RIDVAN BARI URCOSTA

dr Ridvan Bariiev (Ridvan Bari Urcosta) – PhD on Security Studies (2022); 2014 – The Human rights Officer, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights). 2014 -2015 – The Estonian School of Diplomacy; Contributing to newspapers and academic journals. For instance, War Room (U.S. Army College), Jamestown Foundation, European Council of Foreign Relations, Journal of U.S. Air Forces, Small Wars, Radio Free Europe, New Eastern Europe, NATO Review, the Jerusalem Post, The Proceedings, the U.S. Naval Institute and so forth.
2018 – 2022 worked and closely cooperated with the European Parliament, the Subcommittee on Defense and Security in the Office;

2018-2019 – teaching the course „Russia and the Middle East” at the Warsaw University;

2019- 2023 – the cooperation with the different think tanks in Poland and U.S.

Research interests

The Global South, the Middle East and Russia, the theory of the Future Warfare (Impact of the Drones/Robotics, AI and Space), the evolution of the Chinese and Soviet/Russian military and political thought, the Black Sea.

Unit

Department of Strategic Studies and International Security

Recent publications:

Ridvan Bari Urcosta, “Russia’s Crimean Policy: Geopolitics, Identity and History,” Chapter in “Crimea: From Regional and International Perspectives,” (edit by Kadir Üstün, Filiz Tutku Aydın), ISBN 9786258322781, © 2023 SET Vakfı İktisadi İşletmesi, pp. 61-81

Ridvan Bari Urcosta, Turecka strategia na kaukazie południowym po wojnie w karabachu [Turkish strategy towards the South Caucasus after the war in Karabakh] Analizy Międzynarodowe 1 (3), 24.

Ridvan Bari Urcosta, “US Advance and Russia’s Deep Concerns: The Operations Center in Ochakiv,” US Naval Institute, April 19, 2019

Ridvan Bari Urcosta, ”Turkish Drone Doctrine and Theaters of War in the Greater Middle East” Small Wars Journal, November 21, 2021

Ridvan Bari Urcosta, “The revolution in drone warfare: The lessons from the Idlib de-escalation zone” (The US Air Forces) Journal of European, Middle Eastern, & African Affairs 2 (3), 50-65  (2021)