Gerald Robbins

Associate Scholar, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Gerald Robbins, Associate Scholar, has more than 25 years’ experience relating to Turkey, the Caucasus region, and Central Asia. He was awarded a Fulbright-Hayes fellowship to study rural-urban migration at Bosphorus University, Istanbul, in 1982 and holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York University (1984).

Since then, Robbins has used his Turkish language skills to report from Ankara and Istanbul for The Weekly Standard, the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly and the Washington Times. He served as Program Director for Freedom House in Baku, Azerbaijan from 1995–96, managing programs promoting post-Soviet political and economic development.

Robbins is a frequent lecturer at universities and foreign policy institutes. He authored Azerbaijan (Mason Crest, 2005) as part of FPRI’s “The Growth and Influence of Islam” series. He is currently working on a book about the Ottoman Empire and Persia’s Qajar Empires.

Gerald Robbins
Associate Scholar
Foreign Policy Research Institute
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