What accounts for the regression of Turkey's stature from a
"model" country to one riddled with state crisis and conflict?
Unable to adapt to the challenges of the era and failing to respond
to ...ethnic and multicultural political demands for reform, the
Turkish state has resisted change and stuck to its ideological
roots stemming from the 1930s. In Turkey's State Crisis,
Aras delves into the historical, political, and geopolitical
background of the country's decline. In an effort to delineate the
origin of the crisis, Aras investigates several perspectives: the
political elites' attempt to change the administrative system to
create a performance-oriented one; the bureaucracy's response,
concerns, and resistance to change; the state's conflict resolution
capacity; and the transformation of foreign/security policy.
Providing a comprehensive portrait of the Turkish state's turmoil,
Aras creates a blueprint for the ways in which much-needed reforms
can break vicious cycles of political polarization, rising
authoritarianism, and weak state institutions.
A study of migration, mobility control and state power in the late Ottoman Empire. Sheds light on the phenomenon of migrant smuggling from a historical perspective. Demonstrates the effects of ...different regimes of mobility control on the migration process. Examines the limits of citizenship and nationality in the context of global migration.
This lavishly illustrated volume presents the major surviving monuments of the early period of the Rum Seljuqs, the first major Muslim dynasty to rule Anatolia.
The first full account of the historic change in Turkey between 2007 and 2011, and the only scholarly description of the new order in the immediate aftermath of the change from 2011.
New perspectives on ethnic relations, Islam and neoliberalism have emerged in Turkey since the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002. Placing the period within its historical and ...contemporary context, Tahir Abbas argues that what it is to be ethnically, religiously and culturally Turkish has been transformed.
The Ottoman lands, which extended from modern Hungary to the
Arabian peninsula, were home to a vast population with a rich
variety of cultures. The Ottoman World is the first
primary source reader to ...bring a wide and diverse set of voices
across Ottoman society into the classroom. Written in many
languages-not only Ottoman Turkish but also Arabic, Armenian,
Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and Persian-these texts, here translated,
span the extent of the early modern Ottoman empire, from the 1450s
to 1700. Instructors are supplied with narratives conveying the
lived experiences of individuals through texts that highlight human
variety and accelerate a trend away from a state-centric approach
to Ottoman history. In addition, samples from court registers,
legends, biographical accounts, hagiographies, short stories, witty
anecdotes, jokes, and lampoons provide exciting glimpses into
popular mindsets in Ottoman society. By reflecting new directions
in the scholarship with an innovative choice of texts, this
collection provides a vital resource for teachers and students.
The Greek Fire Santelli, Maureen Connors
2020, 2020-12-15
eBook
The Greek Fire examines the United States' early global influence as the fledgling nation that inserted itself in conflicts that were oceans away. Maureen Connors Santelli focuses on the American ...fascination with and involvement in the Greek Revolution in the 1820s and 1830s. That nationalist movement incited an American philhellenic movement that pushed the borders of US interests into the eastern Mediterranean and infused a global perspective into domestic conversations concerning freedom and reform. Perceiving strong cultural, intellectual, and racial ties with Greece, American men and women identified Greece as the seedbed of American democracy and a crucial source of American values. From Maryland to Missouri and Maine to Georgia, grassroots organizations sent men, money, and supplies to aid the Greeks. Defending the modern Greeks from Turkish slavery and oppression was an issue on which northerners and southerners agreed. Philhellenes, often led by women, joined efforts with benevolence and missionary groups and together they promoted humanitarianism, education reform, and evangelism. Public pressure on the US Congress, however, did not result in intervention on behalf of the Greeks. Commercial interests convinced US officials, who wished to cultivate commercial ties with the Ottomans, to remain out of the conflict. The Greek Fire analyzes the role of Americans in the Greek Revolution and the aftermath of US involvement. In doing so, Santelli revises understandings of US involvement in foreign affairs, and she shows how diplomacy developed at the same time as Americans were learning what it meant to be a country, and what that country stood for.
