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Blent Aras is assistant professor of International Relations at Fatih University (Turkey) where he is Chair of the Department and serves as Director of the Institute of Social Sciences. His latest books include: Emerging Black Sea Area: Politics, Security and Economy (2002); New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position (2001); Oil and Geopolitics in Caspian Sea Basin (1999); and The Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process and Turkey (1997).
Mustafa Aydm is associate professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University; as well as at the National Security Academy, Ankara. He was Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1998), and a Fulbright Scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2002). Among others, he is the author of Turkish Foreign Policy During the Gulf War (1998), Turkish Foreign Policy Towards the Year 2000 (1998, in Turkish); New Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus: Causes of Instability and Predicament (2000); and editor of the Turkish Yearbook of International Relations; the Review of International Affairs', and Ankara Papers, as well as Turkey at the Threshold of the 21st Century (1998); Greek-Turkish Relations in the 21st Century: Escaping from the Security Dilemma in the Aegean (forthcoming, with K. Ifantis); Turkish-American Relations; 200 Years of Divergence and Convergence (forthcoming, with . Erhan).
Tozun Bahcheli is professor of political science at King's College in London (Canada). His most recent book is Greek-Turkish relations and U.S. foreign policy (1997) and his Greek-Turkish Relations Since 1955 (1990), is regarded as the definitive analysis on the subject of Greek-Turkish relations. He is currently writing a book on ethnic conflict in Cyprus.
Tareq Y. Ismael is professor of political science at the University of Calgary (Canada). He is president of the International Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University (TRNC) and was a founder and past president of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES). Author of more than twenty-five books his most recent titles include: The Arab States of Africa: Contemporary Government and Politics (forthcoming); The Communist Movement in the Arab World (forthcoming); The International Relations of the Middle East in the 21st Century: Patterns of Continuity and Change (2001); Middle East Politics Today: Government and Civil Society (2001); and The Communist Movement in Syria and Lebanon (1997).
Eric L. Knudsen is professor of International Relations and Director of Research at the International Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University (TRNC). He is author of Great Britain, Constantinople and the Turkish Peace Treaty 1919-1922 (1987) and has contributed articles to the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Diplomacy and Statecraft. He is currently working on a book dealing with Syria and the Baath party.
Ozay Mehmet is professor of economics at The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). His most recent publications include Promoting a Fair Global Market Place: Is it Time for a Progressive Canadian Agenda? in Canadian Foreign Policy (forthcoming); Water Balances in the Eastern Mediterranean (edited with David Brooks, 2000); Westernizing the Third World, The Eurocentricity of Economic Development Theories 2nd edn. (1999) and Towards A Fair Global Labour Market: avoiding a new slave trade (with Errol Mendes and Robert Sinding, 1999).
Sabri Sayan is the executive director of the Institute of Turkish Studies and a research professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His most recent books include: Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey (with Metin Heper, 2002); Politics, Parties, and Elections in Turkey (with Yilmaz R. Esmer, 2002) and Turkey's New World: changing dynamics in Turkish foreign policy (with Alan Makovsky, 2002).
A. Seda Serdar is a researcher at the Centre for Eurasian Strategic Studies at the department of European Studies. She received her MA from the University of Amsterdam on Turkish-EU relations. Currently a PhD student at the Middle Eastern Technical University in Ankara, she is working on European integration and the concept of security within this process.
Oktay F. Tanrisever is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. His research interests cover Russian politics, Russian foreign policy and theories of international relations. He has published several articles, including The Battle for Chechnia: Russia Confronts Chechen Secessionism', METU Studies in Development (Autumn 2000), and The Impact of the 1994 Tatar-Russian Power Sharing Treaty on the Formation of Post-Soviet Tatar National Identity', Slovo (2001).
Dan Tschirgi is professor of political science at the American University in Cairo (Egypt). His most recent publications include: Origins and Development of the Arab-lsraeli Conflict (with Ann Mosely Lesch, 1998) and Development in the Age of Liberalization: Egypt and Mexico
