Ömer Taşpınar Session Overview

Ömer Taşpınar is a Professor of Security Studies at the National War College (part of National Defense University) in Washington DC.  He also teaches at the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS (School of Advanced International Studies). His areas of expertise include Turkey, Kurdish nationalism, Political Islam, American Foreign Policy, the Middle East, the European Union, and Muslims in Europe. He is the author of four books: Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam: Kemalist Identity in Transition (Routledge, 2005); Wining Turkey: How the EU and the US can Restore a Fading Partnership (with Philip Gordon, Brookings, 2008); What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East: Why Islam is not the Problem (I.B. Tauris, 2020); The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy (with Birol Baskan, Sunny Press, 2021).