Nazli Avdan
Associate Professor
Graduate Director
nazliavdan@ku.edu
Primary office:
785-864-9029
504F Blake Hall
International Relations and Quantitative Methodology
International migration, transnational terrorism, human trafficking and organized crime, quantitative methods
Teaching Interests
- International Relations
- International Security and Conflict
- Terrorism
- Globalization
- International Migration
- Political Methodology
Research
My work bridges insights from international security and economic interdependence literature and tests these implications on migration policies. I have published articles on visa policies and the connection between border governance and human trafficking. My other projects examine flows of transnational terrorism in the context of globalization.
Research Interests
- International Relations
- International Security and Conflict
- Terrorism
- Globalization
- International Migration
- Political Methodology
Selected Publications
Avdan, Nazli. Visas and Walls: Border Security in the Age of Terrorism. Books. University of Pennsylvania Press. Philadelphia, Pa: Penn Press, 2019.
Gelpi, Christopher F, and Nazli Avdan. “Democracies at Risk? A Forecasting Analysis of Regime Type and the Risk of Terrorist Attack.” Journal Articles. Conflict Management and Peace Science, October 2015. https://doi.org/10.1177/0738894215608998.
Avdan, Nazli. “Do Asylum Recognition in Europe Respond
to Transnational Terrorism?
The Migration-Security Revisited.” Journal Articles. European Union Politics 15, no. 4 (May 2014): 445–71.
Avdan, Nazli. “Controlling Access to Territory: Economic Interdependence, Transnational Terrorism, and Visa Policies.” Journal Articles. Journal of Conflict Resolution 58, no. 4 (2014): 592–624.
Avdan, Nazli. “Human Trafficking and Migration Control Policy: Vicious or Virtuous Cycle.” Journal Articles. Journal of Public Policy 32, no. 2 (2012): 1–35.
Avdan, Nazli, and Clayton Webb. “The Big, the Bad, and the Dangerous: Public Perceptions and Terrorism.” Journal Articles. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Accepted/In Press.
