Kurzprofil

Ertuğ Tombuş hat einen Ph.D. in Politikwissenschaft an der Bilkent Universität, M.Sc. und B.Sc. in Politikwissenschaft der Middle East Technical Universität erworben.

Bevor er zur Humboldt-Universität kam lehrte er an der Columbia Universität, der New School for Liberal Arts, dem Eugene Lang College, der Western Connecticut State University, dem Fashion Institute of Technology, der SUNY und der Izmir University of Economics. Er war Gastwissenschaftler an der Northwestern Universität und der Yale Universität.

Er ist geschäftsführender Herausgeber der Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. 

Seine primären Forschungs- und Lehrgebiete sind die Politische Theorie, Verfassungstheorie, Vergleichender Konstitutionalismus, Populismus, Säkularismus, Rechtssoziologie, Politische Soziologie, Zeitgenössische Sozialtheorien und die Politik der Türkei.

Publikationen

Artikel (peer-reviewed) und Buchkapitel

• "The People and Its Embodiment: Authoritarian Foundations of Constitutions in Turkey" in Regressing Towards Constitutional Autocracy? The Failing of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey, eds. Felix Petersen and Zeynep Yanasmayan, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• "(Post-) Kemalist Secularism in Turkey" in Journal of Balkans and Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 19(1), 2017 (co-authored with Berfu Aygenc).
• "Reluctant Democratization: The Case of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey", Constellations, Vol. 20(2), 2013.
• "Learning From Success, Learning From Failure: South Africa, Hungary, Turkey (and Egypt)" Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 39(4-5), 2013 (co-authored with Andrew Arato).
• "Demokratik Meşruiyet İlkesi Olarak Hukuk Devleti" (The Rule of Law as a Democratic Principle of legitimacy) DOĞU BATI, Vol. 21, 2002 (in Turkish).

Rezensionen

•  "Iren Ozgur, Islamic Schools in Modern Turkey: Faith, Politics, and Education (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012)," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 46, 2014.

Blogbeiträge

• A Matter of Pragmatism rather than Principle. How to Restore Constitutional Democracy in Turkey, Verfassungsblog, 30.12.2021 (zusammen mit Ece Göztepe und Silvia von Steisdorff).
• "Autocracy behind a democratic facade: the political regime in Turkey," CIVICUS, 03.10.18.
• “The Fall of Turkish Democracy: Codifying Autocracy through Constitutional Amendments,” Public Seminar, 03.03.17.
• “The Tragedy of the 2015 Turkish Elections,” Public Seminar, 10.11.15.
• “Erdoğan’s Turkey: Beyond Legitimacy and Legality”, vol. III, issue 12, pp.40-52, Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (ResearchTurkey), London, ResearchTurkey, 2014.