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Hasret Çomak is Professor of International Relations and Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences at Istanbul Kent University, Türkiye. His areas of expertise include international organizations, international security, and international law, as well as geopolitics, geostrategy, geoeconomics, the law of the sea, human rights law, and international humanitarian law. He graduated from the Turkish Military Academy (1976) and subsequently earned degrees in Public Finance (1982), Political Science (1982), and Law (1988) from Istanbul University. He received his M.A. in International Relations from the Institute of Social Sciences at Istanbul University in 1984. He later completed two Ph.D. degrees at the same institute, earning doctorates in Economics (1987) and Political Science and Public Administration (1990). Among his most recent publications are African Policy, The Geopolitics of the Black Sea, the two-volume The Geopolitics of the Mediterranean, the two-volume The Geopolitics of the Aegean, and the six-volume Refugee Crises in International Policy.