Pınar Dost is a nonresident fellow and the former deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Turkey Programs and an associated researcher with the French Institute for Anatolian Studies. A historian of international relations, her research interests are mainly focused on the fields of modern Turkish diplomatic history, US-Turkish relations, Turkish foreign policy and relations with the Middle East and NATO as well as Turkish migration policies. Throughout her career, she has combined experience from academia and research organizations and managed several research and publication projects. She has been teaching courses on the history of the Second World War, the Cold War, political thought and international relations. Dost holds a PhD and an MA in the history of international relations from Sciences Po Paris and a BA in political science from Galatasaray University in Istanbul. Her dissertation is entitled, “The Origins of the American Preponderance in Turkey from 1939 to 1947.” She is the author of Le bon dictateur. L’image de Mustafa Kemal Atatürk en France (1939-1938) (Libra, 2014) and contributed to various books and academic journals with articles on her research areas.