Dr. Kibaroglu is the chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations and director of the Center for International Security Studies and Strategic Research at MEF University in Istanbul. He has held positions at Harvard's Belfer Center and the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Mr. Sazak is a researcher in the Century Foundation's foreign-policy program and a non-resident affiliate of the Center for International Security Studies and Strategic Research at MEF University in Istanbul.