Beschreibung:
This book provides a broad and comprehensive overview of contemporary Turkey. Placing the country and its people within the context of a rapidly globalizing world, the book covers a diverse range of themes such as politics, economics, international relations, the Turkic world, religion and recent historical background.
1. Introduction: Globalization, Turks and Turkey 2. The Kemalist Legacy: Cult, Ideology and Political Practice 3. Kemalism and State Security 4. Turkey's Europeanization: A Journey Without an Arrival? 5. From Autarky to Globalization: Turkey's Economic Transition 6. Turkey and the Kurdish Issue: A Transnationalized Domestic Problem 7. A New Foreign Policy For A Globalized Age? 8. Turkey Between East and West: A Bridge or Afloat? 9. Between Consumers and Producers: Turkey as an Energy Bridge? 10. The Armenian Genocide: A Foreign Policy Problem in a Globalized World 11. Migration, Turkey and Turks 12. The Fethullah Gulen Movement (and Turkish Al Qaeda) as Transnational Phenomena 13. Conclusions