Lingkai Kong

As a Chinese political scientist based in Istanbul, I am a postdoctoral researcher as guest researcher at Istanbul University, Türkiye, under the Chair of Political Science held by Prof. Dr. Ateş Uslu. Concurrently, I serve as a postdoctoral researcher at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, supervised by Prof. Dr. Cristina Nogueira da Silva, and as a visiting scholar at Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), University of Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by Dr. Andrés Malamud.

I was a PhD Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Izmir University of Economics, Türkiye, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Devrim Sezer. 

Education

2021-2025 PhD in Political Science, 

                      Izmir University of Economics, Türkiye

2019-2021 MA in Economics and Quantitative Finance, 

                    University of Zurich, Switzerland             

2015-2019 BA in Economics, 

                      Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

Research Field

My research examines how decentralized political and constitutional orders can sustain social cooperation and collective self-governance in complex and pluralistic societies, drawing on political philosophy and the history of political thought. It engages with themes such as federalism, autonomy, associational democracy, and anarchism, as well as the ways in which decentralized technologies may reshape economic coordination and governance.

Collaboration

I am a diligent researcher, currently having multiple studies in progress. Any collaboration and discussion are welcome.