Topic: One Belt, One Road: Sino-Turkish Relations Under a New Framework
Speaker:Prof. Hüseyin Bağcı (Professor and Chair of International Relations at Middle East Technical Universtiy in Ankara)
Time: Nov. 20, 2015 (Friday), 15:30-17:30
Venue: Room 3003, Xinjian Building
Chair: Prof. ZHANG Junhua (Director of SJTU’s Center for Israel Studies)
Hüseyin Bağcı is a Professor and of International Relations at Middle East Technical Universtiy in Ankara and the Chair of the department since October 2011. In 1988, he received his Ph. D. in Political Science from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn. He was guest researcher at the German Society for Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Bonn, and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn and at the Landesverteidigungsakademie und Militarwissenshaftliches Büro des Bundesministeriums für Landesverteidigung in Vienna. He has published several books and large number of articles on Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish-German relations. Prof. Bağcı is a famous TV and Radio Commentator in Turkey. Prof. Bağcı is a member of IISS in London and Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium. He is also Deputy Director of Foreign Policy Institute in Ankara. Prof. Bağcı has been visiting Professor at the University of Bonn as (Anna Maria Schimmel Professor) 2007, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2007 (Italy) and University of Lublin, 2008, (Poland) and 2010-2011 Humboldt university Berlin (Germany). Prof. Bağcı is widely quoted also by national and international press.Prof. Bagci is since 2001 the Chair of the International Relations Department.