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Dr Gülnur Aybet will be making a presentation on her research at the Wilson Center on Thursday 25th of June 2009. Turkey's Internal Reforms and Foreign Policy Choices:The Impact on U.S. and Euro-Atlantic Relations. For more information click 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.
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. Presently, since April 2009 to the end of August 2009 Dr Aybet is a SouthEast Europe Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washinton D.C. where she is working on her new book Turkey and the Transatlantic Bargain: Time to Renegotiate?. (Wilson Center SouthEast Europe Project) 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- June 2009 she is 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, forthcoming, 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. .
For more on the Frontline Club see: Gulnur Aybet is a member of Women in International Security (WIIS): Gulnur Aybet participated in a special WIIS panel at the ISA( International Studies Association) convention held in San Francisco in March 2008. For further details go to page 55 on ISA Programme
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: '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
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 http://riga.usembassy.gov/EN/site/Z/a_nato/archive/nato20061108_2 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
Postgraduate
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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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