Mustafa Aydin is a Turkish

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 Professor of International Relations

International relations

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. He is currently the Rector

Rector

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 of Kadir Has University

Kadir Has University

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, Istanbul, and the President of the International Relations Council (UIK) of Turkey. He is also Co-Coordinator of the International Commission on the Black Sea

Black Sea

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, and Board Member of the strategic research centers of both the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Turkish Armed Forces.

He was Head of the Department of International Relations at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

TOBB University of Economics and Technology is a private university in Turkey, which was founded by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey on July 1, 2003 in Ankara.- Academic Units :Faculties and Departments:* Faculty of Engineering...

; Director of International Policy Research Institute (TEPAV-IPRI) of Ankara

Ankara

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; member of the Economy and Foreign Policy Study Group of the President’s Office; Deputy Chairperson of the International Commission of Eminent Persons on the Caucasus and Caspian (2007); Alexander S. Onassis Fellow at the University of Athens (2003); Research Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris (2003); Fulbright Scholar

Fulbright Program

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 at the JFK School of Government

John F. Kennedy School of Government

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, Harvard University (2002); and UNESCO Fellow at the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies, UK (1999).

Works

His recent work includes:

• Central Asia in Global Politics (in Turkish, 2004)
• Europe’s Next Shore
• Black Sea After the Enlargement (2004)
• Turkish Foreign Policy
• Framework and Analysis (2005)
• International Security Today
• Understanding Change and Debating Security (ed. with K. Ifantis, 2006)
• Turkish Foreign and Security Policy (ed. 2006)
• Regional In/security: Redefining Threats and Responses (ed. 2007)
• Turkey’s Eurasian Adventure (in Turkish, 2008)