Efe Can Gürcan is Associate Dean of Research and Development for the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences at İstinye University. He is also Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and a faculty member in the Department of International Relations, İstinye University. He serves as Director of the Center for Belt and Road Studies at Istinye University and Research Associate at the University of Manitoba’s Geopolitical Economy Research Group. Gürcan completed his undergraduate education in International Relations at Koç University. He received his master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Montréal and earned his PhD in Sociology from Simon Fraser University. He speaks English, French, Spanish and Turkish. His publications include three books as well as more than 30 articles and book chapters on international development, international conflict and international institutions, with a geographical focus on Latin America and the Middle East. His latest book is Multipolarization, South-South Cooperation and the Rise of Post-Hegemonic Governance.
Araştırma Alanları
- International Development
- Area Studies
- International Politics
- International Cooperation and Conflict
Çalışma Alanları
- Sosyal, Beşeri ve İdari Bilimler Temel Alanı
- Uluslararası İlişkiler
- Bölgesel Çalışmalar
- Uluslararası Siyaset
- Küreselleşme
- Deciphering the Chinese Economic Miracle: Lessons for the Developing World, 2022
- Dünya Sistemleri Analizi Üzerinden Küresel Mülteci Krizini Anlamlandırmak: Suriye ve Afganistan Örnekleri, 2021
- The Formation and Development of the Black Lives Matter Movement: A Political Process Perspective, 2021
- Book review: Atul Kohli, Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery, 2021
- The policy orientation of Turkey’s current climate change strategy, 2021
- On the development of China’s environmental policies towards an ecological civilization, 2021
- Türkiye ve Çin’in Değişen Deniz Jeopolitiğinin Neo-Mahancı Bir Okuması, 2021
- The Changing Geopolitical Economy of Transcaucasia under Multipolarity, 2020
- The Construction of “Post-Hegemonic Multipolarity” in Eurasia: A Comparative Perspective, 2020
- Arap Baharı Sonrası Uluslararası Güvenlik: Suriye ve Libya Çatışmalarının Yurtiçi ve Uluslararası Kaynakları (2011-2020), 2020
- Max Weber ve Antonio Gramsci’nin Karşılaştırmalı Okuması: Klasik Sosyoloji Geleneğinin Sürekliliğini Siyasal Ön Yargıların Ötesinde Anlamlandırmak, 2020
- Tarihsel Perspektiften COVID-19: Felaket Kapitalizmi Korku Güdümlü Bir Dünya Düzenini Nasıl Üretir?, 2020
- Emerging Forms of Social-Union Organizing Under the New Conditions of Turkish Capitalism: A Class-Capacity Analysis, 2020
- Avrupa Bölgeciliğinin Krizinin Sosyo-Ekonomik ve Jeopolitik Boyutları, 2019
- Extractivism, Neoliberalism, and the Environment: Revisiting the Syrian Conflict from an Ecological Justice Perspective, 2019
- Review of ’The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change Development and Resistance Dynamics’, 2019
- Political geography of Turkey’s intervention in Syria: underlying causes and consequences (2011-2016), 2019
- Post-Hegemonyacı Dünya Düzeni Altında Çin’in Avrasya Bölgeciliği, 2019
- Bir ’Siyasal Süreç’ Olarak Fransız Sarı Yelekliler Hareketi’nin Ortaya Çıkışı, 2019
- Küresel Kapitalizmin Krizi, Sınıflar ve ’Yeni’ Toplumsal Hareketler, 2019
- Amerika Sonrası Dönemde Adil Bir Dünya Düzeni İnşa Etmek, 2019
- BRICS Ülkelerinin Afrika’daki Yükselişine Jeopolitik Ekonomi Penceresinden Bir Bakış, 2019
- The combined and uneven development of working-class capacities in Turkey, 1960–2016, 2019
- Theorizing Food Sovereignty from a Class-Analytical Lens: The Case of Agrarian Mobilization in Argentina, 2018
- Food security, obesity, and inequality: Measuring the risk of exposure to the neoliberal diet, 2018
- The essential guide to critical development studies, 2018
- The Arab Spring and the Syrian refugee crisis, 2016
- A class analytic approach to the Gezi Park events: Challenging the ‘middle class’ myth, 2015
- Capitalist Class Formation and US Imperialism, 2015
- The Nonprofit-Corporate Complex: An Integral Component and Driving Force of Imperialism in the Phase of Monopoly-Finance Capitalism, 2015
- Food Security and Inequality: Measuring the Risk of Exposure to the Neoliberal Diet, 2015
- The neoliberal diet and inequality in the United States, 2015
- Turkey’ Gezi Park Demonstrations of 2013: A Marxian Analysis of the Political Moment, 2014
- Cuban agriculture and food sovereignty: beyond civil-society-centric and globalist paradigms, 2014
- NATO’s “Globalized” Atlanticism and the Eurasian Alternative, 2013
- Hugo Chávez’s unwritten testament: national-democratic struggle and contradictions of socialism, 2013
- The Political Economy of ”Food Security” and Trade: Uneven and Combined Dependency, 2013
- Food crisis and beyond: locating food-sovereign alternatives in a post-neoliberal context, 2011
- New regionalisms and radical identity formation in Latin America: Towards an ”alter-global” paradigm, 2010
- A Eurasian Perspective into Turkey’s Non-Traditional Security: Issues, Challenges, and Framework for Cooperation,
- The Transformation of the Turkish Economy in the 2000s: a Balance Sheet of Neoliberalism,
- ABD-Çin Rekabetini Yırtıcılık Teorisi Penceresinden Anlamlandırmak, 2021
- Peasant Movements and the Latin American Left in the 2000s: Beyond the Autonomy-Cooptation Dichotomy, 2021
- Hindistan ile Pakistan’da yükselen popülizmin ikili ilişkilere etkisi ve Keşmir sorunu, 2020
- Yeni Popülizm Dalgası Etkisinde Asya'da Uluslararası Güvenliğin İnşası: Filipinler, Hindistan ve Endonezya’nın Dış Siyasetini Birlikte Okumak, 2020
- The Post-Neoliberal Turn in Latin America: Moving away from Populism and Development Discourses,
- Kapitalizmin Krizi Altında Küresel Protesto Hareketleri ve Toplumsal Sınıfların Güncelliği, 2019
- The Geopolitical Economy of Sino-African Relations in the 2000s,
- Social Movements and the State: Latin American Development in the Post-Neoliberal Era,
- Social Movements and the State: Latin American Development in the Post Neoliberal Era,
- Was There a Left Turn in Latin America? Measuring Government Leftism Immersion, 2016
- Food Sovereignty and Pedagogical Mobilization in the Argentine Countryside, 2016
- Participatory-Democratic Leadership and Movement Strength,
- Building Popular-Democratic Alternatives in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Postneoliberal Movements in Venezuela and Argentina, 2012
- Social Myths and Agrarian Mobilization in Santiago del Estero, Argentina: Reclaiming Indigeneity Beyond Mestizaje,
- Geopolitical Economy of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism in Latin America and Eurasia,
- Post-Hegemonyacı Dünya Düzeni Altında Çin’in Avrasya Bölgeselciliğindeki Yeri,
- France’s Yellow Vest Uprising as a “Political Process”,
- Social Classes and ”New” Social Movements Under the Crisis of Global Capitalism,
- A Geopolitical-Economic Perspective into the BRICS’s Rise in Africa,
- Political Economy of Food Security: Beyond Neoliberal Globalism and the Loss of Sovereignty, 2012
- Classical Sociology and the Arab Spring: When Does Nonviolence Work?, 2012
- Building Counter-Hegemonic Power in Latin America: A Neo-Gramscian Perspective on Movements, 2011
- The Political Sociology of Workers’ Self-Management at Kazova, Turkey: From Unity to Fragmentation, 2019
- A Class-Capacity Analysis of Social-Unionism in Turkey, 2019
- Neoregulation and Agrarian Class Structures: The Case of Argentina’s “Soyization” from a Food Regime Perspective, 2015
- Critical Modernism, Social Movements and Political-Cultural Formation Theory: Towards a Radical-Democratic Development Project?, 2012
- Political Geography of Turkey’s Intervention in Syria: Underlying Causes and Implications,
- Classical Sociology and Emancipatory Social Science: Class, Culture and Leadership in Social Empowerment,
- The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, ISBN: 978-3-030-29900-2, 2021
- The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism, ISBN: 9780197527085, 2022
- Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey’s Gezi Park: From Private Discontent to Collective Action, ISBN: 978-1-137-46902-1, 2015
- The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, ISBN: 978-0-230-39278-6, 2015
- Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment, ISBN: 978-1-4094-6086-2, 2015
- Routledge Handbook of Poverty and the United States, ISBN: 978-1138298743, 2015
- Cuba in a Global Context: International Relations, Internationalism and Transnationalism, ISBN: 978-0813062174, 2014
- Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Contemporary Perspectives, ISBN: 1-4438-2409-7, 2010
- The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East: Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances, ISBN: 978-3-030-45464-7, 2020
- Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America, ISBN: 9781003091516, 2020
- Dragon Games: Historical and Contemporary Figurations in European-Chinese Relations, ISBN: 978-3-95650-884-4, 2022
- COVID-19 and the Future of Capitalism: Postcapitalist Horizons Beyond Neoliberalism, ISBN: 9781773632575, 2021
- Göç ve Etkileri: Güvenlik, Toplum, Kadın, Çocuk, Ekonomi, Dış Politika, ISBN: 978-625-7676-43-4, 2021
- Imperialism after the Neoliberal Turn, ISBN: 9780367263515, 2022
- Dünya Siyasetinde Latin Amerika 4, ISBN: 9786254173110, 2021
- Kitap: Dünya Siyasetinde Latin Amerika 3, ISBN: 978-625-406-924-6, 2020
- Class History and Class Practices in the Periphery of Capitalism, ISBN: 9781789735925, 2019
- Neoliberalism and the Changing Face of Unionism: The Combined and Uneven Development of Class Capacities in Turkey, ISBN: 978-3-319-48284-2, 2017
- Multipolarization, South-South Cooperation and the Rise of Post-Hegemonic Governance., ISBN: 9781138600232, 2019
- Emerald Literati Awards, Highly Commended Paper, 2021
- Albert Szymanski-T.R. Young/Critical Sociology Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award, 2014
- TÜBA-Üstün Başarılı Genç Bilim İnsanı Ödülleri (GEBİP), 2021