Assistant Professor of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
My interest in critical approaches to security goes back to my undergraduate years at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (1989-1993). The appeal of critical approaches for me could partly be explained by my aversion to all that was presented under the title Security Studies when I was an undergraduate student. What was on offer under the label security was nuclear strategy and, in par...
Associate Professor of History, Regents' Lecturer, University of New Mexico
Intellectual journeys are never simple and they often parallel personal experiences, as well as historical twists of fate. My path to researching and writing about twentieth-century Yugoslavia and its politics and society embraces all of these. Love of politics, the historical, ethnic, and religious diversity of the Balkans, and the prospect of living and researching in a country with warm weather...
Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Boyer is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. From August 2009 – December 2011, Mr. Boyer served in the Obama administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. His work in the bureau focused on Western Europe, public diplomacy, and public aff...