Professional Affiliation

Professor of International Relations, Boston University

Expert Bio

In over 20 years as a New York Times correspondent, Stephen Kinzer covered more than 50 countries on four continents. His final post was as the first Times bureau chief in Istanbul. Among his books are Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds (2001), and All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (2003).