Ekrem T. Başer

Ekrem T. Başer

Assistant Professor

Bilkent University

I am an Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Department of International Relations.

My research intersects international relations and political economy, with a theoretical focus on self-enforcing solutions to commitment and information problems. More specifically, my theoretical focus includes reputation and signaling dynamics, status concerns, and the emergence of institutions with enforcement power. Substantively, I work on these themes in conflict settings, such as deterrence and crisis escalation, and IPE settings, such as foreign direct investment. I also work on these themes in domestic contexts, such as institutional formation, and domestic implications of international status concerns.

I work with formal models, tools of design-based inference on both observational and experimental data, and computational methods.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research

Publications

Working Papers

Work in Progress

  • “Conflict, Social Order, and Mutual Dependence in Production” with Tanguy Le Fur.
  • “International Status and Domestic Support for Women’s Political Representation” with Çağlayan Başer.
  • “Fighting, Bargaining, and Commitment Problems.”
  • “Uncertainty and War? It is Commitment All the Way Down.”
  • “Strategic Frameworks for Women’s Rights: Evidence from Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey” with Çağlayan Başer and Yusuf Magiya.

CV

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