Kıvanç Ulusoy is currently an associate professor of political science at Istanbul University. He was previously a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence, and a fellow at the Madrid Diplomatic School. His areas of research include regime change and democratization, Turkish politics, Turkey-European Union relations, and Spanish politics. Dr. Ulusoy has conducted studies at the Departments of Political Science and International Relations in various universities such as the Middle East Technical University, Bogazici University and Sabanci University in Turkey; Granada University in Spain; Stockholm University in Sweden; and Tsukuba University in Japan.

Some of his recent publications include “Saving the State Again: Turks Face the Challenge of European Governance,” SIGMA Papers, (Paris: OECD, 2005); “Turkey’s Reform Reconsidered, 1987-2004,” Democratization, June 2007; “The Europeanization of Turkey and Its Impact on the Cyprus issue,”Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, December 2008; "The Changing Challenge of Europeanization to Politics and Governance in Turkey," International Political Science Review, Vol. 30, No. 3, (November 2009); “The European Impact on State-Religion Relations in Turkey: Political Islam, Alevis and Non-Muslim Minorities”, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 46, No. 3, (2011).