Our world is squeezed between extraordinary webs of interdependence and a suboptimal capacity to generate a commensurate reservoir of goodwill and trust to match our global networks. I know of no other program which addresses this profound mismatch as effectively as the World Fellows Program.
2009
Hakan Altinay
Director
European School of Politics
Hakan Altinay is a distinguished intellectual and promotor of global civics. In April 2022, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison by a Turkish court, accused of planning to overthrow the government, in Turkey’s crackdown on dissent and freedom of assembly. Amnesty International classified him as a prisoner of conscience. He was released from prison after 18 months by a decision of the Court of Appeals.
Hakan is the founding Director of the European School of Politics and the President of the Global Civics Academy. His book, Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights In an Interdependent World, reflects work done while at Yale and was published in 2011 by Brookings Institution, later translated into Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The book also led to a documentary, directed by Jian Yi, another World Fellow, with viewers in 110 countries. His writings have appeared at the Economist, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, and Project Syndicate. His writings were published in Turkish as a book, titled Medeni (Civic), while he was in prison. Hakan was also the founding director of the Open Society Foundation in Turkey.
