Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Vergleichende Demokratieforschung und die Politischen Systeme Osteuropas

Kurzprofil

Ertuğ Tombuş ist Ko-Direktor des Center for Comparative Research on Democracy und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Sozialwissenschaften der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Von 2017 bis 2020 war er akademischer Koordinator des Programms Blickwechsel: Contemporary Turkey Studies an der HU Berlin. Bevor er an die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin kam, lehrte er an der Columbia University, der New School for Liberal Arts, dem Eugene Lang College, der Western Connecticut State University und der State University of New York. Seit 2009 ist er geschäftsführender Herausgeber von Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. Er war Gastwissenschaftler an der Northwestern University und der Yale University. Er verfügt über zwei Ph.D.-Abschlüsse, in Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie, sowie über einen M.Sc. und einen B.Sc. in Politikwissenschaft und einen M.Phil. in Soziologie. Seine zentralen Lehr- und Forschungsgebiete sind Demokratietheorie, Politik und Recht, Verfassungstheorie, vergleichender Konstitutionalismus, Populismus, Säkularismus und seine Kritiker, Rechtssoziologie, politische Soziologie, zeitgenössische Sozialtheorie und türkische Politik.

Publikationen

Herausgegebener Band

• Rethinking Democracy in Cities, co-edited with Gulcin Balamir Coskun, Tuba Inal Cekic, Routledge, 2024.

Begutachtete Zeitschriftenartikel

• “Introduction: Institute for Social Research at 100”, co-authored with Hubertus Buchstein, Peter Gordon, Axel Honneth, Constellations, 30:4, 2023
• “Halk ve halkın cisimleşmesi: Türkiye’de anayasaların otoriter temelleri” Toplum ve Bilim, 159:47-70, 2022 (in Turkish)
• “(Post-) Kemalist Secularism in Turkey” in Journal of Balkans and Near Eastern Studies, 19(1):70-85, 2017 (co-authored with Berfu Aygenc).
• “Reluctant Democratization: The Case of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey”, Constellations (20)2, 2013.
• “Learning from Success, Learning from Failure: South Africa, Hungary, Turkey (and Egypt)” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 39(4-5), 2013 (co-authored with Andrew Arato).
• “Demokratik Meşruiyet İlkesi Olarak Hukuk Devleti” (The Rule of Law as a Democratic Principle of legitimacy) DOĞU BATI, 21, 2002 (in Turkish).

Kapitel im Sammelband

• “Introduction: Democracy's Crisis and Its Urban Resurgence” Rethinking Democracy in Cities, eds. Balamir-Coskun, Inal-Cekic, Tombus, Routledge, 2024
• “The People and Its Embodiment: Authoritarian Foundations of Constitutions in Turkey” in Regressing Towards Constitutional Autocracy? The Failing of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey, eds. Felix Petersen and Zeynep Yanasmayan, Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Sonderthemen und Sektionen

• Co-editor, “(Im)Mobility in and out of Autocratizing States” Migration Studies, with Gulay Turkmen, Zeynep Yanasmayan (in-preparation)
• Co-editor, “Institute for Social Research at 100, edited with Hubertus Buchstein, Peter Gordon, Axel Honneth, Constellations, 30:4, 2023
• Editor, “Freedom of the Press in Turkey: Challenges and Implications” ResetDoc, July 2021, https://www.resetdoc.org/dossier/freedom-press-turkey-challenges-implications/
• Editor, “Walls of Resistance: The Power of Street Art” ResetDoc, February 2019,  https://www.resetdoc.org/dossier/walls-resistance-propaganda-power-street-art/
• Editor, “After the Elections, how Turkey is Heading towards an Authoritarian Regime” ResetDoc, October 2018 https://www.resetdoc.org/dossier/after-the-elections-how-turkey-is-heading-towards-an-authoritarian-regime/
• Editor, “Constitutional Law and State in Turkey: Institutions and Procedures” Research and Policy on Turkey, vol. 3, iss.1, 2018

Buchrezensionen

• “Iren Ozgur, Islamic Schools in Modern Turkey: Faith, Politics, and Education (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012),” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 46, 2014.

Online-Publikationen

• “The Rule of Arbitrariness as the New Constitutional Order in Turkey” VerfBlog, 2023/11/14, https://verfassungsblog.de/the-rule-of-arbitrariness-as-the-new-constitutional-order-in-turkey/, DOI: 10.59704/d41a7ae8ac03b28c. co-authored with Gulcin Balamir Coskun 
• “A Matter of Pragmatism rather than Principle: How to Restore Constitutional Democracy in Turkey”, VerfBlog, 2021/12/30, https://verfassungsblog.de/a-matter-of-pragmatism-rather-than-principle/, DOI: 10.17176/20211230-230403-0 . co-authored with Ece Göztepe and Silvia von Steinsdorff
• "Autocracy behind a democratic facade: the political regime in Turkey," CIVICUS, 03.10.2018.
• “The Fall of Turkish Democracy: Codifying Autocracy through Constitutional Amendments,” Public Seminar, March 3, 2017, http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/03/the-fall-of-turkish-democracy/#.WQTGP1LMwUE
• “The Tragedy of the 2015 Turkish Elections,” Public Seminar, November 10, 2015,http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/11/the-tragedy-of-the-2015-turkish-elections/#.Vq-tHcezubE 
• “Erdoğan’s Turkey: Beyond Legitimacy and Legality”, vol. III, issue 12, pp.40-52, Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (ResearchTurkey), London, ResearchTurkey, 2014 http://researchturkey.org/?p=7523
• “Gezi Resistance: Re-Claiming Democracy,” Public Seminar Review 1:1 Inaugural Edition (Fall 2013). http://www.publicseminar.org/2013/10/gezi-resistance-re-claiming-democracy/