Reflections on the Centenary of the Republic of Turkey

ISBN-13: 9781032563763 / Twarda / 2023 / 332 str.

Opis

This book has both a retrospective and prospective look at Turkey on the occasion of it’s centenary. It will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of Middle Eastern studies and Turkish history, politics, and foreign policy.

Spis treści

Introduction: reflections on the centenary of the Republic of Turkey1. A hundred years of flux: Turkish political regimes from 1921 to 2023 2. Three turning points in the political development of modern Turkey 3. Never quite making it: Turkey’s repeated attempts at political democracy 4. Liberalism: the missing piece in Turkey’s political development 5. Divergent developmental performance of Turkey and South Korea: an appraisal from political economy perspective 6. Turkey’s asylum policies over the last century: continuity, change and contradictions 7. The plight of Turkey’s minorities: what obstacles and opportunities exist for equal citizenship beyond the Republic’s centennial? 8. From activism to resilience: the Turkish constitutional court in comparative perspective 9. The AKP, religion, and political values in contemporary Turkey: implications for the future of democracy 10. Reflections on Şerif Mardin’s center-periphery thesis11. The making of Turkish exceptionalism: the west, the rest and unreconciled issues from the past 12. The trajectory of a modified middle power: an attempt to make sense of Turkey’s foreign policy in its centennial 13. Turkey as a restrained middle power 14. Historic missed opportunities and prospects for renewal: Turkey-EU relations in a post-Western order15. Facing new security threats in an era of global transformations: Turkey’s challenges of energy security, climate change and sustainability

O autorze

Paul Kubicek is Professor of Political Science at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. He has also taught at several Turkish universities and has published extensively on contemporary Turkish politics.