Umut Yüksel

Research

Research

My recent project (Beyond Maximalism: The Role of Domestic Political Institutions in the Making and Reception of Excessive State Claims [CLAIMAX]), supported by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, investigated the ways in which domestic political institutions influence the making and reception of maximalist state claims. The project-related documents, working papers, and data will be shared in a separate section on this website in due course.

More generally, my research lies at the intersection of international security, international law, and domestic politics. I rely on original data to examine the determinants of state claims and disputes, focusing on domestic political institutions and international law.

Publications

  1. The Domain of International Adjudication: Why Sovereign States Abandon Decision Control

    With Fuad Zarbiyev

    Cambridge University PressUnder contract

  2. The LaGrand Effect: Changes in the Demand and Supply of ICJ Provisional Measures

    With Phattharaphong Saengkrai

    Journal of International Dispute SettlementOnline first

  3. The Law Behind Dispute Onset: How Legal Uncertainty Drives Maritime Boundary Disputes

    Journal of Conflict Resolution, 69(7–8), 1172–1204

  4. The Defocalizing Effect of International Courts: Evidence from Maritime Delimitation Practices

    With Ezgi Yildiz

    Review of International Organizations, 20, 825–861

  5. Legal Uncertainty and the Making of Maritime Boundaries

    Uncertainty in Global Politics, Edited by Anastasia Shesterinina and Miriam Matejova. London: Routledge, 101–16

  6. Understanding the Limitations of Behaviouralism: Lessons from the Field of Maritime Delimitation

    With Ezgi Yildiz

    German Law Journal, 23(3), 171–195

  7. Resource Disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights, Edited by K. W. Gray. Springer, Cham

Advanced working papers

  • International Courts and Selective Restraint in Times of Backlash

    With Ezgi Yildiz

  • When Does ISDS Go Too Far? Arbitration Claim Sensitivity and Reduction of Foreign Investor Protection in International Investment Agreements

    With Leopoldo Biffi and Thomas Schultz

Please feel free to contact me for a copy of the latest drafts.