Elif Dördüncü AydemirPresident
Areas of expertise
- Political Strategy
- Political Risk Assessment
- Campaign Management
- Team and Network Management in Politics
Education
- PhD, Political Science, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Master, Political Sociology, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Master, International Relations-Strategy, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
- BA, Political Science and Public Administration,Marmara University
Elif Dördüncü Aydemir is an advisory board member of The George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. While working and setting winning strategies for over 180 campaigns around the world, she gives importance to academic presence in political science. She loves to work with students to convey her experience and knowledge to younger generations. She continues to work as a lecturer and gives seminars in prestigious universities around the world.
After graduating from Marmara University, Political Science and Public Administration Department, she continued her studies in Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
Elif Dördüncü Aydemir is an active member of IAPC (International Association of Political Consultants), EAPC (European Association of Political Consultants) and ISPP (International Society of Political Psychology).
She has completed her Master Degrees in International Relations-Strategy and also in Political Sociology from Sorbonne Paris I University where she continued to her PhD studies examining the political discourse of Turkish and Greek nationalisms. She is fluent and provides consultancy in English, French, Spanish and Turkish.
Latest Analyses & Insights on Elif's expertise
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U.S.-Japan alliance shifts from diplomacy to industrial security
The U.S.-Japan summit shows how much the alliance is being re-engineered around industrial security rather than just traditional diplomacy or defense. The two sides announced expanded cooperation including up to $73 billion in Japanese investment in U.S. energy projects, a joint action plan on critical minerals and rare earths, and a new working group on deep-sea mineral resource development.
Taken together, these moves show that Washington and Tokyo are treating energy capacity, mineral access and upstream resource control as core pillars of alliance strategy. The energy component is especially notable because it combines short-term power needs with longer-term industrial planning.
March 20, 2026 -
China’s economy looks stronger in factories than in dollar GDP
China’s economy today presents a striking contradiction. In trade and industrial terms, the country looks more formidable than ever. It has amassed an enormous merchandise surplus, dominates a widening range of strategic industries, and continues to outperform most advanced economies in real growth terms. Yet when measured in current U.S. dollars, its relative weight in the global economy has been slipping.
IMF data show China’s nominal GDP was about $20.65 trillion in 2025 versus $31.82 trillion for the United States, leaving China at a bit under two-thirds the size of the U.S. economy in dollar terms. The same IMF data put China at roughly 16.7% of world output in 2025, down from around 18.4% in 2021.
March 20, 2026 -
Iran conflict pushes Trump to relax a core protectionist shipping law
The Jones Act waiver shows how quickly the Trump administration has moved from ideological preference to crisis pragmatism under the pressure of the Iran war. Washington has granted a 60-day waiver of the century-old law, temporarily allowing foreign-flagged ships to carry fuel, fertilizer and other goods between U.S. ports in response to higher prices and supply disruptions linked to the conflict.
The move is significant not because it will dramatically reduce costs on its own, but because it signals that the administration now sees domestic shipping constraints as one of the bottlenecks worsening the economic fallout from the war.
March 19, 2026