Salih Dogan
- Title
- Location
- Chancellor’s Building - Room CBA 2.002
- Role
- Phd Candidate in Politics and International Relations, SPIRE. Research Assistant at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Turgut Özal University based in Ankara, Turkey.
- Phone
- +44 (0) 7429 330 137
- s.dogan@keele.ac.uk
- salihdogan52@gmail.com
Biography
Salih Dogan is a researcher on International Relations and Political Science with particular reference to Security Studies, Eurasia and South Asia. His main fields of interest are Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asian countries, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, International Security and Terrorism. He also has a keen interest in Turkish Politics, Turkish Foreign Policy, Kurdish Issue, and PKK.
He has worked at the Center for Security Studies and Center for Eurasian Studies at USAK (International Strategic Research Organization), Ankara-based Turkish think-tank, for more than two years before coming to the UK. He worked as project coordinator, researcher/expert and managing editor during his work at USAK.
Currently Salih is a PhD student within the School of Politics and International Relations (http://www.keele.ac.uk/spire/) at Keele University, United Kingdom. He also holds a Research Assistant position at Turgut Özal University in Ankara, Turkey (http://www.turgutozal.edu.tr/). He lives in Ankara, Turkey and Birmingham, UK.
Research and scholarship
The Research project is on International Security and Afghanistan. Main supervisor is Dr. Barry Ryan.
Publications
- Dogan, Salih and A. Yuvac? (2012) “Geopolitics, Geoculture and Turkish Foreign Policy,” Geopolitics in the 21st Century, Special Issue on Turkey and Hungary in the 21st Century, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 9-23.
- Dogan, S. (2010) “The Making of Afghanistan: Karzai's Second Presidential Term and Obama's New Afghanistan Strategy,” USAK Yearbook of International Politics and Law, Vol. 3, pp. 539-543.
- Dogan, S. (2010) “Kyrgyzstan’s U-Turn on Closure of Manas U.S. Military Base,” USAK Yearbook of International Politics and Law, Vol. 3, pp. 530-534.
- Dogan, S. (2010) “Book Review: In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan” by Seth G. Jones, Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies, Vol. 5, No. 9, pp. 164-167.
- Dogan, S. (2009) “Book Review: Tajikistan in the New Central Asia - Geopolitics, Great Power Rivalry and Radical Islam,” Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies (JCACS), Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 211-213.
Other information (e.g. teaching/training activities, outreach/media)
- Columnist at Strategic Outlook, IRST Anatolia Daily, TUIC Akademi, Caspian Weekly and Turkey Tribune.
- TV Appearances: TRT (Turkish Radio Television), TRT Haber, TGRT Haber, Cem TV.
- Radio: TRT Radyo 1, TRT TSR, TRT Diyarbak?r Radyosu.
- Opinion pieces published in e-International Relations (www.e-ir.info), Hurriyet Daily News, Today’s Zaman, Star Gazetesi.
- Interviews: Voice of America, SETimes.com, Eurasianet.org, Journal of Turkish Weekly, USAK Gundem.
