The title of this new volume is perhaps misleading suggesting as it does a discussion of imperial expansion and its impact on conqueror and...

Based on extensive literature and fieldwork research in international relations, intellectual history and political thought, Cemil Aydin has...

Labour Migration from Turkey to Western Europe is a detailed multidisciplinary study of the labor migration from Turkey to the West during the...

The relationship between the state and religion, or the question of secularism, has always been one of the most hotly debated issues in Turkish...

While Islamic fundamentalism or “radical Islam” has attracted a great deal of public attention, some societies in the Muslim world have experienced...

This work’s title Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey From Epic to Novel might give some readers the impression that this book is about...

One of the most distinctive things about Orhan Pamuk’s writing is the playful way he tantalizes his readers by constantly blurring the boundaries...

The title of this book is a misnomer: the title should have been “The Republican People Party and Kemalism” for the book aims to unravel why this...

One spring day towards the end of the cold war, a time of surprises, my teleprinter shuddered into action. A colleague in Beijing was sending a...

The Middle East has been among the most problematic regions of the modern world for several decades. Undemocratic regimes, continuous coups d'etat,...

The conspicuous representation of the women of the so-called "Middle East" 1 by Western Imperialists is not limited to this short-lived millennium...

All political systems use the public education system to propagate the basic values and principles on which they are based, and when the political...

Ruling But Not Governingis an impressive comparative study of the disputed political regimes of Algeria, Egypt, and Turkey. The book sheds light on...

Over 11 million illegal immigrants reside in the United States, and a projected 1,400 new immigrants cross the border illegally or overstay their...

In the Long Shadow of Europe brings together 14 articles on Greece and Turkey with the purpose of finding answers to the following questions: how...

Scholars of diplomatic history and politics have long debated the question of how U.S. foreign policy is formulated. In US foreign Policy in the...

For the general reader interested in global political affairs Islamist organizations like the Palestinian Hamas, the Lebanese Hizbollah and the...

What happens if a liberal philosopher writes a book about religion and the public life? He will speak out and argue for a rigid secularism, placing...

It is increasingly recognized that effective state interventionism is a key ingredient of successful integration into the global economy. Indeed,...

It is comparatively well-known now that the late Albert Hourani came rather to regret the title of his probably most famous work, Arabic Thought in...

Feroz Ahmad once described contemporary Turks as suffering from the “Sèvres Complex,” by which he referred to Turkish paranoia about having...

In light of the many texts that have been published recently which explore the vast history of the Ottoman Empire, a monograph has now appeared...

This volume is composed of twenty- four essays by many prominent figures in Ottoman studies in Europe as well as North America, with topics...

No other President of Iran has had comparable air time on international media outlets than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It was reported that the ticket to...