Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the Justice and Development Party

ISBN-13: 9780415599405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 238 str.

Ümit Cizre;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Concerned with the development of Islamic politics inside Turkey, in particular the rise of the Justice and Development Party that now rules the country, this text examines the changes that have taken place within the party itself, the role of the secular state and wider international issues including accession to the EU.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Justice and Development Party - Making Choices, Revisions and Reversals Interactively Ümit Cizre  Part 1: Historical Evolution and the Interactive Making of the Justice and Development Party  1. The Specific Evolution of Contemporary Political Islam in Turkey and its ‘Difference’ Menderes Çinar and Burhanettin Duran  2. Problematizing the Intellectual and Political Vestiges: From ‘Welfare’ to ‘Justice and Development’ Ahmet Yildiz  3. The Emergence of Turkey’s Contemporary 'Muslim Democrats' Kenan Çayir  4. The Justice and Development Party’s ‘New Politics’: Steering Toward Conservative Democracy - A Revised Islamic Agenda or Management of New Crises? Burhanettin Duran  Part 2: Secular Establishment and the Justice and Development Party  5. The Justice and Development Party and the Kemalist Establishment Menderes Çinar  6. The Justice and Development Party and the Military: Recreating the Past after Reforming It? Ümit Cizre  Part 3: European Union Dimension  7. The Justice and Development Party and the European Union: From Euroscepticism to Euro-Enthusiasm and Euro-Fatigue Ali Resul Usul  Part 4: Empirical Data and the Justice and Development Party  8. The Social Bases of the Justice and Development Party Ertan Aydin and Ibrahim Dalmis.  Conclusion Ümit Cizre

O autorze

Ümit Cizre is a Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara,Turkey. She is a former Fulbright Research Scholar in Princeton University and Jean Monnet Research Fellow in Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.