Dr. Ömer Taşpınar is Professor of National Security Strategy at the U.S.

National War College and the Director of the Turkey Project at the Brookings Institution.

Dr. Taspinar was previously an Assistant Professor in the European Studies Department of the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAID), where he is still teaching as Adjunct Professor.

He has held consulting positions at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights in Washington, and at the Strategic Planning Department of TOFAS-FIAT in Istanbul.

The courses he is teaching at the National War College and SAIS are: “Islam and the West”; “Non-Military Elements of Statecraft”; “Turkey and its Neighbors” and “The Political Economy of Globalization”^[0]