
Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Professor
(610)758-3384
University of Pennsylvania, Phila, Pa. Ph.D., Political Science, 1984.
University College, London, England. M.Sc., International Relations, 1976.
City University, London, England. B.Sc., Economics, 1975.
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Courses taught:
- IR 097 The U.S. National Security System
- IR 098 The Syrian Crisis
- IR 177 International Relations of Latin America
- IR 220 Globalization
- IR 296 The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences
- IR 344 International Politics of Oil
Publications :
OPINION PIECES
- "Clapper’s gag order could hurt intelligence analysts more than journalists", The Washington Post, May 4, 2014
- "Obama’s Ambassador nominees are a disservice to diplomacy", The Washington Post, February 6, 2014
- "The Trouble with Political Dynasties”, Los Angeles Times, January 9, 2014
- "Erdogan has sown seeds of opposition”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 2013
- “Turkey must lead the way on creating safe havens in Syria”, The National, May 13, 2013
- "The Apology Heard 'Round the World", The National Interest, April 2, 2013
- "Iraq's Great Divider", Los Angeles Times/Op-Ed, March 26, 2013
- “An old friendship leaves Turkey no choices on Syria,” The National, October 9, 2012
- “Why intruding on another Muslim country is ill-advised”, Washington Post, August 24, 2012
- "Brazil, Turkey Emerge as New Powers", Miami Herald, April 4, 2012
- "Syria in the Balance", Los Angeles Times/Op-Ed, March 30, 2012
- "Back to Bloodshed", Foreign Policy, October 21, 2011
- "The Turkish-Israeli Cold War", The National Interest, September 7, 2011
- Discussion About the Unrest In Turkey, Charlie Rose Show, June 11, 2013
- "The Road to Turkey's June Elections: Crisis, Strategies and Outcomes", Carnegie Endowment, May 9, 2011
- "Turkey's Neighborhood Troubles" , Los Angeles Times/Op-Ed, May 4, 2011
- "Turkey and the Arab Spring", Carnegie Endowment for Intl. Peace, April 26, 2011
- "Libya's Kadafi Looking for a Home", Los Angeles Times/Op-Ed, March 11, 2011
- "Turkey's silent crisis", Foreign Policy, August 31, 2010
- "Don't Blame Europe for Turkey's Moves away from the West," Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2010
- Recent press CNN, joins a C-SPAN panel, NPR and The New York Times
- "Turkey's Political Revolution" , Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2010
- "Two-Faced on Terrorism", Los Angeles Time, March 11, 2006
- "When In Iraq, Do As the Grand Ayatollah Does", Los Angeles Times, February 29, 2004
- "Blasts Won't Shatter Turkey's Ties to West", Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2003
- "Two Countries and One Continent's Future", New York Times, December 2, 2002
- "Armenia and Turkey: The truce in need of a rescue", Los Angeles Times, February 5, 2010
- "What Worked in Kabul Won't in Baghdad", The Washington Post
- "Why No U.S. President will Bomb Iran", The National Interest, January 27, 2010
- "Saddam's Time Is Up", Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2001
- "Getting Even With Saddam Hussein", Los Angeles Times
- "Peace Still Has A Chance", Los Angeles Times
- "Turkey's Judicial Coup D'etat", Newsweek, April 14, 2008
- "Deciphering Turkey's Elections, World Policy Journal, Fall 2007
- "Turkey-Syria Clashes Reflect Greater Frustration", PBS NewsHour, October 4, 2012
- "The Escalating Conflict Between Turkey and Iraq", NPR, October 29, 2007
- "A Missed Moment In Iraq", Washington Post, October 27, 2007
- Video Interview with H. Barkey, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, July 7, 2007
Recent publications:
- “Spinoff: The Syrian Crisis and the Future of Iraq,” American Interest December 26, 2012.
- “Turkey and Iraq: The Making of a Partnership,” Turkish Studies, 12:4, 663-674, (December 2011).
- “Turkish–Iranian Competition after the Arab Spring,” Survival, Volume 54:6, 2012.
- “The Evolution of Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East,” TESEV July 2012.
- “A Transformed Relationship: Turkey and Iraq,” in Henri Barkey, Phebe Marr and Scott Lasensky, eds. Iraq, Its Neighbors and the United States, (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2011).
- “The Broken Triangle: How the U.S.-Israeli-Turkey Relationship got Unglued,” in William B. Quandt (ed.) Troubled Alliance: The United States, Turkey and Israel in the Middle East (Virginia: Just World Press, 2011).Internazionali, October 2011.
- “Coordinating Responses to the 2011 Arab Revolt: Turkey and the Transatlantic Alliance,” Mediterranean Paper Series, German Marshall Fund and Instituto Affari Internazionali, October 2011.
- “Turkish Foreign Policy and the Middle East,” Sciences-PO, CERI Strategic papers, September 2011.
- "Iran and Turkey," in The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and U.S. Policy, (Washington, DC: USIP, 2010).
- "Turkey's Moment of Inflection," Survival, June-July 20101.
- "Turkey and the Great Powers", in Celia Kerslake, Kerem Öktem and Philip Robins (eds.) Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity: Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century (U.K., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
- "Turkey‘s Transformers" (Foreign Affairs Volume 88, No. 6 (November/December 2009) (with Morton Abramowitz).
- “Turkey’s Perspectives on Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament,” in Barry Blechman (ed.) Unblocking the Road to Zero (Washington, DC. Stimson Center, 2009).
- Preventing Conflict over Kurdistan (Monograph, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 2009).
- “Effect of US policy in the Middle East on EU-Turkey relations,” International Spectator Volume 43, Issue 4 (December 2008).
- “Kurdistandoff,” National Interest 90 (July/August 2007).
- “Notes from a Funeral,” American Interest (July/August 2007).
- “Turkey and the PKK: A Pyrrhic Victory?” in Robert Art and Louise Richardson (eds.) Democracy and Counterterrorism Lessons from the Past (USIP Press, 2007).
- “Iraqi Kurds and the Future of Iraq,” Middle East Policy 12:4 (December 2005). with Ellen Laipson.
- “Turkey and Iraq: The Perils (and Prospects) of Proximity,” U.S. Institute Special Report #141, July 2005.
- "Cyprus: The Predictable Crisis," The National Interest 66 (Winter 2001/2) with Philip H. Gordon.
- "The Middle East after the Cold War," in Oles Smolansky (ed.) The Lost Equilibrium: International Relations in the Post-Soviet Era (Bethelehem:; Lehigh University Press, 2001).
- "Hemmed in by Circumstances: Turkey and Iraq since the Gulf War," Middle East Policy 7:4 (October 2000).
- "The Struggles of a 'Strong' State," Journal of International Affairs 54: 1 (Fall 2000).
- "Les Occidentaux apportent un soutien mesuré aux Kurdes," Confluences Méditerranée (Paris) 34 (Summer 2000).
Books:
- Iraq, Its Neighbors and the United States, co-edited with Phebe Marr and Scott Lasensky, (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2011).
- Preventing Conflict over Kurdistan (Monograph, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 2009).
- European Responses to Globalization: Resistance, Adaptation and Alternatives co-edited with Janet Laible (Oxford: Elseiver, 2006
- Turkey's Kurdish Question with Graham E. Fuller (Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).
- Reluctant Neighbor: Turkey's Role in the Middle East (ed.) (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1996).
- The Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East (ed.) (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992).
- The State and the Industrialization Crisis in Turkey (Boulder: Westview Press, 1990).
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