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Biography
Kilic Bugra Kanat is an assistant professor of Political Science at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College He received his Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY). He received his M.A. in Political Science from Syracuse University and his M.A. in International Affairs from Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI). He completed his undergraduate education in the International Relations Department of the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey). Dr. Kanat also holds a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Middle Eastern Affairs and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Conflict Resolution.
His main areas of research interest are foreign policy decision-making, foreign policy change, and domestic politics and foreign policy interaction. His area of expertise is Middle Eastern Politics. Dr. Kanat teaches Introduction to International Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Terrorism, International Relations of the Middle East, and Foreign Policy Making at Penn State Behrend.
He was awarded the Outstanding Research Award and Council of Fellows Faculty Research Award at Penn State Behrend. He participated in the Future Leaders Program of Foreign Policy Initiative. Dr. Kanat’s writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, Insight Turkey, The Diplomat, Middle East Policy, Arab Studies Quarterly, Mediterranean Quarterly, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. He is a columnist at Daily Sabah. He is the author of A Tale of Four Augusts: Obama’s Syria Policy.
Courses Taught
- PL SC 014, International Relations
- PL SC 467, International Relations of the Middle East
Publications
Turkiye'nin ABD Politikasi 2021 - 2022
Donald Rumsfeld's legacy on US foreign policy, Daily Sabah - July 5, 2021
Will the NATO communique go beyond being a wishlist?, Daily Sabah - June 29, 2021
Erdoğan-Biden’s NATO talks were good, but now what?, Daily Sabah - June 22, 2021
Erdoğan-Biden meeting an indicator for other US allies, Daily Sabah - June 15, 2021
Will America please Americans?, Daily Sabah - June 8, 2021
Trans-Atlantic alliance meets in a different world, Daily Sabah - June 5, 2021
China-centric: Biden's first 100 days in office, Daily Sabah - May 4, 2021
Erdoğan-Biden's June meeting potential venue for rescuing ties, Daily Sabah - May 1, 2021
US-China technology war looming on the horizon, Daily Sabah - April 24, 2021
Is Washington closing its Afghan chapter for good?, Daily Sabah - April 20, 2021
Biden-Putin rivalry to shape US’ Asia-Pacific policy, Daily Sabah - April 17, 2021
Weeks, months, years? When will this happen?, Daily Sabah - April 6, 2021
Since inauguration, Biden pushes red alert for China, Daily Sabah - April 3, 2021
NATO's Brussels meeting: Is the world more polarized?, Daily Sabah
An American presidential tradition: 'America is back', Daily Sabah - March 23, 2021
The 'Pivot to Asia' in Joe Biden style, Daily Sabah - March 20, 2021
Death, inequality, recession: The COVID-19 mirror, Daily Sabah - March 13, 2021
Biden on horns of a dilemma for Iranian nuclear deal, Daily Sabah - March 9, 2021
Can Joe Biden convince allies US now reliable?, Daily Sabah - March 6, 2021
If not against coups, then when?, Daily Sabah - March 2, 2021
US-Russia affairs: No more 'Rocky' at the White House?, Daily Sabah - February 23, 2021
US' 'ifs and buts' on PKK cause skepticism in Turkey, Daily Sabah - February 20, 2021
Biden's road map in Sino-American relations, Daily Sabah - February 13, 2021
Biden's bumpy road in US foreign policy, Daily Sabah - February 8, 2021
Wake-up call for global COVID-19 vaccination process, Daily Sabah - February 2, 2021
A piece of advice to Biden's team on Turkey ties, Daily Sabah - January 30, 2021
An unprecedented inauguration post-storming, Daily Sabah - January 19, 2021
American democracy in crisis, a real one, Daily Sabah - January 16, 2021
Capitol protests: The state of the union, Daily Sabah - January 12, 2021
2020: A year of crisis for US, China and WHO, Daily Sabah - January 1, 2021
Conversation on COVID19 - December, 2020
US sanctions only cause more tension with Turkey, Daily Sabah - December, 2020
Trump’s last days critical for Biden, Daily Sabah - December 28, 2020
The Biden doctrine: US-Russian affairs , Daily Sabah - December 21, 2020
Is there any hope of fixing Turkey-US ties?, Daily Sabah - December 19, 2020
Without Turkey, trans-Atlantic alliance cannot achieve goals, Daily Sabah - December 12, 2020
How can his new Cabinet help President-elect Biden?, Daily Sabah - December 5, 2020
America is back: From where? to when?, Daily Sabah - November 30, 2020
From trade wars to trade agreement wars?, Daily Sabah - November 23, 2020
From American dream to American nightmare, Daily Sabah - November 16, 2020
Divided States of America, Daily Sabah - November 8, 2020
Can US repair its declining foreign image after elections?, Daily Sabah - November 3, 2020
The story of a Halloweeny election, Daily Sabah - November 2, 2020
2020 Başkanlık Secimleri Adayların Dis Politikalari (The Candidates' FOreign Policies in US Elections) - October, 2020
Wishful thinking and allegations instead of strategy, Daily Sabah - October 24, 2020
Divisions, foreign policy, COVID-19: US goes to polls, Daily Sabah - October 19, 2020
Collective efforts sole way to beat COVID-19, Daily Sabah - October 17, 2020
Coronavirus's impact on image of world powers - October 12, 2020
China becomes domestic issue for US politics, Daily Sabah - October 10, 2020
US elections in light of pandemic and Trump testing positive, Daily Sabah - October 5, 2020
Trump-Biden debate: Why US public doesn't want to have another, Daily Sabah - October 3, 2020
Ak Party Years in Turkey: Domestic and Foreign Policy - September, 2020
Evolution of Public Perceptions of Coups in Turkey - September, 2020
Turkish-American Relations During the Ak Party Government - September, 2020
Amerika'da 2020 Başkanlık Secimleri (2020 Presidential Elections in the US) - September, 2020
US presidential debate in shadow of COVID-19, Daily Sabah - September 29, 2020
Can US or EU adopt a logical position in Eastern Mediterranean?, Daily Sabah - September 26, 2020
US image in post-pandemic period, Daily Sabah - September 19, 2020
The man in Paris: Ambitious, unreliable failure, Daily Sabah - September 14, 2020
US civil-military relations and Donald Trump, Daily Sabah - September 12, 2020
Compromise or not: Ankara-Greece tension continues, Daily Sabah - September 5, 2020
Farewell to Abe: Change in dynamics in Japan and Asia-Pacific, Daily Sabah - August 31, 2020
A wake up call for Turkey-US relations, Daily Sabah - August 24, 2020
Grave mistake in US foreign policy: Active anti-Turkey attitude, Daily Sabah - August 22, 2020
Is Joe Biden a perfect stranger to Turkey? Guess not!, Daily Sabah - August 17, 2020
Vice presidents, US elections and Biden's chance, Daily Sabah - August 15, 2020
Taiwan: 1st COVID-related fallout in US-China relations, Daily Sabah - August 8, 2020
One election, too many questions, Daily Sabah - August 4, 2020
South China Sea the new center of gravity in global geopolitics, Daily Sabah - July 27, 2020
Russia and China in US elections, Daily Sabah - July 25, 2020
Jaws, COVID-19 and American tragedy, Daily Sabah - July 20, 2020
July 15 and Turkey-US relations, Daily Sabah - July 13, 2020
What happens when wearing a mask becomes a political symbol?, Daily Sabah - July 11, 2020
Russia and US elections: Another hoax, or not?, Daily Sabah - July 4, 2020
US foreign policy after elections: Trump 2.0 or Obama/Biden 3.0?, Daily Sabah - June 30, 2020
A deja vu of debates on American decline?, Daily Sabah - June, 2020
COVID-19 and Floyd riots: Trump's reelection is at risk, Daily Sabah - June, 2020
COVID-19 is not over yet, Daily Sabah - June 22, 2020
Turkey-US cooperation in Libya, Daily Sabah - June 20, 2020
Rivalry of insecure powers, Daily Sabah - June 15, 2020
What's going on between Trump and the US military?, Daily Sabah - June 6, 2020
'I can't breathe,' neither can the world, Daily Sabah - June 1, 2020
The urgent priority for US foreign policy, Daily Sabah - May 30, 2020
If we forget COVID-19 outbreak..., Daily Sabah - May 19, 2020
What went wrong in US?, Daily Sabah - May 16, 2020
US moves toward elections amid COVID-19-induced changes, Daily Sabah - May 12, 2020
Coronavirus and the US presidential elections, Daily Sabah - May 9, 2020
COVID-19 and the dawning of the US-China struggle, Daily Sabah - May 5, 2020
The China issue and upcoming US presidential elections, Daily Sabah - May 2, 2020
Why does Turkey help other nations?, Daily Sabah - May 2, 2020
Trump's Jerusalem Move: Making Sense of US Policy on the Israeli Palestinian Conflict - April, 2020
Turkey's Global Activism and Leadership on Trump's Jerusalem Move - April, 2020
'Money Heist' in the days of coronavirus: Houston, we have a problem!, Daily Sabah - April 25, 2020
Dan Brown, cities and how Turkey is dealing with coronavirus?, Daily Sabah - April 21, 2020
Why is there a debate about WHO today?, Daily Sabah - April 18, 2020
Camus, New York and unending wars of pandemics, Daily Sabah - April 13, 2020
What went so terribly wrong in the US?, Daily Sabah - April 11, 2020
Munch and the Spanish flu: The art of remembering pandemics, Daily Sabah - April 9, 2020
US' virus strategy fails to curb impact, Daily Sabah - April 4, 2020
In post-coronavirus world, nation states doomed to change policies, Daily Sabah - March 30, 2020
World War Z and our novel pandemic, Daily Sabah - March 24, 2020
Coronavirus pandemic worse than we think, Daily Sabah - March 16, 2020
The pandemic that haunts the world, Daily Sabah - March 14, 2020
Moscow gathering: The end of violence?, Daily Sabah - March 6, 2020
Turkey, the West, Russia: Everything depends on Idlib, Daily Sabah - February 29, 2020
Idlib is the test of tests, Daily Sabah - February 10, 2020
'Deal of the Century': More than a failure, Daily Sabah - February 1, 2020
Coronavirus: A reminder to prepare for next outbreak, Daily Sabah - January, 2020
The fear of ghosts and US foreign policy, Daily Sabah - January 17, 2020
With Soleimani dead and Iran vowing revenge, what's next?, Daily Sabah - January 11, 2020
The changer of all games: The killing of Qasem Soleimani, Daily Sabah - January 4, 2020
2019 conflicts will continue to haunt 2020's agenda - January 2, 2020
The Future of U.S.-Turkish Relations, Middle East Policy - October, 2018
Collaborator: Jackson Hannon
Trump'in Bir Yili (First Year of Trump) - October 9, 2018
The Results of June 24, 2018 - August 16, 2018
Collaborators: MEGHAN BACKER; HASAN YUCEL
Transatlantic Relations in the Age of Donald Trump, Insight Turkey - July, 2018
Nükleer Anlaşma Sonrası ABD’nin İran Politikası (US Policy on Iran After the JCPOA) - July 3, 2018
Collaborator: HASAN YUCEL
Turkiye'nin ABD Politikasi (Turkey's Policy Towards the US) - June, 2018
Turkey’s Elections 2018 - June 20, 2018
Collaborators: JACKSON HANNON; MEGHAN BACKER
The Coups in Turkey and the July 15th Coup Attempt, July 15th Coup Attempt: What Happened and Why? - December, 2017
US-Turkey Relations Under the Ak Party: An Almanac - November 15, 2017
Collaborators: Serra Diptas; Jackson Hannon
Challenges and Opportunities in Turkish-Israeli Relations - October, 2017
Collaborator: Jackson Hannon
Turkey and US Relations: A Redefinition of Alliances, Alignments and Partnership, Turkey and Transatlantic Relations - September, 2017
Turkish-American Relations in 2016, The Annals of Turkish Foreign Policy - February, 2017
1915 events, shared pain, common future - 2016
2015 and International Security - 2016
A frustrated and disappointed superpower - 2016
A new security understanding for Europe - 2016
A Nobel is not enough for Kilic, AFAD, local communities - 2016
A slippery slope: US-Russian relations - 2016
After 13 years, another March of crises in US-Turkish relations? - 2016
After US elections, focus should turn to what went wrong - 2016
Agreement, arrangement and optimism - 2016
Alliances, alignments, coalitions and partnerships in the Middle East - 2016
American Decline and American Elections - 2016
Ankara attack and YPG connection: Another Bekaa or Qandil in Syria? - 2016
Asia-Pacific in 2016 - 2016
Blair and the Iraq War - 2016
Cessation of hostilities in Syria - 2016
Daesh and PKK attack Turkey again - 2016
Declinism, debate and elections in the US - 2016
Fallujah and beyond: The fight against Daesh in Iraq - 2016
Fight against terrorism takes a new turn - 2016
Forcing Syrians to flee the country is a tactic of the Syrian regime - 2016
From the hood incident to "the picture" - 2016
If Japan is back, it has to do more - 2016
If Murakami was writing about Istanbul - 2016
In Syria, the regime has no limits - 2016
Istanbul and Ankara terror attacks - 2016
It is not against what US is, but what US does - 2016
Lessons from the Istanbul and Jakarta attacks - 2016
Lessons from the Obama administration - 2016
New dissent on Obama's Syria Policy - 2016
Notes for the next administration about Turkey - 2016
Nuclear Security, terrorism and human security - 2016
Obama's Legacy in the Middle East - 2016
Obama's test with is foreign policy record - 2016
One night in Turkey, a century for many in the world - 2016
President Obama and Syria - 2016
Questions about the Geneva process - 2016
Reliability of US as a Partner - 2016
Russia as an unpredictable power - 2016
Russian Enigma - 2016
Russian-Turkish Relations and Conflicted West - 2016
Saramago, Churchill and Brexit - 2016
Surreal coup, real violence, real threat - 2016
Syria agreement - 2016
Syrian Opposition and al-Rai - 2016
Syrian refugees in Canada - 2016
The challenge of the Syrian opposition - 2016
The fight against Death - 2016
The mission of the US president Should he/she accept it... - 2016
The Syrian Regime recognizes no limits: Chemical weapons, barrel bombs and starvation - 2016
The Turkish people said, "Never Again" - 2016
The US and YPG - 2016
This time terror hits the people of Nice - 2016
Three photos of kids in Syria - 2016
Tragedy of Aleppo - 2016
Turkey and Israeli Relations: Not deja vu from the 1990s - 2016
Turkey post-coup attempt - 2016
Turkey, Iran and public opinion - 2016
Turkey-Israel deal an opportunity to resolve region's chronic problems - 2016
Turkish-American relations revisited - 2016
Turkish-Israeli Relations - 2016
Turkish-US relations at Insight Turkey Conference - 2016
UN General Assembly and UN's credibility - 2016
US allies and US image - 2016
US elections and the US's image - 2016
US-Turkish relations and the next administration - 2016
US-Turkish relations and the systemic dimension - 2016
US-Turkish relations and the YPG effect - 2016
Vice President Biden's visit to Turkey - 2016
What if the coup attempt was Successful? - 2016
What is the ‘exit strategy' for US from cooperation with the YPG? - 2016
Who is shaping US policy in Syria? - 2016
World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul - 2016
Yenikapi Consensus - 2016
YPG is a master spoiler in Syria - 2016
YPG threat may be closer than it appears - 2016
Turkish-American Relations and the Next Administration of the US - September, 2016
Tale of Four Augusts: Obama's Syria Policy (Revised and Enlarged Second Edition) - September 01, 2016
Securitizing of Uyghur Question and Its Challenges, Insight Turkey - April, 2016
Turkiye'nin ABD Politikasi (Turkey's Policy Towards the US) - January, 2016
Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Towards an Integration or Out-migration, Orient - January, 2016
US-Turkey Realignment in Syria, Middle East Policy - January, 2016
Collaborator: Kadir Ustun
Turkish Foreign Policy in the Age of Arab Spring, Politics and Foreign Policy in Turkey: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, - December, 2015
A coalition or an early election? - 2015
A potential coalition government and foreign policy - 2015
AFAD and Local NGOs Deserve a Noble Peace Prize - 2015
Amnesty's new report and the situation in Northern Syria - 2015
Another wakeup call for the world to fight against terrorism - 2015
Apology diplomacy and Asia-Pacific - 2015
Can Japan have a new foreign policy? - 2015
China in Syria - 2015
China's war on Ramadan - 2015
Conflict in Yemen and nuclear negotiations - 2015
Debates on Turkey in Moscow - 2015
Does Secretary Kerry's statement signal a policy change in Syria? - 2015
Egypt two years after the coup - 2015
Election Results: Toward an early election? - 2015
False nostalgia about the parliamentary system in Turkey - 2015
Fight against Daesh after 16 months - 2015
Fixing a broken strategy with "solution Assad" - 2015
From "Missiles of October" to missiles of Syria - 2015
Iran deal and its impact on the US and the Middle East - 2015
Iranian Nuclear Deal and Its Impact on US Domestic Politics - 2015
Iranian nuclear deal and US-Israeli Relations - 2015
James Bond, Britney Spears and Sino-UK relations - 2015
Japan after the elections - 2015
Kenan Evren and coups in Turkey - 2015
Lessons from the Syrian Conflict - 2015
Losing the war against terrorism - 2015
Midnight in Paris and the G20 meeting - 2015
Natural disaster as the common enemy of Asia - 2015
Never let a good crisis go to waste - 2015
Obama's 7 year Russia record - 2015
Obama's strategic approach lacks a middle ground between "preemption" and "strategic patience" - 2015
Obama’s strategy lacks middle ground between ‘pre-emption’ and ‘strategic patience’ - 2015
Potential nuclear deal with Iran - 2015
Presidential candidates' responsibility to protect US standing - 2015
Preventive military operations of Turkey against terrorism - 2015
Putin in Cairo, Sissi in Ecstasy - 2015
Red Heat and US-Russian relations - 2015
Refugee Crisis a major test for G20 to avoid being G-Zero - 2015
Refugees and the world - 2015
Risks of Russian actions - 2015
Russia in Syria: A Kadyrov model? - 2015
Russia in Syria: Any relation with Ukraine and Iran? - 2015
Russia in Syria: The dangers of military involvement - 2015
Saving the day and repeating the same mistakes in Egypt - 2015
Srebrenica and the international system - 2015
Swing votes swing back: One winner and many losers - 2015
Syria after the meetings in Cairo and Moscow - 2015
Syria and Obama's Presidency - 2015
The attacks in KObani and the fight against ISIS - 2015
The Clock and the US - 2015
The elections in Turkey and the HDP - 2015
The end of the goal of building geopolitical equilibrium? - 2015
The future of the crisis between Russia and Turkey - 2015
The interview with Assad - 2015
The massacre in Paris and how to stop another one - 2015
The PKK and the reconciliation process - 2015
The plot against America - 2015
The presidential candidates and the US's image around the world - 2015
The propaganda offensive hurts Russia - 2015
The reliability of the US as an ally - 2015
The risk takers against risk-averse powers of the world - 2015
The statement of condolences and potential reconciliation - 2015
The strategy against ISIS a year after Mosul - 2015
Things we know about elections - 2015
Time to be more realistic about US-Turkey ties - 2015
Tony Blair and debates about the Iraq War - 2015
Turkey and Japan in the Middle East? - 2015
Turkey and the fight against ISIS - 2015
Turkey's future in the region - 2015
Turkey's war on terror and the PKK - 2015
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar in Syria - 2015
Turkish-American relations once again - 2015
Uighurs as the invisible victims of the international system - 2015
US and the Gulf after Camp David - 2015
US reaction is harder to understand than Russian motivation in Syria - 2015
US role in the world and debates for next president - 2015
US-Russian relations and Syria - 2015
What China and US won't talk about at the summit - 2015
What happens when the world realizes the superpower's foreign policy problem? - 2015
What will voters pay attention to in the early elections? - 2015
Who will apologize to the Syrians? - 2015
Why is Russia trying to escalate the crisis? - 2015
World's pivot to Asia - 2015
Elections in Turkey - October 10, 2015
The Tale of Four Augusts: Obama's Syria Policy - June 01, 2015
Turkey and the US: The Longest Two Years of the Relations - June 01, 2015
Nukleer Mutabakat, Jeopolitik Karmasa (Nuclear Deal and Geopolitical Mess) - April, 2015
Turkey's Syrian Refugees: Toward Integration - April 01, 2015
Collaborator: Kadir Ustun
Sinirlari Asan Kriz: Suriye (The Crisis Without Borders: Syria) - March, 2015
Politics and Foreign Policy in Turkey: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives - February 15, 2015
Collaborators: Kadir Ustun, Co-Editor; Ahmet Tekelioglu, Co-Editor; Array Array
Turk-Amerikan Iliskileri: Taktiksel Ortaliktan Stratejik Muammaya (Turkish-American Relations: From Tactical Convergence to Strategic Ambivalence), Turk Dis Politika Yilligi (Annals of Turkish Foreign Policy- 2014) - January, 2015
'Great Power Brings Great Responsibility': Rwanda Remembered - 2014
2014 was a good year for Assad - 2014
A New Era in Turkish Politics - 2014
America's Standing in the World Before and After Obama - 2014
Assad's trick and his increasing invisibility - 2014
Back to Rocky IV? - 2014
Biden's visit confirms US-Turkey rapprochement - 2014
Blame Turkey’ Frustration of Anonymous US Officials - 2014
Borders and Youth in the Middle East - 2014
Can Pictures be Worth a Thousand Words - 2014
Central and Eastern Europe in the Era of Putin. - 2014
Challenging Narratives and Remembering Syria - 2014
Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold - 2014
Do we Need Zombies for the UN to Act?” - 2014
Does ISIS have a Strategy? - 2014
Electing a President and a Political System - 2014
Elections and Foreign Policy - 2014
Ethnic Tensions in China and Geopolitics of the Uyghur Question - 2014
India After the Elections - 2014
International Security in 2015: ISIS, diseases and cybersecurity - 2014
Israel and the Region After Israel's Operation Protective Edge - 2014
Kobani and Turkish-American Relations - 2014
Kobani: A City on Fire - 2014
Local Elections and Their Aftermath - 2014
Losing the World While Putting its House in Order: Toward Imagining a US Without the World. - 2014
Mass Sentencing in Egypt: from Tiananmen to Revolutionary Tribunals?” - 2014
Obama and Syria: A Year After Chemical Attacks - 2014
Obama in Asia: Reassuring US Allies as China Keeps a Close Watch - 2014
Obama's ISIS Strategy and Unanswered Questions - 2014
Old habits triggered by fear and obsession - 2014
On the Reconciliation Process - 2014
Operations Against ISIS - 2014
Panic and anxiety in the days of Ebola crisis - 2014
Pope Francis's visit and its significance - 2014
Presidential Elections as the First Step Toward a New System - 2014
Putin and Russia's Dreams - 2014
Recognition of 'Shared Pain' as the First Step - 2014
Russia and Egypt: Déjà vu?” - 2014
Sisi and the Ghost of Rabaa - 2014
Syria as ‘a Wicked Problem’ - 2014
Syria, Ukraine and Historical Analogies - 2014
System Error, Time to Reset - 2014
The day in Syria: Barrel bombs on the displaced people - 2014
The Day’ in Syria: Barrel Bombs on Displaced People - 2014
The Election is Over, Long Live the Next Election - 2014
The End of Another Hostage Crisis - 2014
The Future of Democracy in Turkey - 2014
The Future of Democracy in Turkey (II) - 2014
The future of reconciliation process - 2014
The future of Turkish-Greek relations - 2014
The Sustainability of Turkey’s Refugee Burden - 2014
The Ukrainian Crisis as a New Chessboard of Global Geopolitics - 2014
Tolstoy, Putin and Crimea - 2014
Toward the End of Geopolitical Pluralism in Central Asia? - 2014
Turkish Foreign Policy During the Arab Awakening - 2014
Turkish Foreign Policy During the Arab Awakening (II) - 2014
Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Era - 2014
Turkish-Japanese Partnership: A Blue Ocean Strategy? - 2014
US Discovers the World Through the World Cup - 2014
What do the UNSC Elections Mean? - 2014
What do we learn from violence - 2014
What does the Sentencing of Ilham Tohti Mean for Uighurs, China and the International System? - 2014
When the Risks of Inaction are More Than the Potential Dangers of Action - 2014
Why Should We Take Seymour Hersh Seriously - 2014
Why will Things Only Get Worse for the Ethnic Conflicts of China - 2014
“How Some Turks Stopped Worrying About the Polls and Learned to Love...” - 2014
Repression in China and Its Consequences in Xinjiang, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology - October, 2014
Diversionary Foreign Policy in Authoritarian States: The Use of Multiple Diversionary Strategies by Saddam Hussein during the Gulf Wa, Journal of Strategic Security - July, 2014
Obama’nin Ikinci Doneminde Amerikan Dis Politikasi, (US Foreign Policy in Obama’s Second Term - May, 2014
A New Turkish-American Partnership: The Nature of the Partnership in Two Periods of Crisis.” , Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies - April, 2014
Turkey’s 2014 Local Elections - March, 2014
Theorizing the Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy, Insight Turkey - January, 2014
Change and Adaptation in Turkish Foreign Policy - December 01, 2013
Collaborators: Kadir Ustun, Co-Editor; Ahmet Tekelioglu, Co-Editor
Turkiye ve Orta Asya (Turkey and Central Asia in 2012), Turk Dis Politikasi Yilligi (The Annals of Turkish Foreign Policy) - November, 2013
US-Turkish Relations: In Search of a New Paradigm, Mediterranean Quarterly - October, 2013
Turkish-Israeli Reset: Business as Usual?, Middle East Policy - July, 2013
Ending Ceasefires for Political Survival: The Use of Diversionary Strategies by the PKK Leadership - June, 2013
Drivers of Foreign Policy Change in the AK Party Decade - May, 2013
Debates on American Decline, Insight Turkey - April, 2013
Evolution of Turkish-Israeli Relations in the Last Twenty Years: Causes, Actors and Outcomes, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies - January, 2013
US-Turkey Relations in the AK Party Decade - January, 2013
Arab Spring and US-Israel Relations - December, 2012
'War on Terror’ as a Diversionary Strategy: Personifying Minorities as Terrorists in the People’s Republic of China, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs - 2012
America’s Asia-Pacific Strategy and Turkish American Partnership, Insight Turkey - 2012
Continuity of Change in Turkish Foreign Policy Under the JDP Government: The Cases of Bilateral Relations with Israel and Syria, Arab Studies Quarterly - 2012
Secimlerden Sonra ABD’nin Ortadogu Politikasi (The Impact of US Elections to the Middle East Politics of the US) - 2012
US-Turkey Relations: Arab Spring and the Search for Model Partnership - 2012
US Elections: The System and the Political Culture (In Turkish) - November, 2012
The End of American Elections (In Turkish) - November 7, 2012
American Elections after Hurricane Sandy (in Turkish) - October 31, 2012
The Impact of US Elections to the Middle East Politics of the US (In Turkish), Seta Analiz - October, 2012
Syria: A Victim of US Elections (in Turkish) - October 18, 2012
The Stories of Mo Yan - October 15, 2012
The Presidential Debates in US Elections - October 7, 2012
National Security in Presidential Campaigns - October 3, 2012
A New Crisis in Asian Seas - September 23, 2012
The Search for A Second American Century (in Turkish) - September 20, 2012
The Impact of Events in Libya to US Foreign Policy (in Turkish) - September 15, 2012
Mitt Romney and Republican Party (in Turkish) - September 9, 2012
US Strategy in Africa (in Turkish) - September 1, 2012
A New Superpower Race in Asia (in Turkish) - July 28, 2012
US-Turkey Relations: Arab Spring and the Search for Model Partnership , Seta Perspective - May, 2012
Can Arab Spring Reach to Central Asia? - May 26, 2012
Iran and US Elections (in Turkish) - April 24, 2012
The Arab Spring Paranoia of China - April 15, 2012
A New Region for Competition: Africa (in Turkish) - April 5, 2012
Iran Scenarios in the US (in Turkish) - March 17, 2012
The Iranian Question in US-Israeli Relations (in Turkish) - March 17, 2012
Elections in the US (in Turkish) - March 7, 2012
The Foreign Policy of Republicans (in Turkish) - January 20, 2012
The Interviews of Father and Son Assads - December, 2011
Turkish-US relations 2.0? - December, 2011
History, Politics and Foreign Policy in Turkey - November, 2011
Understanding Foreign Policy Change: Changing Foreign Policy of Turkey during the AK Party Government, History, Politics and Foreign Policy in Turkey - November, 2011
US pivot to Asia and Turkey - November, 2011
Longest Two Years of Uyghurs - October, 2011
What has changed in Turkish-Israeli Relations since 1996? - October, 2011
Why the transition in Libya delayed? - September, 2011
The Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Middle East. - July, 2011
Turkey’s Foreign Policy After the Elections, Foreign Policy - June 16, 2011
Collaborator: Nuh Yilmaz
Tarım mumyaları-Çin tezlerini sarsan 3 bin yıllık Dolan güzeli Uygur Türklerinin yeni idolü - February, 2011
The Defenders of the Faith by James Reston, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - December, 2010
Samuel Huntington and Political Science, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - October, 2010
Reading Middle East in the United States, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - April, 2010
AK Party’s Foreign Policy: Is Turkey Turning Away from the West, Insight Turkey - April, 2010
The Grand Turk: The Conqueror of Constantinople by John Freely, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - January, 2010
Winning Turkey: How America, Europe and Turkey Can Review a Fading Partnership by Omer Taspinar, Insight Turkey - January, 2010
Iraq, Turkey and the US , Insight Turkey - 2009
The Kemalism in Turkish Politics: Republican People’s Party’s Nationalism and Secularism by Sinan Ciddi, Middle East Policy - July, 2009
Erol Gungor ve Simdiki Zaman Turk Milliyetciligi (Erol Gungor and Contemporary Turkish Nationalism) - 2008
Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey: Kemalist Identity in Transition by Omer Taspinar, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - 2008
Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey edited by Umit Cizre, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - October, 2008
Tormented Histories: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey by Umut Ozkirimli, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - August, 2008
Turkish Military and Society, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - August, 2008
The New Turkish Republic by Graham Fuller, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - July, 2008
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - March, 2008
Violence in the Middle East: From the Political Struggle to Self-Sacrifice by Hamit Bozarslan, International Journal of Middle East Studies - November, 2006
State of Denial: Bush and the Iraq War by Bob Woodward, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - October 20, 2006
An Ottoman Sultan in Lehistan by Halime Dogru, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - October 13, 2006
Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey by Soner Cagaptay, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - September 29, 2006
Religion, Modernity and Society in Turkey, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - September 4, 2006
Bernard Lewis and the Middle Eastern Studies in the United States, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - August 8, 2006
The Emergence of a New Turkey: Democracy and the AK Party by Hakan Yavuz, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - August 7, 2006
Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire by Caroline Finkley, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - July 5, 2006
Manliness by Harvey Mansfield, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - June 6, 2006
Turks in World History by Carther Findley, Kitap Zamani (in Turkish) - May, 2006
Islam in Modern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi Kitap Zamani - May 1, 2006
Social Movements and Politics in the Middle East by Asef Bayat, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - March 17, 2006
Religion and Society in Modernization of Ottoman Empire by Esra Yakut, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - March 3, 2006
Serif Mardin’e Armagan by Ahmet Oncu and Orhan Tekelioglu, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - February 2, 2006
Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey by Omer Taspinar, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - January 6, 2006
Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gulen Movement edited by M. Hakan Yavuz, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs - 2005
Ethnic Media and Politics: The Case of the Use of the Internet by Uyghur Diaspora, First Monday: Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet - 2005
Ethnic Conflict in Turkey by Eric Jan Zurcher, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - November 11, 2005
Islamic Political Identity in Turkey by Hakan Yavuz, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - October 21, 2005
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, Radikal Kitap (in Turkish) - September 9, 2005
Education
Ph D, Political Science, Syracuse University
CERT, Civil Society and NGO, Syracuse University
CERT, Conflict Resolution , Syracuse University
CERT, Middle Eastern Studies, Syracuse University
MA, Political Science, Syracuse University
MA, International Affairs, Marquette University
BS, International Relations, Middle East Technical University