Çağla Lüleci-Sula is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University College, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. She completed her Ph.D. in International Relations at Bilkent University (2021). During her doctoral studies, she spent a year as a Fulbright researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for International Studies (2018-2019). She also holds an Assistant Professorship in International Relations at TED University (on leave).

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Çağla Lüleci-Sula’s research interests lie at the intersection of politics and theories of security, Euro/Western-centrism in IR, and Turkish foreign policy. She has published on the links between security and foreign policy, border politics and security, and theories of IR, most of which in various ways engage with the Western-centric nature of world politics and International Relations as a discipline.

Her current research project contributes to the broader field of politics of security. It examines the agency of non-EU actors in shaping European security policies, focusing on how they co-constitute both security politics and the broader Eurocentric structures of world politics. Her research specifically explores the processes through which non-EU states become part of the EU’s migration governance and border externalization framework, while also engaging with the tensions between their foreign policy discourse and practices.