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Çağlar Kurç is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Abdullah Gül University and the founder of the Political Science Gaming Lab. His research on defense industries examines the underlying factors shaping states’ decisions to pursue defense industrialization and the broader…

Serhat Güvenç is currently Professor of International Relations and the Dean of Faculty of Economics, Administrative Sciences at Kadir Has University. Previously, he held faculty positions Istanbul Bilgi University (2000-2010) and lectured as visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago (2006), as adjunct professor of international relations…

Dr. İbrahim Mazlum is a faculty member at Marmara University, Department of Political Science and International Relations (English). His research focuses on global environmental politics, the relationship between environmental and security issues, climate change, transboundary waters in the Middle East, and environmental migration. He has various national and international scholarly…

Arda Mevlütoğlu holds a BSc degree in Astronautical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (2003) and master’s degrees in Science and Technology Policy Studies (2015) and International Relations (2022) from Middle East Technical University. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in Science and Technology Policy Studies from Middle East Technical University.…

Associate Professor Sitki Egeli is a military and security studies analyst teaching at Izmir University of Economics. Between 1991 and 1999, he served in Turkey’s Undersecretariat for Defense Industries as Director for Foreign Relations, responsible among other things of arms and export controls. 2000 through 2015, he was hired as…

Dr. S. Gulden Ayman is a professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul University. Her areas of interest include international security with its political, military, and psychological aspects, territorial problems, and radicalization. Her current studies focus on Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. She has written extensively…

Ece Doğa Ayan is an International Relations student at Kadir Has University with internship experience at Enerjisa Üretim and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. Her academic interests include politics and sustainability, and she is actively engaged in international affairs and youth-oriented initiatives.

Dr. Pavel K. Baev is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). He is also Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for the U.S. and Europe at the Brookings Institution (Washington D.C.), Senior Associate Researcher at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales(IFRI, Paris), and Senior Associate Research Fellow at…