"Interview With a Doyenne of Int'l Relations
Damla Aras, on Turkey's EU bid, the Middle East and World Cup
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Since 9/11, international relations (IR) has become one of the sexiest subjects to study, with university courses worldwide massively oversubscribed and academic bookstores drowning in Dummies' Guides to Unilateral Geostrategy. Damla Aras is indubitably one of IR's sexiest practitioners.
Currently completing her second PhD at King's College in London, Aras is at the forefront of a new generation of international relations scholars, with particular expertise on the Middle East and southeast Europe. She has been interviewed on Al Jazeera as well as appearing on Turkish television stations NTV, Kanal A, TV8 and TRT and writing for mass circulation daily Milliyet; Aras's knowledge is so respected that she has even briefed the Turkish parliament on the delicate issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. "
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