MUSTAFA KİBAROĞLU

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kibaroglu is a faculty member in the Political Science and International Relations Department at MEF University in Istanbul since 2014. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences from 2017 to 2024. Prof. Kibaroglu has taught courses on “Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation”, ‘Middle Eastern Security”, and “Turkish Foreign Policy” in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara (1997-2011). Prof. Kibaroglu has been a Research Fellow at UNIDIR in Geneva (1995); IAEA Fellow at the University of Southampton (1996); Post-doctoral Fellow at the Monterey Institute in California (1996/97); and a Sabbatical Fellow at the Belfer Center of Harvard University (2004/05). Prof. Kibaroglu is a Council Member of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner-organization Pugwash since 2007. He served as Academic Advisor of the NATO Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (2006-2013), and the Roketsan Missile Industries (2016-2019). Prof. Kibaroglu is the co-author of Global Security Watch – Turkey (2009) by Praegers in the U.S., and the co-editor of Defence Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism (2010), Bioterrorism: Threats and Deterrents (2010), Responses to Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism (2011), Defence Against Terrorism (2011), and Analysis and Strategies to Counter the Terrorism Threat (2011) by IOS Press in the Netherlands. Prof. Kibaroglu is also the author and co-author of chapters in books and articles in journals, such as Security Dialogue, Nonproliferation Review, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Middle East Quarterly, Middle East Journal, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Middle Eastern Studies, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, and Middle East Policy. Prof. Kibaroglu is fluent in French and English, and he holds a Ph.D. (1996) from the International Relations Department at Bilkent University.

International security, Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Disarmament, Arms control, Middle East, International terrorism, NATO, Cyprus problem, Turkish foreign policy