Adrian Cioroianu
Historian and former Romanian minister of foreign affairs (2007-2008), Adrian Cioroianu now teaches at the University of Bucharest. In 2009, he published Geopolitica Matrioşkăi. Rusia postsovietică în noua ordine mondială (Matryoshka Geopolitics. Post-Soviet Russia in the new world order). He is a frequent contributor on geopolitical issues for Bucharest daily Adevărul.
Updated: 14 May 2010
Can Turkey reconcile its European orientation with an ambition to play a more active role in the Muslim world? The answer to this question will be largely determined by one man: Turkey's current Minister for Foreign Affairs, an increasingly influential neo-Ottoman academic.