Allies in Arms: Turkish-American Defense Relations

Kiliç Bugra Kanat is Associate professor of Political Science at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, USA. He is also the Research Director at the SETA Foundation, Washington. He was awarded the Outstanding Research Award and Council of Fellows Faculty Research Award at Penn State Behrend. Dr. Kanat’s writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, Insight Turkey, The Diplomat, Middle East Policy, Arab Studies Quarterly, Mediterranean Quarterly, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. He is the author of A Tale of Four Augusts: Obama’s Syria Policy, Vulnerable Partnership: The History of US-Turkey Strategic Relations and Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations: Making the Vulnerable Partnership.

Ozan Ahmet Çetin is an Assistant Professor at the Turkish National Defense University. He earned his PhD from American University’s School of International Service, where he specialized in technologies with national security implications. He also holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College London and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Bogaziçi University. Çetin’s research interests include international security, emerging technologies, defense policy, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.