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LATEST NEWS Forthcoming event announcement: Speaking about Turkey, the US, Europe and the future of transatlantic relations at the Turkey Institute, Netherlands on the 16th of March. For details click here. New book announcement: NATO in Search of a Vision, edited by Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca Moore, foreword by Lawrence Freedman (Georgetown University Press, February 2010). For endorsements and contents please click on links under the book cover in the right hand column. For a larger image, please click on book cover. We are very excited with the publication of this new volume which is already making a considerable impact. 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. Interview on 6News TV (in English), 8 December 2009 on Prime Minister Erdogan's visit to the USA. Video to be uploaded here soon. New Article: "Turkey's Energy Politics: Neither East Nor West" in Winter 2009 issue of Private View,the international review of TUSIAD, to read click here. 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.
Contribution to R.U.S.I. Occasional Paper,'Counter-Terrorism, Political Reform and EU Conditionality'. October 2009. To read click here.
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 lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury. From April 2009 to September 2009 Dr Aybet was a Southeast Europe Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. where she has been working on her new book 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 of £79,966. Dr Florian Bieber is Co Investigator of this project. The project was launched with a workshop co hosted by the International Security Programme at Chatham House,in November 2007. The last workshop took place in December 2008 in Sarajevo. More information about the project, including workshop reports, past and future events can be found on: http://integratingbosnia.org.uk//
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 the forthcoming edited volume NATO In Search of a Vision (Georgetown University Press, 2010). A special panel about the edited volume took place in 2009 at the ISA ( International Studies Association) conference in New York. See: ISA Programme, page 100. 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. .
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)
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"NATO's Developing Role in Collective Security", Ministry of Foreign Affairs Center for Strategic Research, SAM Papers, No 4/99, Ankara, June 1999 |
"Turkey's Foreign Policy and its Implications for the West: a Turkish perspective", RUSI Whitehall Paper Series, 1994 |
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(3) Articles and Book Chapters: '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, February 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, February 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, February 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
Op Ed: 'Behind the Rhetoric: Why Turkey Wants to Keep Iran Engaged' in Todays Zaman, 29 October 2009. To read click here. 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. OpEd with Florian Bieber in PostGlobal at Washington Post and Newsweek,Biden's Unfinished Balkan Business,27 May 2009. 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 ‘NATO Summit In Latvia ' The Washington Times, 8 November 2006 washington times oped Interview on Frost over the World Al Jazeera 26 October 2007. Watch on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H76F5vA2Ss 'Prensip Baska, Cikar Baska' Radikal 3 March 2003, see Radikal Article
I am a member of the Frontline Club I am a member of Women in International Security (WIIS):
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NATO in Search of a Vision Edited by Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca Moore. Foreword by Lawrence Freedman (Georgetown University Press, 2010)
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A European Security Architecture After the Cold War: questions of legitimacy (Macmillan:
Basingstoke, New York: St Martin's, 2000)
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The Dynamics of European Security Cooperation, 1945-1991 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
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