Kenan Engin

Kenan Engin (* 1974 in Pertek, Turkey) is a Kurdish origin political scientist, writer and lecturer in Heidelberg, Mainz and Worms.

Life

Engin emigrated in 2000 from Turkey to Germany. He is a PhD in Politikwissenschsftler in International Relations at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. He studied at the University of Istanbul, University of Heidelberg, University of London and Harvard University. Since 2009 he works as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Heilbronn University and the University of Applied Sciences Worms. Since 1995, he writes in different magazines and newspapers. His articles, poems and essays were, inter alia, in Turkish, German and English in Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review, Frankfurt stapling, FES forum radical Gündem and published in the Journal of Turkish Weekly, the Eurasian magazine on numerous websites.

He focuses on conflict research, processes of nation-building, Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan. Kenan Engin speaks in light of the Arab Spring from a fifth wave of democratization based on Samuel Phillips Huntington's theory of democracy, citing parallels to the third wave of democratization in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s.

Works (selection)

  • ' Nation-building ' - The Theory and Case Study: Iraq. (Dissertation), Nomos, Baden -Baden, 2013, ISBN 9783848706846
  • Study of conflict resolution in Iraq: A federalist concept. ( Research results ), VDM, Saarbrücken, 2010 ISBN 9783639237665
  • Ahmet Kaya: Unutulmaz Yılların solcu Müzisyeni - German: The singer of the unforgettable years: Ahmet Kaya. ( Biography), Peri Publishing, Istanbul 2002, ISBN 975824571-6
  • Ağlayın - German: Wines. ( Essays ), Peri Publishing, Istanbul 2006, ISBN 9759010526
  • Yitik Zaman Metinleri - German: The lyrics of Lost Time. ( Essays ), Peri Publishing, Istanbul 2002, ISBN 9758245570
  • Kefilsiz Yasamin Yolcuları - German: The hopeless wanderer. ( Collection of poems ), Peri Publishing, Istanbul 2000, ISBN 975824535X
  • Merano. The long road of hope, Documentary, 2008 ( director), Film with support from the Robert Bosch Foundation, among others
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