Gloria Shkurti Özdemir is Director of Research at AEGIX. She is a scholar of international relations specializing in emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, U.S. foreign policy, and drone warfare. Her research explores the strategic, political, and security implications of AI in global power competition, with particular emphasis on U.S.-China technological rivalry and the transformative impact of AI on middle-power states.
She is the author of the book Artificial Intelligence ‘Arms Dynamics’: The Case of the U.S. and China Rivalry, and the editor of Different Dimensions of Environmental Security in Türkiye and Beyond. Dr. Shkurti Özdemir is currently a Researcher at the SETA Foundation, Assistant Editor of Insight Turkey, and Director of the ETAI Research Center at Khazar University.
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