Dr. Kanat is the research director at the SETA Foundation in Washington, DC, and an assistant professor of political science at Penn State University, Erie. He is the author of A Tale of Four Augusts: Obama's Syria Policy (SETA Foundation, 2015). Dr. Ustun, executive director at SETA, is an assistant editor of Insight Turkey. He is the co-editor of Foreign Policy in Turkey: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (SETA Foundation, 2015).