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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.
List of contents
Introduction: reflections on the centenary of the Republic of Turkey 1. 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 ¿erif Mardin's center-periphery thesis 11. 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 order 15. Facing new security threats in an era of global transformations: Turkey's challenges of energy security, climate change and sustainability
About the author
Paul Kubicek is Professor of Political Science at Oakland University, Rochester, USA. He has also taught at several Turkish universities and has published extensively on contemporary Turkish politics. He is the editor of
Turkish Studies.
