xviii, 240, [6] pages. Maps. Figure. Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ink

xviii, 240, [6] pages. Maps. Figure. Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ink numbers, comments, underlining, and marginal marks noted. Some cover soiling. Soner Cagaptay (1970) is a Turkish-American political scientist based in the United States. He is director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is a historian and is an expert on Turkey-United States relations, Turkish politics, and Turkish nationalism. Cagaptay received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 2003. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Turkish nationalism. His research languages include French, German, Spanish, Bosnian, Hebrew, Azerbaijani, and Ottoman Turkish. Derived from a Kirkus review: Cagaptay argues for a liberal path to securing the country's future in this well-researched treatise. He shows how Turkey's president Erdog an, is taking the country in the opposite direction. Cagaptay narrates Erdog an's rise to power on the wave of conservative nationalist politics washing over other countries. The author is fair-minded in crediting Erdog an with reviving Turkey's economy and bringing much of the nation out of poverty and into the middle class. Cagaptay shows that Erdog an has gained power by demonizing his opponents, badly dividing the country, with the possible consequence of civil war. The failed coup in the summer of 2016 allowed Erdog an to consolidate and extend his authority in the name of stability. Erdog an 's foreign policy forays have been failures, leaving him with little support from Middle Eastern countries while alienating the E.U., U.S., and Russia. This is a new edition of the leading work on Modern Turkey. In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicenter. And at the heart of Turkey is its populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Since 2002, Erdogan has consolidated his hold on domestic politics while using military and diplomatic means to solidify Turkey as a regional power. His crackdown has been consistent-scores of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and many of the highest-ranking military officers arrested. In some senses, the failed 2016 coup has given Erdogan the license to make good on his promise to bring order and stability. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at Erdogan's roots in Turkish history, what he believes in and how he has cemented his rule, as well as what this means for the world. The book will also unpick the 'threats' Erdogan has worked to combat-from the liberal Turks to the Gulen movement, from coup plotters to Kurdish nationalists-all of which have culminated in the current situation of modern Turkey.

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.