: Greece, Turkey and the global economic crisis’, Political Studies Review, 14(4).
• Erol, M.E. (2015). ‘Transition to Neoliberalism: The Case of Turkey in the 1980s, Review of Radical Political Economics’, 47 (1), 123-125.

Website Content & Op-Eds

• (2024) Assad's Fall, Turkey's Victory? A Critical Appraisal, The Bullet, https://socialistproject.ca/2024/12/assads-fall-turkey-victory-a-critical-appraisal/ 
• (2023) De la géopolitique à la lutte des classes: comprendre la Victoire d’Erdoğan, Le Grand Continent,
• (2020) Debating ‘State Capitalism’ in Turkey: Beyond False Dichotomies, Developing Economics, (Available at )
• (2020) Reassessing the ‘Return’ of the State: Bringing Class Back In, Developing Economics (Available at )
• (2019) Turkey’s Crisis and the Curious Case of the ‘Fight Against Inflation’, LSE Middle East Centre Blog (Available at )

Political Economy of Development; Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa; Global Political Economy and International Development; Labour Markets and Trade Unions in the Global South; State Theory; Turkish Politics/Political Economy

Global Political Economy; International Development; International Security and Development

• BA Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics (2009)
• MA University of York, UK, International Political Economy (2011)
• PhD University of York, UK, Politics (2016)

Global Political Economy and Development (Postgraduate); Global Political Economy: Race, Gender, Class (Undergraduate); Global Inequalities (Undergraduate) International Security in a Globalised World (Undergraduate)

Scientific Advisory Committee, United Metalworkers' Union, Turkey.

British International Studies Association (BISA)

International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE)

Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

• (2024) 'Turkey's Engagement with the Middle East and North Africa: A Critical International Political Economy Perspective', Historical Materialism Istanbul 2024, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, 4-7 April 2024
• (2023) 'Making Sense of Turkey's 2023 Elections through the Lens of Critical Political Economy: A Tale of Two Development Paradigms?', Historical Materialism 2023 Conference, SOAS University of London, 9-12 November
• (2023) Invited Discussant: Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders of Arab Capitalism (Cambridge MENAF book launch event, Newnham College)
• (2021) Workshop Organiser: Turkey and the Global Political Economy (Online)
• (2019) ‘Right-wing Authoritarian Populism and Academic Freedoms in Turkey, Brazil and Hungary’, Churchill College University of Cambridge, Nature of Expertise Workshop, 29 November 2019
• (2018) ‘Labour, State and Crisis of the AKP’. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Geopolitical Economy of Turkey’s Rise and Crisis, 19 October 2018, University of Stirling, UK
• (2017) From ‘Democratisation’ to ‘Authoritarianism’?: Putting Turkey’s AKP in its Place’, 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association: (Un)Making Europe, 29 August-1 September, Athens, Greece.
• (2017) ‘Financialisation and Labour in Contemporary Turkish Political Economy: Notes on Debt, Discipline and Resistance’, 35th International Labour Process Conference, 4-6 April 2017, Sheffield, UK.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Labor and Society

Foreign Policy magazine: 6 books to understand contemporary Turkey

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