Dr Eliza Gheorghe

Eliza Gheorghe is an Assistant Professor in the International Relations Department at Bilkent University, Ankara. She earned her doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford (No Corrections, 2014) and an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University (Honors, 2010) on a Fulbright scholarship. She held research fellowships at Vanderbilt University, the University of Hamburg, Yale University, Harvard Kennedy School, Cornell University, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, and Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne. Her research was funded by the Stanton Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and the University of Vienna. She is the recipient of the International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye, and the Outstanding Young Scientist Prize from the Turkish Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on nuclear proliferation and the evolution of the nuclear market; nuclear alliances; the nuclear non-proliferation regime; and nuclear security. Her work has been published in International Security, Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Strategic Studies, among others. She is the author of Market of Doom. Proliferation and the Logic of Nuclear Trade, which is coming out with Cornell University Press. She is on the editorial team of the journal International Security.