Prof Bulent Gokay

Politics and International Relations , Keele University

Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations and Head of the School for Politics and International Relations at Keele University, Chair of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies and Managing Editor of Global Faultlines.

He joined Keele University in 1996 from Wolfson College, Cambridge, where he had been a postdoctoral Research Fellow for the previous three years. Before coming to Keele, he taught at the Birkbeck College, London, the University of North London, and the University of Cambridge. He is the founder of Global Faultlines, co-founder of the Keele Southeast Europe Unit and co-founder of the Forum for Sport in Global Politics and Society.

He is widely published and his current research interests are: Soviet foreign policy, 1920s and 1930s, contemporary Turkish political history, the decline and disintegration of state socialist systems in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, oil politics and energy security in Eurasia, and global political economy – the decline of the West.