Born in Erdemli, Mersin, in 1960, Arı graduated from the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1983 and completed a master’s degree at Uludağ University (1986) and a doctorate at Istanbul University (1991). Arı became an associate professor in 1996 and a professor in 2002. In 1995 Arı conducted research at Georgetown University in Washington. Between 2016 and 2019 Arı served as Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Bursa Uludağ University. Arı is the author of numerous books, including Amerika’da Siyasal Yapı, Lobiler ve Dış Politika (Political Structure, Lobbies and Foreign Policy in America), Yükselen Güç: Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri ve Orta Doğu (Rising Power: Turkish–American Relations and the Middle East), Uluslararası İlişkiler Teorileri (International Relations Theories) and Irak, İran, ABD ve Petrol (Iraq, Iran, the US and Oil). Arı is currently a faculty member in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Bursa Uludağ University.
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In the midterm elections held on 3 November 2026, whose results became clear on 4 November, the Democratic Party won a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Republican President Donald Trump will thus enter the last two years of his term with a Congress in which both chambers of the legislature are controlled by the opposition…
Prof. Cafer Tayyar Arı
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