BOOKS
Turkey in the Middle East: Oil, Islam, and PoliticsAlon Liel, translated by Emanuel Lottem At the turn of the century, modern Turkey remains torn between the secular heritage of its founder, Kemal Ataturk, and the political and social trends that challenge that legacy. Alon Liel traces the development of Turkey's current political environment, investigating the collapse of the country's economy in the 1970s, its recovery in the 1980s, its relationship with its Middle Eastern More > |
Turkey in Transition: The Dynamics of Domestic and Foreign PoliticsGürkan Çelik and Ronald H. Linden, editors The ongoing turbulence in Turkey's domestic and international politics raises a number of crucial questions. What explains the movement toward one-party, and even one-person, rule? What role does Islam play in the ideology and policies of the ruling party and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan? Is the country's long commitment to secular rule a thing of the past—and if so, with what More > | ![]() |
Turkey in World Politics: An Emerging Multiregional PowerBarry Rubin and Kemal Kirisci, editors Once characterized by an avoidance of foreign entanglements, Turkey's diplomacy has changed dramatically in the present era of regional agreements and organizations. Tracing the evolution of that change, this comprehensive study explores the country's new international posture. The authors assess Turkey's policy toward Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the U.S., as well as its growing More > |
Turkish Short Stories from Four DecadesAziz Nesin, translated and introduced by Louis Mitler These twenty stories show the broad range of iconoclast, fabulist, realist, satirist, avant- gardist Aziz Nesin (1915-1995), long considered a major voice in contemporary Turkish fiction. Like many Turkish writers, Nesin was born into poverty, saw his work censured, and suffered imprisonment; as these stories demonstrate, however, his voice is very much his own, rich with insights into the social More > | ![]() |
Twinning Faith and Development: Catholic Parish Partnering in the US and HaitiTara Hefferan Twinning Faith and Development documents the operation of a project in which two Catholic churches— one in the US and one in Haiti—partner to spur development in Haiti. Hefferan explores development as it is conceived, designed, and implemented by those outside the conventional aid industry, those not considered to be development experts. She looks at both twinning’s failings and More > | ![]() |
U.S. Politics and the Global Economy: Corporate Power, Conservative ShiftRonald W. Cox and Daniel Skidmore-Hess This thoughtful, highly original book investigates the influence of globalization on ideology and politics in the United States. Cox and Skidmore-Hess argue that U.S. policy increasingly has been motivated less by anxiety about the independence and stability of the domestic economy and more by worry about factors that might limit the participation of U.S. corporations in international markets. More > |
UN Peacekeeping in Africa: From the Suez Crisis to the Sudan ConflictsAdekeye Adebajo Nearly half of all UN peacekeeping missions in the post–Cold War era have been in Africa, and the continent currently hosts the greatest number (and also the largest) of such missions in the world. Uniquely assessing five decades of UN peacekeeping in Africa, Adekeye Adebajo focuses on a series of questions: What accounts for the resurgence of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa after the Cold More > | ![]() |
Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human RightsLiam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren For years international accompaniment has been successfully implemented as a way to protect threatened human rights activists throughout the world. In this book, Mahoney and Eguren present examples of the inspirational practice from Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Interviews with those involved in international accompaniment, with the individuals who were being protected, and with More > | ![]() |
Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968Heda Margolius Kovály, translated by Franci Epstein and Helen Epstein with the author Heda Margolius Kovály (1919–2010) endured both the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and the brutality of Czechoslovakia's postwar Stalinist government. Her husband, after surviving Dachau and Auschwitz and becoming Czechoslovakia's deputy minister of foreign trade, was convicted of conspiracy in the infamous 1952 Slansky trial and then executed. This clear-eyed memoir of her life More > | ![]() |
Understanding and Preventing Car TheftMichael G. Maxfield and Ronald V. Clarke, editors Thefts of and from autos are among the most commonly reported crimes, and they account for the highest losses among property crimes that target individuals (except for arson). But according to this new book, recent initiatives in the U.S., Europe and Australia have proven effective or are showing promise in preventing car theft. More > |