Dr. Steven Cook of the CFR Speaks
at the Turkish Cultural Center
The Douglas Dillon fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and
expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East
policy, Dr. Steven Cook spoke at the Turkish Cultural Center. During
the lecture event organized by the Young Professional in Foreign
Policy and hosted by the Turkish Cultural Center, Dr. Cook explained
the changing political, socio-economic and ethnic dynamics in
Turkey, and their possible implications in the regional balance of
power. During the vibrant Q&A session following the lecture, Dr.
Cook provided a series of policy recommendations to alleviate the
situation in the Middle East in general and in Iraq in particular.
Prior to the lecture, the participants socialized with each other
while enjoying Mediterranean food and the photography exhibition of
Turkey. Among the participants were guests from such distinguished
institutions as Turkish, Russian, Chinese, Korean Missions to the
UN, the United Nations’ political affairs office, the UN Department
of Peacekeeping, CitiGroup, JP Morgan, Accenture, McKinsey &
Company, Morgan Stanley, Princeton, Columbia, New York and Middle
East Technical Universities, Council on Foreign Relations, the
Century Foundation, and New York Military Affairs Symposium among
the others.
Dr. Steven A. Cook is the Douglas Dillon fellow at the Council on
Foreign Relations. He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as
well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Dr. Cook is the author of Ruling
But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt,
Algeria, and Turkey (John Hopkins University Press, May 2007). Prior
to joining the Council, Dr. Cook was a research fellow at the
Brookings Institution (2001-2002) and a Soref research fellow at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy (1995-96). He has
published widely in a variety of foreign policy journals, opinion
magazines, and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy,
Wall Street Journal, Journal of Democracy, Weekly Standard, New
Republic Online, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times,
and the International Herald Tribune. Dr. Cook is also a frequent
commentator on radio and television.
Dr. Cook holds a BA in international studies from Vassar College, an
MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University’s
School of Advanced International Studies, and both an MA and PhD in
political science from the University of Pennsylvania.
