M. Tahir Kılavuz ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT MARMARA UNIVERSITY

M. Tahir Kilavuz is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Marmara University. His research interests include authoritarianism, regime change, religion and politics, coup d’état, and survey analysis, both in the MENA and cross-regional settings. More specifically, he examines the durability of authoritarian regimes and transitions to other types of dictatorship and democracy, emphasising how institutions shape and constrain the behaviour of political regimes and the masses. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2019 and MA from Koç University. He also served as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative at Harvard University.