Onur Bakiner, PhD, MSc — Faculty ; Professor ; Department of Political Science - Honors , College of Arts & Sciences ; Areas of Expertise: Human Rights | Transitional Justice | World Politics .

Book

• 2026  Governing AI: A Primer (Cambridge University Press)
• 2015  Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy (University of Pennsylvania Press)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• 2025 “The Strength Even to Comprehend the Incomprehensible’: Rereading Adorno in the Age of Authoritarian Resurgence,” International Journal of Transitional Justice 19(1): 20-35
• 2025 “Anti-Immigrant Attitudes: The Role of Casual Intergroup Contact in Perceived Group Threat,” Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 23(2): 238-253 (co-authored with Şule Yaylacı)
• 2023 “The promises and challenges of addressing Artificial Intelligence with human rights,” Big Data & Society 10(2)
• 2023 “Pluralistic Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Law: The Case of the European Union’s AI Regulation,” Law, Innovation and Technology 15(2) (558-582)
• 2023 “Only Game in Town? The Persistence of Competitive Authoritarian Regimes in Modern Turkey,” Turkish Studies 24(5): 853-881
• 2022 “What do Academics Say about Artificial Intelligence Ethics? An Overview of the Scholarship,” AI and Ethics 3(2): 513-525
• 2021 “Truth Commission Impact on Policy, Courts, and Society,” Annual Review of Law & Social Science 17: 73-91
• 2020 “Endogenous Sources of Judicial Power: Parapolitics and the Supreme Court of Colombia,” Comparative Politics 52(4): 603-624
• 2019 “Why do Peace Negotiations Succeed or Fail? Legal Commitment, Transparency and Inclusion during Peace Negotiations in Colombia (2012-2016) and Turkey (2012- 2015),” Negotiation Journal 35(4): 471-513
• 2019 “Casualties and Support for Violent Conflict in Civil Wars,” Civil Wars 20(4): 555-586 (co-authored with Şule Yaylacı)
• 2018 “A Key to Turkish Politics? The Center-Periphery Framework Revisited,” Turkish Studies 19(4): 503-522
• 2016 “Judges Discover Politics: Sources of Judges’ Off-bench Mobilization in Turkey,” Journal of Law and Courts 4(1): 131-157
• 2015 “One Truth Among Others? Truth Commissions’ Struggle for Truth and Memory,” Memory Studies 8(3): 345-360
• 2014 “Truth Commission Impact: an Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society,” International Journal of Transitional Justice 8(1): 6-30
• 2013 “Is Turkey Coming to Terms with its Past? Politics of Memory and Majoritarian Conservatism,” Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity 41(5): 691-708
• 2010 “From Denial to Reluctant Dialogue: the Chilean Military’s Confrontation with Human Rights (1990-2006),” International Journal of Transitional Justice 4(1): 47-66

Book Chapters

• 2024 “Riding a Bicycle is Frivolous Behavior’: Sources of Judicial Deference in Turkey,” in Research Handbook on Judicial Politics, Michael Fix and Matthew Montgomery (eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing)
• 2022 “Conclusion,” in Beyond Words: Latin American Truth Commission Recommendations, Vol. II, Elin Skaar, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, and Jemima García-Godos (eds.) (Intersentia)
• 2020 “Truth, Justice, and Commemoration Initiatives in Turkey,” in The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics, Güneş Murat Tezcür (ed.) (Oxford Handbooks Online)
• 2019 “The Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation, and Non-Repetition: Precedents and Prospects,” in As War Ends: What Colombia Can Tell Us About the Sustainability of Peace and Transitional Justice, James Meernik, Jacqueline H.R. DeMeritt, and Mauricio Uribe-López (eds.) (Cambridge University Press)
• 2019 “‘These are Ordinary Things’: Regulation of Death under the AKP Regime,” in Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence and Resistance, Banu Bargu (ed.) (Edinburgh University Press)
• 2018 “Truths of the Dictatorship: Chile’s Rettig and Valech Commissions as State-Sponsored History,” in The Palgrave Handbook of State-sponsored History after 1945, Berber Bevernage and Nico Wouters (eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan)
• 2018 “Between Politics and History: the Baltic Truth Commissions in Global Perspective,” in Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union: Reviewing the Past and Looking Toward the Future, Cynthia M. Horne and Lavinia Stan (eds.), (Cambridge University Press)
• 2017 “How Did We Get Here? Turkey’s Slow Shift to Authoritarianism” in Authoritarian Politics in Turkey: Elections, Resistance and the AKP, Bahar Başer and Erdi Öztürk (eds.) (IB Tauris)
• 2015 “Promoting Historical Justice through Truth Commissions: An Uneasy Relationship,” in Historical Justice and Memory, Janna Thompson and Klaus Neumann (eds.), (University of Wisconsin Press)
• 2014 “Can the 'Spirit Of Gezi' Transform Progressive Politics in Turkey?” in The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey, Umut Ozkirimli (ed.), (Palgrave Pivot)
• 2014 “Postneoliberal Regional Integration in Latin America: Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA),” (co-authored with Efe Can Gürcan) in Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment, David Kreps (ed.), (Ashgate Publishing)