Dr Ferit Belder
Dr Ferit Belder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. He earned his MSc from SOAS, University of London, in 2016, and completed his PhD at Istanbul University in 2019. His doctoral research analysed the political behaviour of ultra-Orthodox political parties in Israel through the framework of societal security.
During his PhD studies, he was a visiting researcher at Bar-Ilan University from November 2017 to July 2018. His academic expertise focuses on Israeli politics, including elections and political parties; the identity-security relationship; Israel-Palestine relations; and Jewish settlements. He is currently conducting his postdoctoral research, titled Identifying Multiple Frames of the Israeli “Settlements”, at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies.
His work has been published in journals such as Middle Eastern Studies, International Affairs, and the Contemporary Review of the Middle East, among others. Dr Belder has also presented his research at various academic conferences.
