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Alptekin Molla is an Assistant Professor at Balikesir University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of International Politics. He concurrently serves as the Department Head at Bandırma 19 Mayıs University and coordinates Foreign Relations Institutions. His academic career spans over 15 years, focusing on Turkish foreign policy, international security, and geopolitics. He teaches courses on international relations, Turkish foreign policy, and Ottoman diplomacy history.
Research interests emphasize Turkey's foreign policy dynamics, NATO relations, and regional conflicts like the Cyprus issue and South Caucasus geopolitics. His publications analyze post-Cold War military interventions, Gulf crises, and Turkey-US-NATO interactions. Molla has authored four books on Turkish foreign policy and global power competition, and his work appears in peer-reviewed journals like NEW Türkiye and Academic Frontier.
He has supervised two master's theses on Cyprus policy and South Caucasus geopolitics. Professionally, he contributes to editorial boards and peer reviews in journals such as Finans Politik & Ekonomik Yorumlar and Yönetim ve Ekonomi Araştırma Dergisi.
