Vahram Ter-Matevosyanis Associate Researcher and Associate Professor at Rabdan Academy, Abu Dhabi, the UAE. Previously, he chaired Political Science and International Affairs Program at the American University of Armenia. He specializes in foreign and security policies of Turkey and the South Caucasus countries. He has received his doctoral degree from the University of Bergen (Norway), Master’s degree from Lund University (Sweden), He has authored two monographs: Turkey, Kemalism, and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation, New York & London. Palgrave Macmillan. 2019 and Islam in Turkey’s Social-Political Life: The National Outlook Movement, Yerevan, Limush, 2008. His research articles have been published both in edited volumes by Routledge and Springer and in the following peer-reviewed journals: “Digest of Middle East Studies”, “Third World Quarterly”, “Nations and Nationalism”, “Europe-Asia Studies”, “Turkish Studies”, “Middle Eastern Studies”, “Insight Turkey”, “Eurasian Geography and Economics”, “Caucasus Survey”, “Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.”
