Ömer Taşpınar
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings Institution
Biography
Brookings Institution
Ömer Taşpınar is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe and an expert on Turkey, the European Union, Muslims in Europe, political Islam, the Middle East, and Kurdish nationalism. He is a professor at the National War College and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. 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 has taught 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.
Taşpınar has a doctorate and master's in European studies and international economics from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) and a bachelor's in political science from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He is the author of two books: "Political Islam and Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey" (Routledge, 2005) and "Fighting Radicalism with Human Development: Freedom, Education and Growth in the Islamic World" (Brookings Institution Press, 2006). Some of his recent publications include: "New Parameters in U.S.-German-Turkish Relations" (AICGS, February 2005); "The Anatomy of Anti-Americanism in Turkey" (Insight Turkey, July-August 2005); "Turkey’s European Quest" (Brookings Analysis Paper, September 2004); "Europe’s Muslim Street" (Foreign Policy, March-April 2003); "An Uneven Fit: The Turkish Model and the Arab World" (Brookings Analysis Paper, August 2003). Taşpınar is also a columnist for the Turkish daily Radikal and the Pakistan Daily Times. He has appeared on BBC World, CNN International, NBC, CNBC, CBS, and is a frequent commentator for Turkish Television. He speaks French, Italian, and Turkish (native).
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. (2001), M.A. (1995), Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
- B.A., Middle East Technical University, 1993
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