Turkish Dynamics: Bridge across Troubled Lands (Middle East in Focus)
Book Details
Author(s)Ersin Kalaycioglu
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN1403962790
ISBN-139781403962799
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank5,303,790
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Turkey is a pivotal state whose domestic political, economic, and social developments have important implications across the globe. Here a leading Turkish political scientist enhances understanding of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cleavages along secular-religious lines, ethnicity, and social class. This work focuses on how the process of urbanization and industrialization has led to social mobilization and population movements from villages into the cities and how competition to control the state and its networks of patronage has made politics contentious and fragmented. Intertwined with Turkey's domestic political and economic dynamics are the influences of relations, including tensions, with important external actors.
