Kevin Koehler is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. His research focuses on politics and security in the Middle East and North Africa with an emphasis on political elites, regime change, and civil-military relations. Kevin is the principal investigator of the ERC-funded Political Elites and Regime Change in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA-PERC) project which investigates the dynamics of elite change in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey over the past century.