Suha Bolukbasi is Professor of International Relations at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. He completed his MA and PhD in the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia. He was Visiting Professor at the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University (1994-96), Residential Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2000-2001), and Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics, Oberlin College (2005-2006).