Gökhan Ereli Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations; Researcher, Center for Gulf Studies and Global Policy, Ibn Khaldun University

Dr. Gökhan Ereli is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Ibn Haldun University, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Gulf Studies and Global Policy. His research examines Gulf geopolitics and political economy, US foreign policy, and post-positivist approaches to International Relations. He holds a PhD from Middle East Technical University, where his dissertation addressed the domestic sources of Saudi–Emirati geoeconomic competition, informed by fieldwork in Jordan, Qatar, and the UAE. He writes in Turkish and English, for both academic and policy audiences, on GCC statecraft, identity politics, and Middle Eastern security architecture.