SEPADPod With Ali Bakir

Richardson Institute

On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Ali Bakir, assistant professor at Qatar University’s Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and nonresident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East programs. Ali has extensive experience of working within the foreign policy and security realms, consulting with senior officials, decisionmakers, and stakeholders for governmental, nongovernmental, and private-sector institutions. He is on twitter @alibakeer. On this episode, Simon and Ali talk about Ali’s childhood across the region, fusing the academic and the personal, the evolution of Turkish foreign policy, Turkish-Russian relations, the importance of an Islamic approach to IR theory and much more.