Erman Akıllı, PhD, is Associate Professor of International Relations at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Turkey. He is the author of the book State Identity and Foreign Policy in Turkey (2016), as well as numerous book chapters and papers, and is the editor of Foreign Aid in Turkey and the World (2016) and Eurasian Politics and Society: Issues and Challenges (2017).
Burak Güneş, PhD, is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Turkey. He has published articles on state responsibility, private military and security companies, climate change and migration. He is also the author of the books Private Military/Security Companies and State Responsibility: Blackwater and the Middle East and International Law on States Arming Non-state Armed Groups.