Ziya Öniş

Ziya Öniş (born May 12, 1957 in Istanbul) is a Turkish political economist, and professor of international relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is a former Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University.

He received his BSc and MSc degrees in economics from London School of Economics. He obtained his PhD from University of Manchester in the field of development economics in 1984. His research lies at the intersection of political science and economics. He has published extensively on the political economy of Turkey, Turkish foreign policy and broader issues in global political economy. He has published extensively in leading journals of political science, international relations, and development studies. His work has been widely recognized and cited. His most popular publication, 'The Logic of the Developmental State,' continues to be highly regarded. He has collaborated extensively with important scholars in his field including Fikret Şenses, Fuat Keyman, Şuhnaz Yılmaz, Selim Erdem Aytaç, James Riedel among others. His collaboration with Mustafa Kutlay over the past decade has been particularly productive resulting in a large number of influential articles.

Life
Ziya Öniş is the grandson of Yusuf Ziya Onis who was the founding president of the Turkish Football Association and also served as the chairman of the leading Turkish soccer team Galatasaray on two consecutive occasions. He received a significant part of his education in the United Kingdom. He is married with two children and four grandchildren. In addition to his academic pursuits, Öniş is a football fan and a nature lover. In recent years, he has developed a growing concern for environmental issues.

Career
During his graduate studies at the University of Manchester, Öniş worked under the supervision of Colin Kirkpatrick and Frederick Nixson. In the early stages of his career in the Economics Department at Boğaziçi University, he actively participated as a consultant in several projects conducted by the OECD and the World Bank, in addition to his academic publications. Ziya Öniş became a full professor at a relatively early age in 1995. In September 1999, he joined the International Relations Department of Koç University and has been a faculty member there ever since. He is also a member of The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). n recognition of his significant contributions to Turkish political economy, Turkish foreign policy, and Turkish politics from a comparative perspective, Öniş received the TUBITAK Science Award in Social Sciences in July 2012. This award is widely regarded as the most prestigious scientific honor in Turkey.

During his tenure at Koç University, Öniş held several administrative positions including Acting Dean of the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics (2001-2002), Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2006-2009), and Director of the Center for Globalization, Peace, and Democratic Governance (GLODEM) (2010-2013).

Selected bibliography
List of selected publications.

Selected Journal articles
A select group of his best-known articles include
 * Öniş, Ziya. "The logic of the developmental state." Comparative Politics, Oct., 1991, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Oct., 1991), pp. 109–126
 * Öniş, Ziya, and Fikret Şenses. "Rethinking the emerging post‐Washington consensus." Development and change 36.2 (2005): 263–290.
 * Öniş, Ziya, and Şuhnaz Yilmaz. "Between Europeanization and Euro‐asianism: Foreign policy activism in Turkey during the AKP era." Turkish Studies 10.1 (2009): 7-24.
 * Onis, Ziya. "The political economy of Islamic resurgence in Turkey: The rise of the Welfare Party in perspective." Third World Quarterly 18.4 (1997): 743–766.
 * Öniş, Ziya. "Turgut Özal and his economic legacy: Turkish neo-liberalism in critical perspective." Middle Eastern Studies 40.4 (2004): 113–134.
 * Öniş, Ziya. "Multiple Faces of the “New” Turkish Foreign Policy: Underlying Dynamics and." Insight Turkey 13.1 (2011): 47-65.
 * Öniş, Ziya. "Domestic politics, international norms and challenges to the state: Turkey-EU relations in the post-Helsinki Era." Turkish studies 4.1 (2003): 9-34.
 * Öniş, Ziya. "The triumph of conservative globalism: The political economy of the AKP era." Turkish Studies 13.2 (2012): 135–152.
 * Onis, Ziya, and M. Hakan Yavuz. "The Emergence of a New Turkey: Democracy and the AK Parti." (2006): 207.

Some of his recent works include:


 * Kutlay, Mustafa, and Ziya Öniş. "A Critical Juncture: Russia, Ukraine and the Global South." Survival 66.2 (2024): 19-36.
 * Kutlay, Mustafa, and Ziya Öniş. "Governance crises and resilience of authoritarian populism: 2023 Turkish elections from the perspective of Hirschman’s ‘exit, voice, and loyalty’." Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (2024): 1-21.
 * Kutlay, Mustafa, and Ziya Öniş. "Liberal democracy on the edge? Anxieties in a shifting global (dis) order." Alternatives 48.1 (2023): 20–37.
 * Öniş, Ziya. "Turkey’s New Presidential Regime: Fragility, Resilience, Reversibility." REFLEKTİF: Journal of Social Sciences 4.1 (2023): 159–179.
 * Öniş, Ziya. "Historic missed opportunities and prospects for renewal: Turkey-EU relations in a post-Western order." Turkish Studies (2023): 1-23.
 * Kutlay, Mustafa, and Ziya Öniş. "Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism." Third World Quarterly 42.12 (2021): 3051–3069.
 * Öniş, Ziya. “The West Versus The Rest: The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine And The Crisis Of The ‘Post-Western’ Order.” Transatlantic Policy Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, 2023, pp. 33–52.