Assoc. Prof. Emre Demir

Emre Demir attended the American Collegiate Institute for his high school education. He graduated from Ankara University with a BS in Economics in 2007 and an MA in International Relations in 2010. In 2014, he obtained a second MA in International Politics and East Asia from the University of Warwick. In 2019, he obtained a PhD in International Relations from Middle East Technical University.

Between December 2009 and February 2012, he worked as a researcher in the Governance Studies Department at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV). In February 2012, he joined the Department of Political Science and International Relations at TED University as a research assistant. As part of his PhD studies, Emre Demir worked as a visiting researcher at Peking University's World History Department in the 2017–18 academic year. Finally, he conducted his postdoctoral research in the History Department at New York University with a Fulbright postdoctoral research scholarship in the 2023–24 academic year.

He has been an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at TED University since December 2019.

Emre Demir is the author of Contemporary China in Anglo-American and Chinese Perspectives: Making Sense of a China (Routledge, 2022). His research interests are theories of hegemony, the political economy of knowledge production, intellectual history, Chinese intellectuals and intellectual knowledge production, Eurocentrism, East Asian politics, Chinese politics and Chinese foreign policy.