Reviewed by Dilek Aydemir

Studies on Central Asia are mostly centered on issues such as political transformation, changing power balances and the regional significance of the Central Asian states. This volume, titled "Everyday Life in Central Asia" and edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, somehow goes beyond the prominent discussions and focuses on 'everyday life of Central Asian people' as a relatively overlooked aspect...

Reviewed by Serpil Acikalin

In the Middle East, although many countries have electoral systems, as we see from low turnouts, the region's people feel politically alienated because of their lack of confidence in their leaders. The reason for this is that the people predict the inheritance of their leaders in the elections. In the region, particularly after the events of 9/11 and the Iraq invasion,...

Reviewed by Kaitlin MacKenzie

Eric Hobsbawm, the eminent British Marxist historian, has witnessed the majority of the twentieth century. Now in his tenth decade, Hobsbawm has observed the ebb and flow of history, the rise and fall of empires, and shifting political ideologies. In Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism Hobsbawm looks back on the events of the twentieth century that he finds relevant to the situations...

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...

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...