He is also a research associate at the Five Colleges Inc, Amherst, Massachusetts. He obtained his BA degree in Political Science at the International Islamic University, Malaysia (1995), and his MA degree in International Relations at the International University of Japan (1997) and his Ph. D. degree in Political Science at the University of Utah (2006). He conducted post-graduate research at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 1998. Dr. Kosebalaban authored Güneydoğu Asya’da Islam ve Siyaset (Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia; Istanbul: İlke Yayıncılık, 1997) and Turkish Foreign Policy: Islam, Nationalism and Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). His articles have appeared in various academic journals.