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Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power |
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by Zbigniew Brzezinski |
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Altay Atlı |
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The ongoing shift of economic power from the West to the East has resulted in a plethora of studies by both academics and practitioners of the field. As China continues to grow as an economic superpower and America faces implacable decline and Europe remains mired in a crisis with no end in sight, these studies often tend to come up with... |
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Ottoman Izmir: The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port, 1840-1880 |
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by Sibel Zandi-Sayek |
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William Gourlay |
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Despite being an important city both in the Republic of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, Izmir does not loom large in the scholarly or popular imagination. It languishes in the shadow of Istanbul, the pre-eminent Turkish metropolis. Those studies and broader popular conceptions of Izmir that do exist are, in large measure, constructed within the context of the events of 1922... |
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Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey |
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by Ahmet T. Kuru |
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Audrey Stevens |
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"Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey" by Ahmet T. Kuru is based off of the author’s doctoral thesis. The work is structured around the three cases studies: the United States, France, and Turkey, but includes some discussion of a variety of histories of state interaction with religion. This 2009 work describes contemporary relationships between the... |
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The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity |
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by David Romano |
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Tugay Zehir |
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David Romano had his book, The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity, published by Cambridge Middle East Studies in 2006. While Romano was preparing this book, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Inter-University Consortium for Arab and Middle East Studies in Canada, but is today an Assistant Professor of International Studies in Rhodes College. The book’s content relates... |
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Turkey – European Union Relations: Dilemmas, Opportunities, and Constraints |
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by Müftüler-Bac and Yannis A. Stivachtis |
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Bart Tieben |
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European Union-Turkey relations have been an important issue on both sides’ political agenda for over fifty years. In order to understand the history, the current situation, and the possible future of Turkey’s unique accession process, a large number of authors have been trying to contribute to this topic. Melmet Müftüler-Baç and Yannis A. Stivachtis selected papers that were used in the... |
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