Nation-Building in Turkey and Morocco - Governing Kurdish and Berber Dissent

Informationen zum Autor Senem Aslan is Assistant Professor of Politics at Bates College, Maine. She has published articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and the European Journal of Turkish Studies. Klappentext This book compares the relatively peaceful relationship between the Berbers and the Moroccan state with the violent relationship between the Kurds and the Turkish state. Zusammenfassung This study compares the relatively peaceful relationship between the Berbers and the Moroccan state with the violent and confrontational relationship between the Kurds and the Turkish state. Rather than focusing on state legislation and discourse! it examines the implementation of state policies on the ground and the effects of these policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Governing areas of dissidence; 2. Policies of extreme makeover: state-Kurdish relations in the early Turkish republic; 3. State building and the politics of national identity in Morocco; 4. The making of an armed conflict: state-Kurdish relations in the post-1950 period; 5. The rise of the Amazigh movement and state co-optation in Morocco; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Senem Aslan, Senem (Bates College Aslan, Aslan Senem
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2014
• EAN: 9781107054608
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05460-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, Morocco, Turkey, Political structure & processes, Comparative Politics, Political structure and processes, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government, Türkiye / Turkey