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Ziya Öniş
Ziya Öniş in his office at Koç University
Born (1957-05-12) 12 May 1957 (age 67)
NationalityTurkish
Spouse(s)Güneş Öniş Çapa, Gökhan Bakî Öniş
Academic career
FieldPolitical economist, European Politics, Turkish Politics and Turkish Foreign Policy
InstitutionKoç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
AwardsKoç University Outstanding Teaching Award

Elizabeth Meehan Prize for the Best Article Published in "Government and Opposition"

Koç University Outstanding Faculty Award

TUBITAK Science Award in Social Sciences
File:Ziya Onis (2).jpg
Ziya Öniş; In Antalya, Turkey

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Ziya Öniş (born May 12, 1957[2] in Istanbul) is a Turkish political economist, and professor of international relations and the former director of the Center for Research on Globalization and Democratic Governance (GLODEM) at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey.[3]


He received his BA and MA degrees from London School of Economics, Department of Economics. He received his PhD from University of Manchester on development economics in 1984. During his education, he got economics education, but he also studied politics in his academic career. As a political economist he has more than 13000+ citations in Google Scholar. He authored and co-authored more than 200 hundred academic studies. [4] Especially, his "The logic of the developmental state" article is one of the most known academic articles of his. Moreover, during his career he worked with important names, like Şuhnaz Yılmaz, Fikret Şenses, Fuat Keyman, Selim Erdem Aytaç, James Riedel. After 2020, he wrote different articles with his former PhD student Mustafa Kutlay.[5]


He regularly criticizes the government of Turkey and some of his articles examine and criticize the presidential system of Turkey. Overall, he is one of the most popular political economists in Turkey and the world. According to Koç University's lecturer evaluation survey, he is one of the most favorable professors in the university. [6]

Life

Ziya Onis is grandchild of Yusuf Ziya Onis who was one the people who created the Turkish Football Federation and he became first president of the federation and one of the first world war veterans. Thanks to his family, he grew up in a wealthy neighborhood which is Sarıyer (İstanbul). After 13 years old, he went to the UK. He got an education in the UK and then he came back to Turkey. He has two children who are Gökhan Bakî Öniş and Güneş Öniş Çapa. Also he has grandchildren. In his private life, he loves football and regularly he went to watch a game. Also, Ziya Oniş is a nature lover and he also shows this attitude in his works. [7]

Career

He worked with Colin Kirkpatrick and Frederick Nixson at Manchester. Öniş took active part in different OECD and World Bank projects as consultant and prepared reports and working papers.[1] He is one of the most cited social scientists in Turkey and a worldwide known Turkish political economist. Öniş has been cited in the Social Sciences Citation Index about 500 times as of September 2010. Prof. Oniş is a member of The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). Due to his significant contributions to Turkish political economy, Turkish foreign policy and Turkish politics fields in a comparative perspective, he received TUBITAK Science Award in Social Sciences in July 2012, which is known as the most prestigious scientific award in Turkey.[8]

He was awarded the British S.S.R.C. Research Studentship in Development Economics held at the University of Manchester, England during 1980-1983. After he worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Manchester, he worked at Boğaziçi University in Turkey as an assistant professor between 1984-1988. In 1987, he became consultant to the World Bank in conjunction with the Project, “Macroeconomic Policies Crises, and Growth in the Long-Run”, directed by Richard Cooper, Max Corden, and Ian Little. When he held this position, he also worked as consultant to OECD Development Centre. Between 1989 and 1990 he studied in Princeton as a Fulbright fellow. When he was still an assistant professor in Boğaziçi University he became editor of Boğaziçi Journal, Review of Social Economic and Administrative Studies and after 1995 he became a research fellow in the Economic Research Forum for Turkey, Iran and the Arab Countries. In 1999 he was a Lecturer in the Training Program organized by the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank. Then, he became a Koç University member and during 2001-2002 he was Acting Dean of the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics. During his Koç career, he got many different roles as Director of Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities. In 2015 he became Visiting Professor in the Stanford Program in Istanbul. He is still a professor of International Relations at Koç University. [1]

Selected bibliography

Full list of publications.[9]

Books

  • Öniş, Ziya; Rubin, Barry (2003). The Turkish economy in crisis. London Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass. ISBN 9780714683973.
  • Öniş, Ziya; Keyman, E. Fuat (2007). Turkish politics in a changing world: global dynamics and domestic transformations. Şişli, İstanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press. ISBN 9786053990055.
  • Öniş, Ziya; Şenses, Fikret (2009). Turkey and the global economy: neo-liberal restructuring and integration in the post-crisis era. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415475617.

Selected Journal articles

He has been write more than 250 academic articles. Some of them are:

  • Öniş, Ziya. "The logic of the developmental state." Comparative Politics , Oct., 1991, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Oct., 1991), pp. 109-126
  • Öniş, Ziya, and Fikret Şenses. "Rethinking the emerging post‐Washington consensus." Development and change 36.2 (2005): 263-290.
  • Öniş, Ziya, and Şuhnaz Yilmaz. "Between Europeanization and Euro‐asianism: Foreign policy activism in Turkey during the AKP era." Turkish Studies 10.1 (2009): 7-24.
  • Onis, Ziya. "The political economy of Islamic resurgence in Turkey: The rise of the Welfare Party in perspective." Third World Quarterly 18.4 (1997): 743-766.
  • Öniş, Ziya. "Turgut Özal and his economic legacy: Turkish neo-liberalism in critical perspective." Middle Eastern Studies 40.4 (2004): 113-134.
  • Öniş, Ziya. "Multiple Faces of the “New” Turkish Foreign Policy: Underlying Dynamics and." Insight Turkey 13.1 (2011): 47-65.
  • Öniş, Ziya. "Domestic politics, international norms and challenges to the state: Turkey-EU relations in the post-Helsinki Era." Turkish studies 4.1 (2003): 9-34.
  • Öniş, Ziya. "The triumph of conservative globalism: The political economy of the AKP era." Turkish Studies 13.2 (2012): 135-152.
  • Onis, Ziya, and M. Hakan Yavuz. "The Emergence of a New Turkey: Democracy and the AK Parti." (2006): 207.
  • ,Öniş, Ziya (2011). "Power, interests and coalitions: the political economy of mass privatisation in Turkey". Third World Quarterly. 32 (4): 707–724. doi:10.1080/01436597.2011.567004. S2CID 154318257.
  • Öniş, Ziya (2010). "Contesting for Turkey's political 'centre': domestic politics, identity conflicts and the controversy over EU membership". Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 18 (3): 361–376. doi:10.1080/14782804.2010.507919. S2CID 154370650.
  • Öniş, Ziya; Bakir, Caner (January 2010). "The regulatory state and Turkish banking reforms in the age of post-Washington consensus". Development and Change. 41 (1): 77–106. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.2009.01634.x.


Some of his recent works include:

  • Kutlay, Mustafa, and Ziya Öniş. "Liberal democracy on the edge? Anxieties in a shifting global (dis) order." Alternatives 48.1 (2023): 20-37.
  • Öniş, Ziya. "Türkiye’nin Yeni Cumhurbaşkanlığı Rejimi: Kırılganlık, Direnç, Tersine Dönebilirlik." REFLEKTİF Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 4.1 (2023): 159-179.
  • Öniş, Ziya. "Historic missed opportunities and prospects for renewal: Turkey-EU relations in a post-Western order." Turkish Studies (2023): 1-23.
  • Kutlay, Mustafa, and Ziya Öniş. "Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism." Third World Quarterly 42.12 (2021): 3051-3069.

References

  1. ^ a b c Detailed Curriculum Vitae, http://home.ku.edu.tr/~zonis/bio_eng.htm
  2. ^ "Öniş, Ziya". Library of Congress. Retrieved 8 August 2014. CIP data sheet (Ziya Oniş; b. May 12, 1957)
  3. ^ Koc University, Department of International Relations Archived December 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "ZİYA ÖNİŞ". home.ku.edu.tr. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  5. ^ "Ziya Öniş". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  6. ^ "Course Evaluation Results". VPAA (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  7. ^ https://www.rebooksandarts.com/uploads/inceleme/yusufziyaonis1.pdf
  8. ^ The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, "TÜBİTAK - Akademisyen - Ödüller - TÜBİTAK Bilim, Özel ve Teşvik Ödülleri Açıklandı". Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
  9. ^ For entire publication list, see, http://home.ku.edu.tr/~zonis/index.htm
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