This revised and updated version of William Hale's Turkish Foreign Policy 1774-2000 offers
a comprehensive and analytical survey of Turkish foreign policy since the last quarter of the …

There is a growing realization among international relations scholars and practitioners that
religion is a critical factor in global politics. The Iranian Revolution, the September 11 …

Is Turkish nationalism simply a product of Kemalist propaganda from the early Turkish
Republic or an inevitable consequence of a firm and developing'Turkish'identity? How do …

This articles focuses on the historical evaluations of Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs
(the Diyanet) since its foundation and tries to explain the importance of some of the …

The transformation of the character of the European Union and the diffusion of European
norms facilitated a drastic improvement of minority rights in Greece in the 1990s …

This study explores the competition for Turkey's Kurdish vote through the instrumentalization
of religion, ethnicity and victimhood in political competition. This becomes possible through …

IN RECENT YEARS, ON MAY 29, A VISITOR to Istanbul interested in escaping the crowds of
foreign tourists at the city's many famous monuments and museums easily might have …

Scholars of nationalism and ethnicity have long studied when and how nationalist
discourses on the one hand and national and ethnic identities on the other are often socially …

Scholars have primarily debated the anatomy of T urkishness within the framework of an
ethnic versus civic dichotomy. Arguing that such an approach would be inconclusive and …

Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey tackles a theoretical puzzle in
understanding the state policy changes toward minorities and nationhood, first by placing …