Mustafa Berat Keskin completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Political Science at the University of Vienna and earned his PhD from the Department of History at the same university, specializing in New Diplomatic History. His master’s thesis, “Die Rolle der internationalen Organisation im Kosovo-Konflikt” (The Role of International Organizations in the Kosovo Conflict), was supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Gerlich, and his doctoral dissertation, “Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen der Türkei und Österreich in der Zwischenkriegszeit” (The Diplomatic Relations between Turkey and Austria in the Interwar Period), was conducted under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erwin A. Schmidl. His research interests focus on International Relations, particularly foreign policy, geopolitics, and Turkish foreign policy, as well as New Diplomatic History and Turkish-German relations. His scholarly contributions include organizing the major symposium “Collective Memory and Evolving Dialogue: Symposium on Austrian-Turkish Relations” at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, where he presented his analysis of Turkish-Austrian relations between 1924 and 1938, in addition to publishing several articles in academic journals in Turkey.