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Turkey’s Geostrategic Context and Calculus | The Diplomat

Turkey’s Geostrategic Context and Calculus

Insights from Sinan Ulgen
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By Mercy A. Kuo
July 14, 2016

The Rebalance author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into the U.S. rebalance to Asia. This conversation with Sinan Ulgen – visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, founding partner of Istanbul Economics, a Turkish consulting firm that specializes in public and regulatory affairs, and chairman of the Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies, author of Governing Cyberspace: A Road Map for Transatlantic Leadership, Handbook of EU Negotiations, and The European Transformation of Modern Turkey with Kemal Derviş, and served in the Turkish Foreign Service in several capacities: in Ankara on the United Nations desk (1990–1992); in Brussels at the Turkish Permanent Delegation to the European Union (1992–1996); and at the Turkish embassy in Tripoli (1996) – is the 51st in “The Rebalance Insight Series.”

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