Philip Robins

Dr Philip Robins is the University Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Antony's College, posts that he has held for over five years. Prior to that, he spent almost eight years at the Royal institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, where he served Head of the Middle East Programme. He has also worked as a journalist based in the region. From 1994 to 1995, he was a visiting professor at Bosphorus University in Istanbul. Dr Robins is the author of Turkey and the Middle East (Pinter/RIIA, London, 1991) a comprehensive book on this subject, which was published subsequently in both Arabic and Turkish. He is currently completing a book on Turkish foreign policy.