Dr. Nuri Ali Tahir (Nuri Korkmaz) is Associate Professor of International Relations at Bursa Technical University in Turkey. He obtained his PhD in Transborder Policies for Daily Life from the University of Trieste in Italy, MA and BA degrees in International Relations from Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. Previously, he was Marie Curie early stage researcher at Katholieke Uviersiteit Leuven (Belgium), visiting scholar at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the University of Texas at Austin (USA). His research interests are borders, minorities, nationalism in the Balkans, Black Sea Region and its strategic importance, European border management policies, nationalism and religion in the Middle East, European integration of the Balkans. He will be visiting researcher at the University of Tübingen, Institute of Politics between March-August 2025.