Mitat Celikpala

Dr. Mitat Çelikpala is Professor of International Relations and the Vice-Rector at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. He is a board member of the International Relations Council of Turkey, and the Managing Editor of the Journal of International Relations: Academic Journal. He previously served as an academic advisor to NATO’s Center of Excellence Defense Against Terrorism in Ankara (2009-2012), especially on regional security and critical infrastructure protection and was the board member of the Strategic Research and Study Center (SAREM), Turkish General Staff (2005-2011)

Academic Adviser to the Center for Strategic Research (SAM), Turkish Foreign Ministry (2002-2010) and the board member of the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), Istanbul Turkey (2019–2021). He was a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, UK (2005-2006).

He has written for several academic publications and contributed many conference papers on Turkish foreign policy, Turkish-Russian relations, Eurasianism, and Turkish geopolitics.