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...

This book is a rich and deeply engaging study of comparative travel and political theory. Bringing together Muslim and non-Muslim writers, Roxanne...

Anatoly Golitsyn’s New Lies for Old was published in 1984, when ‘Gorby’ was emerging. The book made waves, because the author, a defector from...

Readers might expect Tormented by History to be a new contribution to the vast literature of relations between Greece and Turkey, due to the shared...

Ruth Mandel’s brilliant work entitled Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany very eloquently proves...

Turkey between Democracy and Militarism: Post Kemalist Perspectives” provides a comprehensive picture of the struggle taking place in contemporary...

Since the 1980s, religious parties have enjoyed electoral success in a range of countries, raising questions about why religious movements have...