Merve Özten Yıldız is a researcher specializing in Indian foreign policy, the Indo-Pacific strategy, critical geopolitics, and discourse analysis. She completed her master’s thesis on Turkey’s evolving border discourse along the Syrian frontier (2009–2019) and is currently preparing an expanded academic article on this topic. Her doctoral research examines India’s Indo-Pacific strategy within the broader geopolitical competition among China, the United States, and Russia, combining qualitative methods with critical theoretical approaches. She has academic experience in international relations, public policy, and foreign policy analysis, and conducts scholarly work in Turkish, English.

He completed his undergraduate and graduate education in Political Science and Public Administration and Political Science at Hacettepe University. He completed his master's degree with a thesis titled “Metabolism in Capitalism: Metabolic Rift Debates.” He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in the Political Science program at Hacettepe University.

Merve Özten Yıldız is a researcher specializing in Indian foreign policy, the Indo-Pacific strategy, critical geopolitics, and discourse analysis. She completed her master’s thesis on Turkey’s evolving border discourse along the Syrian frontier (2009–2019) and is currently preparing an expanded academic article on this topic. Her doctoral research examines India’s Indo-Pacific strategy within the broader geopolitical competition among China, the United States, and Russia, combining qualitative methods with critical theoretical approaches. She has academic experience in international relations, public policy, and foreign policy analysis, and conducts scholarly work in Turkish, English.