By Gökhan Bacik in Gaziantep, Turkey, for Silent Heroes, Invisible Bridges
Gökhan Bacik is an associate professor of political science at Zirve University. He has also taught in different European Universities as Erasmus Visiting Professor. He is the author of September 11 and World Politics (2004); and, Modern International System: Genealogy, Teleology and the Expansion (2007). His most recent book is Hybrid Sovereignty in the Arab Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2008). Bacik’s research papers have also been published in Middle East Policy, International Review of Sociology, The Muslim World, Arab Studies Quarterly, Peace Review, Turkish Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.