Ali Bakır ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, IBN KHALDON CENTRE FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, QATAR UNIVERSITY

Ali Bakir is an Assistant Professor at Ibn Khaldon Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences at Qatar University. Bakir has over a decade of professional experience as a senior political analyst and consultant working with senior officials, decision-makers and stakeholders for governmental, non-governmental, and private sector institutions in several countries. He follows the geopolitical and security trends in the Middle East with a particular focus on Turkey’s foreign and defence policies, Turkey-Arab relations, foreign policies of GCC countries and Iran, great power politics, small states’ behaviour, and emerging unconventional risks and threats. He is a distinguished TV commentator on Turkish foreign policy and writes for several Arabic, English and Turkish platforms. Bakir has a PhD in political science and international relations. He recently contributed to a book chapter on the “Evolution of Turkey-Qatar Relations Amid a Growing Gulf Divide” published by Palgrave.