This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the transformations in Turkeys transatlantic connection including political, economic, and security relations.
Providing a unique record of the authoritarian, centralist and ultra-nationalist nature of the Turkish state manifested in Erdogan's "New Turkey," Candar challenges stereotyped and conventional views on Turkey and details account of the encounter between Turkey and the Kurds in historical perspective with special emphasis on failed peace ......
The recent turbulence in Turkish-American relations has once more drawn attention to the nature of the seventy-year-old alliance between Turkey and the United States. This elaborative study demonstrates that turbulence is not a novelty in bilateral relations.
From Past to Present in a Turbulent Geopolitical Landscape
This book examines Turkish-Qatari relations from the nineteenth century to the present. The authors argue that conducive structural dynamics and ambitious geopolitical goals facilitated critical foreign policy convergences between Ankara and Doha, eventually developing into a strategic partnership between the two countries.
Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga
Combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. This book offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, tattoos, and a striking account of a ship funeral.
Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear 'Crisis' analyzes the 'crisis' surrounding Iran's nuclear program and explores the various aspects and dimensions of the international dispute using several academic perspectives, including realism, world-systems theory, liberal institutionalism, domestic politics, and multi-level games.
What Transitions Elsewhere Can Teach Us About the Prospects for Arab Dem
Surveying countries in other parts of the world during their transitions to democracy, this book argues that the long-term prospects in many parts of the Arab world are actually quite positive. It puts the Arab Spring in comparative perspective.
The book delves into a data-driven apolitical perspective of the migration problem in Turkey with the challenges that the Turkish government and international NGOs have had to confront in providing public services; notably, education and health to Syrian refugees in camps, public schools and clinics around the country.
Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction explores Islamophobia as a manifestation of racism by deconstructing selected literary works. Through the works of Lorrain Adams, John Updike and Don Delillo, the author proposes a thorough discursive understanding of Islam as a code of life.
