Dr Metin Koca
British Academy International Fellow

Department of Sociology
Law and Sociology Building
University of York
YO10 5GD

Dr. Erpul is Instructor of International Relations at Bilkent University. He earned his B.A. (2009) and M.A. (2012) in International Relations at Bilkent University and earned his Ph.D. at Florida International University (2019). His dissertation examines, by way of exploring the grand strategies of the U.S. and China in the post-Cold War period, under what circumstances states will challenge, uphold, or reform international order. His research interests lie at the intersection of foreign policy and domestic politics, specifically the relationship between maladaptive foreign policies and domestic porocesses like populism.  Erpul is also broadly interested in various security studies and foreign policy topics like grand strategy, strategic culture, Turkey-US relations, and state formation. Erpul’s research agenda also extends to curiosities regarding epistemic hierarchies in the IR discipline. Erpul’s publications have appeared in All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace, International Theory, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Southeast European & Black Sea Studies Journal. Erpul was also the Managing Editor of All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace (2019-2024) and currently serves on its editorial board.

Deepshikha Shahi is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the O.P. Jindal Global University, India. She is the recipient of the Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers, and the Co-chair of the European International Studies Association’s standing section on “Globalising IR”. Her research interests revolve around Global International Relations, practice theory, philosophy of science, pedagogical practices, politics of knowledge-production, and Indian politics. She is the author of Global IR Research Programme: A Futuristic Foundation of ‘One and Many’ (2023, Palgrave Macmillan), Advaita as a Global International Relations Theory (2019, Routledge), Kautilya and Non-Western IR Theory (2018, Palgrave Macmillan), and Understanding Post-9/11 Afghanistan: A Critical Insight into Huntington’s Civilizational Approach (2017, E-International Relations). She is the editor of Sufism: A Theoretical Intervention in Global International Relations (2020, Rowman and Littlefield). Her writings have appeared in the European Journal of International Relations, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Global Intellectual History, and All Azimuth, among others.