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Order and Compromise questions the historicity of government practices in Turkey from the late Ottoman Empire onwards. Its discussion of state-society relations reveals how political and administrative institutions are being framed by constant interactions with other social realms.
About the author
Marc Aymes, PhD (2005), Aix-Marseille 1 University, is a permanent research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. His works focus on Mediterranean provincials and forging Ottomans. He currently serves as an editor of the
European Journal of Turkish Studies and of the journal
Labyrinthe: Atelier interdisciplinaire. His most recent publications include
A Provincial History of the Ottoman Empire: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2014).
Benjamin Gourisse, PhD (2010) Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris), is an associate professor of political science at Paris-Dauphine University. He is the autor of
La Violence politique en Turquie, l'État en jeu (1975-1980) (Karthala, 2014).
Élise Massicard, PhD (2002), Institut d'Études Politiques (Paris), is a permanent research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Her works focus on the political sociology of contemporary Turkey. She has authored
The Alevis in Turkey and Europe (Routledge, 2012) and co-edited
Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party (Routledge, 2013).
