Ziya Onis

Who is Ziya Onis?

Ziya Önis is a Turkish political economist, and Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Center for Research on Globalization and Democratic Governance at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey.

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. He worked with Professor Colin Kirkpatrick and Professor Frederick Nixson at Manchester. Önis took active part in different OECD and World Bank projects as consultant and prepared reports and working papers. He is one of the most cited social scientists in Turkey and a world-wide known Turkish political economist. Önis has been cited in the Social Science Citation Index about 500 times as of September 2010. Prof. Onis is a member of The Turkish Academy of Sciences. 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.

His recent articles include “Power, Interests and Coalitions: The Political Economy of Mass Privatization in Turkey”. Third World Quarterly, Vol. 32, No.4; “Contesting for Turkey’s Political ‘Center’: Domestic Politics, Identity Conflicts and the Controversy over EU Membership”. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Vol. 18, No. 3; “The Regulatory State and Turkish Banking Reforms in the Age of Post-Washington Consensus”. Development and Change, Vol. 41, No.1.