Pınar Bilgin holds a Ph.D. in International Politics (2000) and M.Sc, in Strategic Studies (1996) from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She previously studied at the Middle East Technical University (B.Sc. 1993) and Bilkent University (M.A. 1995). She is the author of Regional Security in the Middle East: a Critical Perspective (Routledge, 2005, 2nd rev. ed. 2019) and The International in Security, Security in the International (Routledge, 2016). She is co-editor of two volumes: Decolonising Asia (with L.H.M. Ling, Ashgate, 2017) and Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology (with Xavier Guillaume, Routledge, 2017). Her articles have appeared in Security Dialogue, Political Geography, Geopolitics, European Journal of Political Research, Review of International Studies, Third World Quarterly, International Theory, International Relations, and Foreign Policy Analysis, among others. She is a Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University and a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences.
