Kemal Kiri?ci is Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, director of the European Studies Center, and a professor of international relations in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bo?aziçi University, Istanbul. His areas of expertise include international relations theory, international politics, government, and society in the Middle East; Turkish foreign policy; international affairs; and refugee studies. He served as a member of the External Relations Advisory Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Dr. Kiri?ci is a former Fulbright scholar and visiting associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; a former visiting associate professor at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and former faculty at the General Staff Armed Forces College, Istanbul. Dr. Kiri?ci received a B.A. in finance and management from Bo?aziçi University; an M.A. in international relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England; and a Ph.D. in international relations from the Department of Systems Science at the City University, London. He is an alumnus of Salzburg Seminar Session 409, Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in Europe, 2003.