scholarly articles
POLITICAL VIOLENCE
Besaw, C., Ritter. K, and Tezcür, G. M. 2023. “Beyond Collateral Damage: The Politics of Victimization in a Civil War.” Global Studies Quarterly 3(3).
Tezcür, G. M. and D. Horschig. 2021. “A Conditional Norm: Chemical Warfare from Colonialism to Contemporary Civil Wars.” Third World Quarterly 42(2): 366-384.
Tezcür, G. M. 2020. “A Path out of Patriarchy? Political Agency and Social Identity of Women Fighters.” Perspectives on Politics 18(3): 722-39.
Tezcür, G. M. and C. Besaw. 2020. “Jihadist Waves: Syria, the Islamic State, and the Changing Nature of Foreign Fighters.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 37 (2): 215-31.
Tezcür, G. M. and P. Asadzade. 2019. “Ethnic Nationalism versus Religious Loyalty: The Case of Kurds in Iran.” Nations and Nationalism 25 (2): 652-672.
Tezcür, G. M., and M. Gurses. 2017. “Ethnic Exclusion and Mobilization: The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey.” Comparative Politics 49 (2): 213-34.
Tezcür, G. M. 2016. “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Risks: Participation in an Ethnic Rebellion.” American Political Science Review 110 (2): 247-62.
Tezcür, G. M. 2015. “Violence & Nationalist Mobilization: The Onset of the Kurdish Insurgency in Turkey.” Nationalities Papers 43 (2): 248-66.
Tezcür, G. M. 2015. “Electoral Behavior in Civil Wars: The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey.” Civil Wars 17 (1): 70-88.
Tezcür, G. M. 2010. “When Democratization Radicalizes?: The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Turkey.” Journal of Peace Research 47 (6): 775-89.
RELIGION AND POLITICS
Tezcür, G. M. 2015. “Catholic and Muslim Human Rights Activism in Violent Internal Conflicts.” Politics and Religion 8 (1): 111–34.
Tezcür, G. M. 2010. “Moderation Theory Revisited: The Case of Islamic Political Actors.” Party Politics 16 (1): 69-88.
Tezcür, G. M., and T. Azadarmaki. 2008. “Religiosity and Islamic Rule in Iran.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47 (2): 211-24.
Tezcür, G. M. 2007. “Constitutionalism, Judiciary, and Democracy in Islamic Societies.” Polity 39 (4): 479-501.
Tezcür, G. M., T. Azadarmaki, and B. Mehri. 2006. “Religious Participation among Muslims: The Iranian Exceptionalism.” Middle East Critique 15 (3): 217-32.
DEMOCRACY, governance & rights
Magiya, Y., Popescu, B., and Tezcür, G. M. 2023. “All the Sultan’s Men: Regime Type, Insecurity and the Shuffling of Governors.” Comparative Political Studies.
Tezcür, G. M., R. Schiel, and B. Wilson. 2021. “The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey.” Development and Change 52(6): 1343-69.
Tezcür, G. M., T. Azadarmaki, B. Mehri, and Hooshang Nayebi. 2012. “Support for Democracy in Iran.” Political Research Quarterly 65 (2): 235–47.
Tezcür, G. M. 2012. “Democracy Promotion, Authoritarian Resiliency and Political Unrest in Iran.” Democratization 19 (1):120-40.
Tezcür, G. M. 2009. “Judicial Activism in Perilous Times: The Case of Turkey.” Law & Society Review 43 (2): 305-36.
POLITICS OF IDENTITY, ELECTORAL POLITICS & foreign policy
Tezcür, G. M.and H. Yildiz. 2021. “Kurdish Politics in post-2011 Syria: From Fragmentation to Hegemony.” Mediterranean Politics 26(1): 130-138.
Tezcür, G. M. 2019. “A Century of the Kurdish Question: Organizational Rivalries, Diplomacy, and Cross-Ethnic Coalitions.” Ethnopolitics 18 (1): 1-12.
Çiftçi, S. and G. M. Tezcür. 2016. “Soft Power, Religion and Anti-Americanism in the Middle East.” Foreign Policy Analysis 12 (3): 374-94.
Tezcür, G. M. and A. Grigorescu. 2014. “Activism in Turkish Foreign Policy: Balancing European & Regional Interests.” International Studies Perspectives 15(3): 257–76.
Tezcür, G. M. 2013. “Prospects for the Resolution of the Kurdish Question.” Insight Turkey 15 (2): 69-84.
Tezcür, G. M. 2012. “Trends and Characteristics of the Turkish Party System in Light of the 2011 Elections.” Turkish Studies 13 (2):117-34..
Matland, R. and G. M. Tezcür 2011. “Women as Candidates: An Experimental Study in Turkey.” Politics & Gender 7 (3): 365-90.
Tezcür, G. M. 2009. “Kurdish Nationalism and Identity in Turkey: A Conceptual Reinterpretation.” European Journal of Turkish Studies 10.