Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and Democracies (Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory)

In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Turkey's ability to create a secular, constitutional democracy within a predominantly Muslim population.Remaking Turkey provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how Turkey has achieved the possiblity of modernity and democracy in a Muslim social setting, as well as the important problems and challenges confronting this achievement.