Ömer Taşpınar Session Overview

ÖMER TASPINAR is Professor of Security Studies at the National Defense University and an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS, where he focuses on Political Economy, Europe, the Middle East, and Turkey. Previously, he was a Senior Policy Fellow and Director of the Turkey Program at Brookings. Taspinar has held consulting positions at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights in Washington and at the strategic planning department of TOFAS-FIAT in Istanbul. He is the author ofKurdish Nationalism and Political Islam: Kemalist Identity in Transition;Winning Turkey: How the EU and the US can Restore a Fading Partnership(with Philip Gordon);What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East: Why Islam is not the Problem; andThe Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy (with Birol Baskan).