About
Academic profile
Egehan H. Altınbay is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University, in Ankara. His research interests centre on the Syrian Civil War, Middle East politics and regional political dynamics, with particular attention to civil wars, non-state actors and diplomacy.
His academic background is in International Relations at Bilkent University. His research at METU has included work on post-Arab Spring Middle Eastern civil wars, drawing on open sources to examine internal and external developments in the Syrian conflict. The work involved gathering, categorising and organising material for conflict research.
Research context
Regions, actors & conflictCivil wars · Non-state actors · Diplomacy
Academic path
He completed a BA (2010) and an MA (2013) in International Relations at Bilkent University, where he also worked as a Research Assistant from 2010 to 2013.
In 2018, he was a PhD visiting participant in Sciences Po’s Department of Political Science. His fields there included media and politics, data gathering and analysis.
View academic recordResearch practice
His documented research practice combines open-source research with data gathering, categorisation and statistical analysis.
His dataset work on Syrian Civil War diplomacy has covered negotiation processes, including peace, ceasefire and de-escalation negotiations. This complements his wider work on civil wars and the activities of non-state actors.
Syrian Civil War research