Reviewed by Ceren Mutus

Over the course of the past three decades, Turkish politics has been experiencing a radical transformation leading to deep-seated changes in the traditional structures. Despite serious studies solely pointing out the domestic variables triggering the process, global and regional influences are undeniable driving forces which necessitate a more complex analysis of the post-1980 period of Turkish politics.

The recent experience of Turkish politics since the 1980s has clearly revealed that global dynamics, such as Turkey's endeavors to be an EU member, exposure of the Turkish economy to impacts of the global market, rise in security concerns related to the fragile geopolitics of Turkey, and new phase for world politics after the September 11 attacks on the one hand, and reconceptualization of...

Reviewed by Muzaffer Vatansever

The 20th century was an age of supra-national unifications for some societies, and sectarian ethnic violence for others simultaneously. While the developed capitalist countries have triggered the supra-national unifications, the old communist countries have mainly been the victims of sectarian and ethnic violence. The old continent Europe has been the scene of both of those experiences. On one side of...

Reviewed by Mustafa Kutlay

International Political Economy (hereafter, IPE) emerged after the 1970s as a distinct academic discipline. The emergence of the field can be regarded as a reaction to the separation between economics and politics. As known, after the Marginalist Revolution in 1870s, economics consolidated its position as the "most scientific" field in the social sciences and started to be regarded as a separate...

Reviewed by Ceren Mutus

Turkey-West relations, which can be traced back to the Ottoman period, gained a new impetus after the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923. The new Republic turned its face to the West, which it approached as the source of civilization, democratization and modernization. Yet, Turkey's becoming a key partner for the West in the exact sense corresponds to the emergence...

Reviewed by Salih Dogan

"Good is the enemy of great"

This book, "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't" by Jim Collins -co-author of the book "Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies" with Jerry I. Porras- was first published in 2001 and has sold millions of copies. It still sells more than 300,000 copies every year. It ranks #66...