2008_10_SRP_CornellKaraveli_Turkey

Authors’ Bio
Svante E. Cornell is Research Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus
Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Research and Policy Center
affiliated with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, Washington DC, and the
Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy (of which
he is a co-founder). He was educated at the Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, and received a Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies from
Uppsala University. He serves as part-time Associate Professor of
Government at Uppsala, and teaches on the Caucasus and the Turkic world
at SAIS. In 1999, he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the
Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences. His main areas of expertise are security
issues, broadly defined, and state-building in the Caucasus, Turkey and
Central Asia. He is the author of four books, including Small Nations and Great
Powers, the first comprehensive study of the post-Soviet Caucasus, and over sixty
academic and policy articles. He launched the Joint Center’s Turkey Initiative in
2006, as well as its biweekly electronic journal on Turkey, the Turkey Analyst.
(www.turkeyanalyst.org) His research on Turkey has been published in Orbis,
Middle Eastern Studies, Jane’s Intelligence Review, SAISphere, as well as several edited
books.
Halil Magnus Karaveli is Senior Fellow with the Turkey Initiative at the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center.
He was educated at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and worked for
sixteen years as an editorial page writer at several Swedish newspapers,
mainly Östgöta Correspondenten, while serving as a researcher and writer on
Turkish politics and society, as well as the relationship between the West
and Muslim world, including Islam in Europe. His most recent research area
is the role of secularism as a prerequisite for democracy. He has published
widely in leading Swedish dailies Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, the
Turkish press, and in edited volumes, as well as for the Swedish Institute for
International Affairs and European magazines including Europe’s World. He
is the managing editor of the Turkey Analyst, for which he writes a biweekly
column.