Ömer Taşpınar
Professor of Security Strategy, National War College
Ömer Taşpınar is a professor of security studies at the National Defense University National War College in Washington, DC. He also teaches at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. His areas of expertise include Turkey, Kurdish nationalism, political Islam, U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, the European Union, and Muslims in Europe. He is the author of four books: Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam: Kemalist Identity in Transition (Routledge, 2005); Winning Turkey: How America, Europe, and Turkey Can Revive a Fading Partnership (with Philip Gordon, Brookings, 2008); What the West Is Getting Wrong About the Middle East: Why Islam Is Not the Problem (I.B. Tauris, 2020); and The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy (with Birol Baskan, State University of New York Press, 2021). Taşpınar holds a PhD from SAIS and speaks French, Italian, and Turkish, his native language.
Analysis
Turkish-Saudi Convergence in the New Middle East
The emerging Turkish-Saudi entente, forged around shared interests and a common strategic vision, could shift the balance of power in the Middle East.
Turkey and the Arab Gulf States: A Dance with Uncertain Expectations
Turkey's evolving relations with the Arab Gulf, particularly with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, need to be analyzed in the larger regional context.
