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Dr Aybet referred many times in new House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Report:'UK-Turkey Relations and Turkey's Regional Role', published 4 April 2012. The report cited my Turkish foreign policy in 'three spheres' argument and also includes my written and oral evidence to the Committee. To read the full pdf report click here.

Op Ed article 10 April 2012, 'Syria:Who is on the Right Side of History?'. Published online Today's Zaman 9/4/2012, hardcopy newspaper 10/4/2012. (Please note opening the acronym 'CSCE' as 'Commission' not 'Conference' is an editorial error on the part of the newspaper, not mine.)

On the 11th of April I will be giving a talk at the New Direction — The Foundation for European in Brussels on "Turkey at a Crossroads-Turkey's Alliances and New Strategic Outlook". For full event information click here.

I guest edited the Spring 2012 issue of 'Perceptions', the quarterly journal of the Strategic Research Centre, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ankara. I also contributed an article to this issue entitled The Evolution of NATO’s Three Phases and Turkey’s Transatlantic Relationship . Also in this issue are contributions from the NATO Secretary General and the Turkish Foreign Minister as well as my colleagues who contributed to 'NATO in Search of a Vision'. The special issue will be distributed at the NATO summit in Chicago. For the entire issue in pdf click here.

My chapter with Joe Hogler: "US Russia Relations: Is there enough common ground for a new phase?" has been published in the new edited volume Russia and European Security by Roger Kanet and Maria Raquel Freire. For book details please click here.

Radio: Interview given to BBC World Service World Today programme on Turkey and Syria, 9 February 2012. Listen here.

My co authored article with Florian Bieber in Europe Asia Studies published December 2011. "From Dayton to Brussels: The Impact of EU and NATO Conditionality on State Building in Bosnia and Hercegovina". The article, is an output of our British Academy project. This special issue is now forthcoming as an edited book from Routledge.

I gave written and oral evidence on Turkish foreign policy and Turkey's regional role to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. ( October and November 2011). For the written evidence see here and for the oral evidence session see here.

I gave a talk on Turkey and NATO Missile Defence at the Annual Missile Defense Conference, Atlantic Council, Washington DC, 18 October 2011. Audio recordings and transcript available here.

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Gülnur Aybet's main areas of expertise are transatlantic relations, with special reference to NATO and the EU, Turkish politics and foreign policy and state building and post conflict reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury and a Visiting Professor at the Izmir University of Economics in Turkey. From April to May 2010 she worked as a Public Policy Scholar and from April 2009 to September 2009 as a Southeast Europe Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. Her project for the Wilson Center is entitled: The Transformation of Modern Turkey and its Transatlantic Relationship. For event summaries of Dr Aybet's presentations at the Wilson Center, click here and here.
She has previously held visiting scholarships at the Centre for Transatlantic Relations, Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John's Hopkins University, Washington DC (http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/) and at St Antony's College, Oxford University, where she is also a Senior Associate Member of the College. (http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk.) Previous academic posts include Bilkent University Ankara, where she was an Assistant Professor and the University of Nottingham, where she was a lecturer. She has also been a visiting faculty member at Sabanci and Bilgi Universities in Istanbul and the NATO Defense College at Rome.

Dr Aybet has held grants from the British Academy as well as the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between May 2007- September2009 she was Principal Investigator of a British Academy project entitled:"From Peace to State Building: An Assessment of EU and NATO Conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina'. This project commenced with the award of a British Academy Large Grant. Dr Florian Bieber was Co Investigator of this project. More information about the project, including workshop reports, past and future events can be found on: http://intbosnia.wordpress.com.
Dr Aybet's policy background includes previous posts at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI). She has also given evidence to the House of Commons and Lords Committees on security issues.

She is the author of A European Security Architecture After the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy (Macmillan, 2000), and The Dynamics of European Security Co-operation, 1945-1991 (Macmillan, 1997, 2001). She is co-author with Rebecca Moore of NATO In Search of a Vision (Georgetown University Press, 2010).

Dr Aybet will be willing to supervise PhD students with an interest in state building in the Western Balkans, Turkish Foreign Policy, legitimacy of international institutions and the Reconstruction of Islamic identity in the Balkans.
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(1) Books:
NATO in Search of a Vision (edited with Rebecca Moore) (Georgetown University Press, 2010)
A European Security Architecture After the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy (New York: St Martin's, 2000)
The Dynamics of European Security Cooperation, 1945-1991 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)

(2) Articles and Book Chapters:

Co authored article with Florian Bieber in Europe Asia Studies published December 2011. "From Dayton to Brussels: The Impact of EU and NATO Conditionality on State Building in Bosnia and Hercegovina". The article, an output of our British Academy project appeared in this special issue which is now forthcoming as an edited book from Routledge.

Co authored chapter with Joe Hogler"US-RUssia Relations: Is there Enough Common Ground for a New Phase?" in Russia and European Security, edited by Roger Kanet and Maria Raquel Freire, Republic of Letters Publishing, 2012, ISBN 9789089790996, pp.127-147.

'Constitutional Overhaul?' co authored with Filiz Baskan, in World Today, July 2011. Read here.

'NATO conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Defense Reform and State BuildingProblems of Post Communism, Sept/Oct 2010, Vol.57,No.5,pp.20-34. Read full article here.

'The NATO Strategic Concept Revisited: Grand Strategy and Emerging Issues' in Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca Moore, (eds), NATO in Search of a Vision, Georgetown University Press,2010,ISBN: 978-1-58901-630-9

'Introduction: Missions in Search of a Vision'co-authored with Rebecca Moore in Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca Moore, (eds), NATO in Search of a Vision, Georgetown University Press, 2010

''Conclusion: Looking Foward' co-authored with Rebecca Moore in Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca Moore, (eds), NATO in Search of a Vision, Georgetown University Press, 2010

‘Turkey Between the Transatlantic Partnership’ in Roger Kanet (ed.) The United States and Europe in the Changing World, Republic of Letters, Dordrecht, December 2009. ISBN: 978-90-8979-009-5, pp. 141-162.

'Fault Lines or Integration:The EU Impact on Greek-Turkish Relations' in O. Anastasakis, K. Nicolaidis and K. Oktem (eds) Under the Long Shadow of Europe: Greeks and Turks in the Era of Post-Nationalism Brill, 2009.

'The Balkans to Turkey and the Northern Tier: Reactions to U.S. Hegemony or a Changing Global Order?' in Roger Kanet and Edward Kolodziej (eds), From Superpower to Beseiged Global Power: Restoring World Order After the Failure of the Bush Doctrine. Georgia University Press, May 2008.See: http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/0820329770.html

'The European Security and Defence Policy: Capabilities and Institutions' in Ioannis Stivachtis(ed.), The State of European Integration, Ashgate, November 2007.

'Turkey and the EU After the First Year of Negotiations: Reconciling Internal and External Policy Challenges', Security Dialogue, (PRIO, Oslo), Vol. 37, No.4,December 2006, ISSN: 0967-0106, pp 343-361

'Turkey's Long and Winding Road to the EU: Implications for the Balkans', Vol. 8, No.1, April 2006, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans ISSN: 1461-3190, pp 65-84

'Turkey and the Transatlantic Security Community; Foreign Policy, (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), February 2005, (Turkish edition), ISSN: 0015-7228, pp 26-32

‘Towards a New Transatlantic Consensus', NATO Review, Autumn 2004 http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2004/issue3/english/art1.html

‘ESDP and New Security Challenges: How the Petersberg Tasks have Come a Long Way', Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol.3, No 1, Summer 2004, ISSN: 13035754, pp 147-158

‘Transformations in Security and Identity after the Cold War: Turkey's Problematic Relationship with Europe' (co-authored with Meltem Muftuler-Bac), International Journal, Vol.55, No 4, Autumn 2000, ISSN 0020-7020, pp 567-582

‘NATO's New Missions', Perceptions, (Strategic Research Centre, Ankara), Vol IV, No 1, March-May 1999, ISSN: 1300-8641-0-9, pp 65-75. http://www.sam.gov.tr/perceptions/Volume4/March-May1999/aybet.PDF

‘Turkey and European Institutions' International Spectator, (Istituto Affari Internazionali IAI, Rome), Volume 34, No 1, January-March 1999, ISSN: 0393-2729, pp 103-110

OPEDS REPORTS AND POLICY PAPERS:

OpEd on Turkey and the Libyan Intervention, 24 March 2011, Today's Zaman 'Turkey and the Ambivalent, Reluctant Military Intervention over Libya'.

OpEd on Turkey's micro and macro roles in the Middle East and EU Accession, 10 February 2011, Today's Zaman 'Turkey's Rising Role in the Middle East and its Foundering EU Accession: A Star Crossed Collision?'.

OpEd on NATO's new Strategic Concept in Today's Zaman, 25 November 2010 . 'A Tale of One Summit: Nato's New Strategic Concept'.

OpEd on NATO, Missile Defence and Turkey in Today's Zaman, 22 November 2010 .'Much Ado About Nothing? NATO, Turkey and One Missile Defence Shield'.

OpEd analysing linkage between internal and external transformation in Turkey in Today's Zaman, 27 October 2010. 'Does Peace Abroad Mean Democracy at Home?'

Contribution to R.U.S.I. Occasional Paper,'Counter-Terrorism, Political Reform and EU Conditionality'. October 2009. To read click here .

OpEd analysing ECFR report on a European Security Order, in Hurriyet Daily News,18 October 2010. "Visions and Illusions of a New European Security Order" Click here.

"Turkey's Energy Politics: Neither East Nor West" in Winter 2009 issue of Private View,the international review of TUSIAD, to read click here.

OpEd on Turkish Israeli relations, Britain's role and wider regional repercussions in Hurriyet Daily News, 12 July 2010. To read article click here.

Op Ed: 'Behind the Rhetoric: Why Turkey Wants to Keep Iran Engaged' in Todays Zaman, 29 October 2009. To read click here.

OpEd with Florian Bieber in PostGlobal at Washington Post and Newsweek,Biden's Unfinished Balkan Business,27 May 2009.

‘NATO Summit In Latvia ' The Washington Times, 8 November 2006 washington times oped

'Prensip Baska, Cikar Baska' Radikal 3 March 2003, see Radikal Article

NATO's Developing Role in Collective Security", Ministry of Foreign Affairs Center for Strategic Research, SAM Papers, No 4/99, Ankara, June 1999

Selected Press and Media:

Television:Interview on Al Jazeera English. Discussing Turkey, EU and Cyprus. 19 September 2011. Watch here.

Television:Interview on BBC World News, Lucy Hawking, The Hub programme. Discussing PM Erdogan visit to Egypt. 13 September 2011 Watch here.

Television:Interview on BBC World News, Nik Gowing, The Hub programme. Discussing Turkish-Israeli relations.2 September 2011 Watch here.

Television:Interview on Al Jazeera English, 26 August 2011. Discussing post conflict Libya and role of NATO. Watch here.

Radio:Interview on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, 11 June 2011. Discussing Turkish elections. Listen on BBC iplayer( available till 18 June, scroll to 1.52) here. Alternatively listen to uploaded mp3 format here.

Television:Interview on Al Jazeera English, 17 May 2011. Discussing present state of NATO intervention in Libya. Watch here.

Television:Interview on Mishal Husain's Impact programme on BBC World News, 6 April 2011. Discussing Turkish foreign policy and Libyan crisis. Watch here.

Television:Guest on Russia Today's CrossTalk programme about Libya military intervention, legality and military issues.30 March 2011. Watch here.

Television:Interview on Al Jazeera on NATO's take over of Libya operation on 28 March 2011. Watch here.

ECFR's commentary about my Today's Zaman article on Libya and Turkey, focusing on wider repercussions for Atlantic Alliance. Turkey,Libya and Unintended Consequences.

Television: live interview on Al Jazeera, 18 March 2011. Just after UNSCR and minutes after ceasefire announcement. Watch: here.

Podcast: for European Council on Foreign Relations, 20 December 2010 on Turkey, NATO relations and Turkey-EU post NATO Lisbon summit. To listen click here.

Television: Guest appearance on Al Jazeera's Empire programme, analysing the NATO summit. First broadcast 24 November 2010, Watch video here.

Interview live on BBC World News Television, on Turkish-British foreign ministers meeting and Turkish-Israeli relations on 8 July 2010.

Interview about Turkish foreign policy and Turkey's internal politics for the Dutch daily, Nederlands Dagblad on the 20th of March. To read full interview click here.

Interview on 4 March 2010, BBC World News Television and World News Today BBC4. Click here.

Gulnur Aybet mentioned in British Academy's evaluation of research grants in 2009:

"During 2008/09, 727 grant reports were assessed..Many award-holders make a wider impact beyond academia. For example, Dr Gülnur Aybet, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent and current holder of an Academy Larger Research Grant as Principal Investigator on a project on NATO and EU-State Building in Bosnia, was recently identified in a Sunday Times article as one of the most powerful Muslim women in Britain" To see link click here.

Television: Analysing NATO summit live on Al Jazeera English News 19 November 2010. Watch video here.

Interview on 6News TV (in English), 8 December 2009 on Prime Minister Erdogan's visit to the USA. Video to be uploaded here soon

Interview on BBC Newshour special on Turkish foreign policy, 28 November 2009. To listen click here and scroll to 32.46 for start of programme and to 42.51 for the section where I am interviewed.

Interview on BBC World Today on Turkish PMs visit to Iran, 26 October 2009,click here and here for later version.

Interview BBC World Service Turkish and NTV radyo (in Turkish) on Erdogan's visit to Iran. 26 October 2009. click here and scroll to 5.00 .

Interview on Turkish-Armenian accords, BBC World Service, Newshour. 10 October 2009. Listen to podcast here. (at 06.52)

Interview on NATO-Russia relations, 15 July 2009, Voice of America/NTV(Turkish). For Podcast click here.

Interview on AKP Government's Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East and Turkey's place in the transatlantic partnership. 17 July 2009. Voice of America and TGRT Haber TV (in Turkish). Listen to podcast here.

Interview on BBC World News on President Obama's visit to Turkey, watch on youtube.

Interview on US radio show 'The TakeAway' broadcast by WNYC with BBC America and the New York Times 6 April 2009. On President Obama's visit to Turkey. Listen to podcast.

Interview on BBC World Service NewsHour, 6 April 2009, on President Obama's visit to Turkey and the US's changing relationship with the Islamic world. Listen to podcast.

BBC Radio 4 'Woman's Hour', discussing political crisis in Turkey, 16 July 2008, listen to podcast

Interview on Frost over the World Al Jazeera 26 October 2007. Watch on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H76F5vA2Ss

PUBLIC TALKS AND LECTURES

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I spoke at two fringe events at the Conservative Party Conference, 3 October 2011. For events details please see: here and here.

Book discussion of NATO in Search of a Vision with Jamie Shea at NATO HQ on 2nd June 2010. See NATO PRESS RELEASE, WATCH VIDEO and see PHOTO GALLERY here.

Guest speaker at Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC at international conference on The Evolution of NATO: The 2010 Strategic Concept and Beyond on the 21st of May 2010. WATCH VIDEO HERE . For further information on the conference click here.

Graduation Commencement Speaker at Marymount International School, London, 29 May 2010.

Presentation of NATO in Search of a Vision at the Transatlantic Academy, German Marshall Fund, Washington DC, 26 May 2010.

Talk at House of Lords in February 2010 on a panel about Women, Violence and Terrorism. WATCH VIDEO HERE.

Book discussion on NATO in Search of a Vision with Dan Hamilton, (Director of Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University) at the Woodrow Wilson Center,Washington DC on 20 April 2010. For an event summary, click here.

I am a member of the Frontline Club

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I am a member of Women in International Security (WIIS):

http://wiis.georgetown.edu

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

PO916 International Security in a Changing World

Director of MA in International Security and the Politics of Terrror
Director of BA in Conflict, Peace and Security
Departmental Representative for Humanitarian Net

NATO in Search of a Vision Edited by Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca Moore. Foreword by Lawrence Freedman (Georgetown University Press, 2010)

Endorsements:
for endorsements see Georgetown UP online here.
Contents and Contributors:.click here for contents.
Georgetown University Press Spring 2010 Catalogue:scroll to page 3 for NATO in Search of a Vision.

A European Security Architecture After the Cold War: questions of legitimacy (Macmillan: Basingstoke, New York: St Martin's, 2000)

Reviews:
Stanley Hoffman, Foreign Affairs
Charles G Cogan, Political Science Quarterly
Roger Kanet, Osteuropa

The Dynamics of European Security Cooperation, 1945-1991 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)

Reviews:
David Gowland, European History Quarterly
Ralph Dietl, Cold War History