Research Turkey Public Conference
with Professor Hüseyin Bağcı:
“Turkish Foreign Policy: Challenges and Expectations”
22 January 2015, King’s College London
We are pleased to announce Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (Research Turkey)’s public conference entitled “Turkish Foreign Policy: Challenges and Expectations” in which Professor Hüseyin Bağcı of Middle East Technical University (METU) will give a talk. This event will take place on Thursday, 22 January 2015between 6:30p.m. and 8:00p.m. at S-2.23, Strand Campus, Kings College London, WC2R 2LS. Dr. Adnan Vatansever, Senior Lecturer, at King’s College London (KCL) will kindly chair the event.
You may find a short biography of Professor Hüseyin Bağcı and a short biography of the chair Dr. Adnan Vatansever below.
This event is free and open to public but it is a ticketed event that requires pre-registration. A ticket does not guarantee a seat. Please register via the Event Brite link below:
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Short Biography of Professor Hüseyin Bağcı
Hüseyin Bağcı is a Professor of International Relations, and the Chair of the Department of International Relations at Middle East Technical Universtiy in Ankara. In 1988, he received his Ph. D. in Political Science from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn. He was guest researcher at the German Society for Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Bonn, and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn and at the Landesverteidigungsakademie und Militarwissenshaftliches Büro des Bundesministeriums für Landesverteidigung in Vienna. He has published several books and large number of articles on Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish-German relations. Professor Bağcı is a famous TV and Radio Commentator in Turkey. Prof. Bağcı is a member of IISS in London and Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium. He is also Deputy Director of Foreign Policy Institute in Ankara. Prof. Bağcı has been visiting Professor at the University of Bonn in (Anna Maria Schimmel Professor) 2007, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2007 (Italy) and University of Lublin, 2008, (Poland). Prof. Bağcı is widely quoted also by national and international press.
Short Biography of Dr. Adnan Vatansever
Dr. Adnan Vatansever is a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, Russia Institute. His research focus includes: political economy of the energy sector in Eurasia; state-business relations in Russia; EU-Russian energy relations; Turkey’s role in energy markets, among others. His forthcoming book manuscript focuses on the political economy of oil in Russia.
Dr. Vatansever is the Associate Director of the European Center for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at King’s College London and a Senior Fellow at the Washington-based Atlantic Council. His prior experience includes the Carnegie Endowment, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, the World Bank and US Department of Energy. He has his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, and completed his B.A. at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
