Mustafa Aydın

Aydin Mustafa is a Turkish Professor of International Relations. He is the Rector of Kadir Has University, 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.
He was Head of the Department of International Relations at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology; Director of International Policy Research Institute (TEPAV-IPRI) of Ankara; member of the Economy and Foreign Policy Study Group of the President’s Office; Board Member of the strategic research centers of both the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Turkish Armed Forces; 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 at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University (2002); and UNESCO Fellow at the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies, UK (1999).

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)