Beste Isleyen is a postdoctoral researcher at ACCESS Europe and the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. She s working for the ACCESS EUROPE research theme ‘Europe and the World’ and a member of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) programme group ‘Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance’.

She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Tuebingen in 2014.  Her PhD research was funded by the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation. At the University of Tuebingen, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses on European Union foreign relations and peace and conflict studies.

At ACCESS Europe, she examines European Union policy towards the Southern Mediterranean in the aftermath of the recent protests and uprisings in the Arab world.  This project looks at the rationale, instruments and policy areas of which the EU promotes ongoing processes of political, social and economic transformation in the Arab world and strives to influence such practices through various partnership tools and bilateral agreements. The study brings together concepts, insights and methods from international relations, transnational governance, critical security studies and political sociology.

• No ancillary activities