Yasemin Altintop
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- Yasemin Altintop
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Research Associate
at the Department of Political Science
- Address
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Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
Department of Political Science
Karl-Gloeckner-Straße 21E
35394 Giessen
- Office Hours
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By appointment
- Competent Secretariat
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Philosophikum II Room E201
☎ +49 641 99 23110
Fax +49 641 99 23119
CV
- CV
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Short CV
Since 04/2023
Department of Political Science, Giessen University
Research Associate at the Chair for International Relations;
Pro-LOEWE funded project on Minority Studies: Language and Identity. Contribution to the topic from a political science perspective with a focus on international institutions. Title of dissertation project: (Non)Managing Ethnic Conflicts: The United Nations and Türkiye’s Kurds.07/2020 -09/2021
iibsa - Research & Education on Antisemitism (Berlin)
External Contractor
05-09/2018
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) (Herzliya, Israel)
Coordinator at the 18th World Summit on Counter-Terrorism; organization of the panel “Counter-Terrorism & Emerging Technologies: AI, Crypto & Big Data.”
11/2017-03/2018
Intern at the ICT03-10/2017
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)
Student Assistant in the project network “Propaganda, Mobilization and Radicalization in the virtual and real World. Causes, Processes and Counter-Strategies in the Context of the Asylum and Refugee Debate” (PANDORA)
10/2015-07/2018
Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany)
Tutor at the Chair for Sociology with a focus on Quantitative Analysis of Societal Change
11/2014-04/2015
Special Assessment for Court trials
Researcher and Author
Upon request by the Attorney General of the German Federal Supreme Court; Assessments on the Islamic State in Syria and IraqFollow-up tasks in 2016 and 2021 for Higher Regional Courts
10-12/2013
CONIAS Risk Intelligence (Wiesloch, Germany)
Conflict Data Analyst, short-time projectLeadership and Service
Department of Political Science, Giessen University
Since 10/2023
Elected Spokesperson for the non-tenured facultySince 07/2023
Deputy Member of the departmental Council for the Group of non-tenured faculty01-07/2023
Member of the Selection Committee for the mid-level faculty funding poolHeidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research
01/2011-12/2018
Conflict Analyst between 2011 and 2018, Member of Board of Directors, chairing the Communications Department between 2012 and 2013, Regional Group Leader for the Conflicts in West Asia between 2012 and 2016
Teaching
- Teaching
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Summer 2023: Turkish Foreign Policy with a focus on militarized conflicts and ideology
Winter 2023/24: United Nations Conflict Management Strategies
Summer 2024: Autocratic Regimes as a challenge for the liberal peace paradigm of the United Nations
Winter 2024/25: Introduction into the theories of International Relations
Publications
- Publications
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Short selection
- 2018 „Turkey (Islamic State)” in: Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (ed.) Conflict Barometer 2011 (Heidelberg: ISSN 1616-931X), p. 182.
- 2015 Kirchner, Magdalena, Christoph Trinn, Thomas Wencker, Tobias Selge, Yasemin Altintop, Tanja Eschenauer, and Lucas Marlow. 2015. Special Assessment - The Islamic State in Syria and Iraq II - Analysis of one-sided violence against civilians, upon request by the attorney general of the German Federal Supreme Court. Not open to the public.
- 2015 Altintop, Yasemin, Tanja Eschenauer, Magdalena Kirchner, Christoph Trinn. and Thomas Wencker. 2015. Special Assessment - The Islamic State in Syria and Iraq I – Conflict Analysis, upon request by the attorney general of the German Federal Supreme Court. Not open to the public.
- 2015 „Syria (Islamic State)” in: Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (ed.) Conflict Barometer 2011 (Heidelberg: ISSN 1616-931X), p. 181-182.
- 2014 „Syria (inter-opposition violence)” in: Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (ed.) Conflict Barometer 2011 (Heidelberg: ISSN 1616-931X), p. 166-167.
- 2012 „Lebanon (March 14 Alliance – March 8 Alliance)” in: Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (ed.) Conflict Barometer 2011 (Heidelberg: ISSN 1616-931X), p. 110.
- 2011 „Libya (opposition)” in: Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (ed.) Conflict Barometer 2011 (Heidelberg: ISSN 1616-931X), p. 100-101.
Research
- Research
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PhD projekt
(Non)Managing Ethnic Conflicts: The United Nations and Türkiye’s KurdsTürkiye is a founding member of the UN and has signed and ratified almost all international human rights treaties. The empirical literature on the UN’s involvement in conflicts concerning the Kurdish minority and the Turkish government is scarce to non-existent. This is remarkable given Türkiye’s sharp illiberal turn, the volatile geographical region and the intractable conflict history. Existing studies on determinants of UN involvement in conflicts have focused on peacekeeping and mediation, overseeing the wider array of conflict management tools. While recent studies tackle this research gap, the case of the Kurds is not in any of these datasets. Importantly, the UN system is complex and there do exist means beyond mandated UN missions to address conflicts. I aim to contribute to this research area by conducting a Grounded Theory analysis and reconstructively assessing how the UN has addressed the Kurdish conflict in Türkiye between 2002 and 2018. Central foci are determinants that have led to certain UN strategies over time and the interaction between UN officials and Turkish representatives amidst regime change in Türkiye.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Helmut Breitmeier
since 2022