Doc. Pelin Ayan Musil, PhD

pelin.ayan@aauni.edu

Letenska 5, Prague 1, Office no. 4.17

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Doc. Ayan Musil is a senior lecturer at Anglo-American University. She holds an MA in Political Science from Central European University (Budapest, 2005) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Bilkent University (Ankara, 2009). During her doctoral studies, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and spent a year at the Department of Government at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.). In 2019, she was a short-term visiting scholar at Stanford University, hosted by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.

She has been the principal investigator on two research projects funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GA膶R) and has participated in two Horizon Europe projects as a member of the Czech research team led by the Institute of International Relations Prague. Her research focuses on the rise of far-right populist parties, democratic recession in Muslim and post-communist contexts, as well as opposition strategies and movements.

She is the author of two monographs, co-editor of three edited volumes, has published extensively in leading academic journals, and authored several policy papers and expert memos.

Specialization

Democratization, regime change, political parties and party systems, social movements, qualitative research, contemporary Turkey

Publications

Academic Articles

  • Pelin Ayan Musil and Anita Tusor (2025). “.” Czech Journal of International Relations. 
  • Pelin Ayan Musil&苍产蝉辫;(2024)&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 24(2), 277鈥�295.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil and Sebnem Yardimci-Geyikci (2024) 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Government and Opposition, 59(2), 341-359.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2024) 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;Democratization, 31(1) 210-232.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2023) 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;Archiv orient谩ln铆 91(2): 205-228.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil and Salim Cevik (2024) 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 51(5): 1187-1205.
  • Alexei Anisin and Pelin Ayan Musil&苍产蝉辫;(2023)&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;Mediterranean Politics 28(2): 202-226.
  • Alexei Anisin and Pelin Ayan Musil&苍产蝉辫;(2022)&苍产蝉辫;鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Social Movement Studies 21(4): 395-412.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2023) 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Middle East Law and Governance 15(4), 435-461.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil and Jacob Maze (2021) 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Civil Wars (23)1: 25-56.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil and Jan Va拧enda (2020) 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Turkish Studies (21)1: 83-107.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil and Hasret Dikici Bilgin (2016) 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;International Political Science Review 37(2): 166-183.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2015) 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;South European Society and Politics, 20(1): 71-92.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2015) 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;New Perspectives 23(1): 71-96.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil聽(2014) 鈥淒oes Antagonism precede Agonism in Challenging Neoliberalism: The Gezi Resistance in Turkey,鈥澛�Acta Politologica聽6 (3): 326-342.
  • N. Fehim Kennedy, Nazli Senses and Pelin Ayan (2011). “” Teaching in Higher Education 16(1): 1-14.
  • Pelin Ayan (2010) 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Turkish Studies 11 (2): 197-215.

Books and Book Chapters

  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2025) 鈥�.鈥� In Mats Braun, Pelin Ayan Musil, Daniel Sitera (eds) Sv臎t v prom臎n谩ch 2025: Anal媒zy 脷MV. Institute of International Relations Prague, pp. 63-67.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2024) 鈥�.鈥� In Ondrej Ditrych, Mats Braun, Pelin Ayan Musil (eds) Sv臎t v prom臎n谩ch 2024: Anal媒zy 脷MV. Institute of International Relations Prague, pp. 22-28.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2022) . New York: Springer.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2021) ““. In Lutfi, Ameem; Schwartz, L. Kevin (eds.). Legacies of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror: Volume 1. Prague: Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, pp.40-42.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2021) 鈥�.鈥� in Alica Kizekova (ed) 膶esk茅 z谩jmy v roce 2020: Anal媒zy 脷MV. Institute of International Relations Prague, pp. 98-111.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2018) 鈥溾�� in Sabri Sayari, Pelin Ayan Musil, Ozhan Demirkol (eds.) Party Politics in Turkey. A Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge, pp. 80-97.
  • (in Turkish) Pelin Ayan Musil (2015) 鈥淢illiyet莽i Hareket Partisi: 陌deoloji, 脰rg眉t ve G眉ncel S枚ylemler鈥� In Edip A. Bekaroglu (ed.) . Istanbul: Vadi Press, pp. 159-186.
  • (in Turkish – textbook) Pelin Ayan Musil (2013) “H眉k眉met Sistemleri: Ba艧kanl谋k Sistemi ve Parlamenter Sistem” In Sabri Sayar谋, Hasret Dikici Bilgin (eds.) . Istanbul: Bilgi Universitesi Yay谋nlar谋, pp. 189-208.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2011) . New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Edited Volumes

  • Mats Braun, Pelin Ayan Musil, Daniel Sitera (eds). 2025. . Institute of International Relations Prague.
  • Ondrej Ditrych, Mats Braun, Pelin Ayan Musil (eds). 2024. . Institute of International Relations Prague.
  • Sabri Sayari, Pelin Ayan Musil, 脰zhan Demirkol (eds). 2018. . London: Routledge.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil and Juraj Mahfoud (eds). 2013. . Istanbul: Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM).

Policy Papers

  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2022).&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾�� Institute of International Relations Prague, 22.11.2022.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil, Clement Steuer and Sinan Arda (2021). 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Institute of International Relations Prague, 30.06.2022.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2020).&苍产蝉辫;鈥淭鈥� Institute of International Relations Prague, 23.12.2020

Book Reviews

  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2022) 鈥溾�� Party Politics 28(6): 1204-1205.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2016) 鈥�.鈥� Democratization 23(6): 1092-93.
  • Pelin Ayan Musil (2015) 鈥�.鈥� International Affairs 91(5): 1182-84.

Research Reports

  • K. Kochl枚ffel, P. Kratochv铆l, J. Kov谩艡, P Ayan Musil, Z. Sychra (2025).  ActEU Horizon Project. Published on 7 April 2025.
  • P. Kratochv铆l, K. Kochl枚ffel, J. Kov谩艡, L. Morales, P Ayan Musil, L. Ramiro, Z. Sychra (2024).  ActEU Horizon Project. Published on 5 November 2024.
  • J. Daniel, J. Svec, M. Larys and P. Ayan Musil (2024). . Re-ENGAGE Horizon Project. Published on 31 October 2024
  • P. Ayan Musil (2022). . Istanbul: Freedom Research Association of Turkey, July. 

Selected Op-Eds (published for Media & Public Audience)

Pelin Ayan Musil (2020). “Spojen铆 opozice proti populistick媒m vl谩d谩m na periferii Evropy: Volby starost暖 v Budape拧ti a Istanbulu” . Institute of International Relations Prague, pp. 22-25.

Pelin Ayan Musil and Sultan Tepe (2024). “?鈥� ECPR The Loop. 22.4.2024.

Pelin Ayan Musil (2023).&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾�� VoxPot, 3.5.2023.

Pelin Ayan Musil and Matej Bo膷ek (2021). 鈥溾�� Mezin谩rodn铆 Politika, 21.10.2021.

Pelin Ayan Musil (2021).&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾赌樷�� VoxPot, 26.3.2021.

Pelin Ayan Musil (2020). 鈥溾�� openDemocracy, 10 March.

Pelin Ayan Musil (2020).&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾�� VoxPot, 17.11.2020.