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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ceren Uysal Oğuz graduated from Marmara University’s English Language International Relations Department in 1996. She completed two master’s degrees in European Union studies at Marmara University’s European Community Institute, followed by a Jean Monnet Scholarship at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Post Graduate School of Economics…

Assoc. Prof. Dr. İnan Rüma works at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Department of International Relations. He earned his academic degrees from Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) and Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He has worked for various periods in OSCE missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. His research focuses on Political Economy,…

Muhammed Onur Çöpoğlu completed his undergraduate education at Gazi University, his master’s degree at Karadeniz Technical University, and his doctorate at the Middle East Technical University (METU) Department of International Relations. His work focuses on environmental security, critical security studies, and vernacular security approaches. He is currently working as a…

The #SecureBlackSea Project Coordination Meeting was held on 16–17 January 2026 in Vienna within the framework of the project Revisiting the Regional Cooperation Structure in the Wider Black Sea: Security Building Through NATO. The meeting brought together the core project team to review the project’s overall progress and to align analytical and operational components for the…

Senem ATVUR graduated from Galatasaray University’s Department of International Relations in 2004. She completed her master’s degree in 2008 and her doctorate in 2012 at Akdeniz University’s Department of Public Administration. Her doctoral thesis focused on the impact of global water policies at the local level and the social movements…

Dr. Nil Dikmengil has been working as a research assistant at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Izmir University of Economics since 2021 and she is one of the coordinators of the Defence and Security Technologies Research Hub. She holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Galatasaray,…

Çağla Vural is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Akdeniz University under the TÜBİTAK 2218 program. Her research focuses on environmental security, climate policies, theories of international relations, and the political impacts of ecological risks. She specifically examines the consequences of environmental threats on security perceptions, regional stability, and international cooperation.…

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Başar Baysal is a faculty member at the Department of American Studies, Institute of Regional Studies, Ankara University of Social Sciences. He graduated from the Military Academy in 2007 and served in various duty stations including Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakır, Hakkâri, and Northern Iraq…