作者簡介
Giray Saynur Bozkurt received her PhD from Marmara University, Istanbul in 2003. She is currently an Associate Professor of Political History in the Department of International Relations at Sakarya University, Turkey. Her research focuses in particular on the international relations, foreign and security policies of Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, the Middle East and the Black Sea Region, including Turkish-EU, Turkish-US and Turkish-Russian relations, as well as Balkan politics. Her broader interests cover regional conflicts, regionalism and foreign policy analysis. She is currently teaching courses on foreign security policy, diplomatic history, contemporary security threats and politics in Eurasia. She is the author of numerous published papers and several books and edited volumes. Her latest book is The Struggle for Power in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Geopolitics and the Great Game after the Cold War. She is a council member of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). She has been a visiting scholar in Russia and the United States, and is fluent in English, Russian and Turkish.
