Gallia Lindenstrauss is a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies and specializes in Turkish foreign policy. Her additional research interests are ethnic conflicts, Azerbaijan’s foreign policy, the Cyprus issue, and the Kurds. She has written extensively on these topics, and her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in all of the major Israeli media outlets as well as international outlets. Lindenstrauss completed her PhD in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She formerly lectured at the Hebrew University and at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University as well as a visiting fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center.