Gloria Shkurti Özdemir

Researcher
Gloria Shkurti Özdemir completed her BA in Political Science and International Relations in Al- bania. She finished her master’s studies at Sakarya University with her thesis entitled “A Lethal Weapon that Became the Cure-all for Terrorism: Discursive Construction of the U.S. Dronified Warfare.” She is a PhD can- didate at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and her thesis focuses on the application of artificial intelligence in the military by taking as a case the U.S.-China rivalry. Her main research interests include U.S. foreign policy, drone warfare, and artificial intelligence. Currently, she is a researcher in the Foreign Policy Directorate at SETA Foundation. She is also working as the Assistant Editor of Insight Turkey, a journal published by SETA Foundation.