Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction: Atatürk and Kemalism throughout the Twentieth Century

   1. Introduction: Atatürk and Kemalism throughout the Twentieth Century

      • Andrew Mango

      Pages 1-9

3. The State, Its Politics and International Relations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Nation Building and Its Challenges

      1. The Ottoman Educational Legacy

         • Benjamin C. Fortna

         Pages 15-26

      2. <i>Genç Kalemler</i> and Turkish Nationalism

         • Murat Belge

         Pages 27-37

      3. Nation Building and Feminism in Early Republican Turkey

         • Yeşim Arat

         Pages 38-51

   3. Islam, the Military and the State

      1. The Importance of Being Secular: Islam in the Service of the National and Pre-National State

         • Erik-Jan Zürcher

         Pages 55-68

      2. Transformation of Sufi-Based Communities in Modern Turkey: The Nakşibendis, the Nurcus, and the Gülen Community

         • Elizabeth Özdalga

         Pages 69-91

      3. Military and Politics in Turkey

         • Feroz Ahmad

         Pages 92-116

   4. Institutions and Public Policy

      1. The Turkish Grand National Assembly: New Challenges and Old Problems

         • Ersin Kalaycioğlu

         Pages 119-141

      2. University Governance in Turkey

         • İlter Turan

         Pages 142-164

      3. Opportunities, Freedoms and Restrictions: Women and Employment in Turkey

         • Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat

         Pages 165-189

      4. Poverty, Social Policy and Modernity in Turkey

         • Sencer Ayata

         Pages 190-209

      5. Forgotten Campaigns: A History of Disease in Turkey

         • Halis Akder

         Pages 210-235

   5. Turkey as International Actor

      1. Turkey and the Great Powers

         • Henri J. Barkey

         Pages 239-257

      2. The Evolution of Turkish National Security Strategy

         • Ian Lesser

         Pages 258-276

      3. Turkey’s Engagement with Europe: A History of Mutual Management

         • Nuri Yurdusev

         Pages 277-299

4. Society and Culture in Flux

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301

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   2. The Republic in Culture and Arts

      1. “Westernisation against the West”: Cultural Politics in the Early Turkish Republic

         • Orhan Koçak

         Pages 305-322

      2. The Turkish Novel: From Model of Modernity to Puzzle of Postmodernity

         • Nüket Esen

         Pages 323-335

Turkey's Enagement with Modernity explores how the country has been shaped in the image of the Kemalist project of nationalist modernity and how it has transformed, if erratically, into a democratic society where tensions between religion, state and society continue unabated.

• conflict
• democracy
• employment
• feminism
• governance
• Institution
• international relations
• liberty
• migration
• nationalism
• Policy
• politics
• poverty
• social policy
• The Republic
• european union politics
• us politics

'...does exactly what it promises...[it] will undoubtedly become a textbook that will be addressed in many political science courses in Turkey, and around the globe... It must be stated that the volume is a valuable and inspiring contribution to the existing academic literature on Turkey and will surely find its place in the syllabi of aspiring scholars of Turkey.' - Turkish Policy Quarterly

• St Antony’s College, Oxford University, UK

  Celia Kerslake, Kerem Öktem, Philip Robins

FEROZ AHMAD Professor and Head of the Department of History, Yeditepe University, Turkey HALIS AKDER Professor in the Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey ?AHIN ALPAY Professor of Politics, Bahçe?ehir University, Turkey EMRE ARACI is a freelance composer, conductor and musicologist based in the UK YE?IM ARAT Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bo?aziçi University, Turkey SENCER AYATA Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey HENRI J. BARKLEY Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University, USA MURAT BELGE Professor of Comparative Literature, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey SIBEL BOZDO?AN Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, USA NÜKET ESEN Head of Department and Professor of Turkish Language and Literature at Bo?aziçi University, Turkey BENJAMIN C. FORTNA Head of the Department of History and Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental& African Studies (SOAS), UK ZEHRA F. KABASAKAL ARAT Juanita and Jospeh Leff Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Purchase College of the State University of New York (SUNY), USA ERSIN KALAYCIO?LU Professor of Political Science at Istanbul Sabanc? University, USA IAN LESSER Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the UnitedStates ANDREW MANGO is a leading expert on Turkey. LEYLA NEYZI Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanc? University, Turkey AY?E ÖNCÜ Professor, Sabanc? University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Turkey ELISABETH ÖZDALGA Professor of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey JENNY WHITE Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University, USA NURI YURDUSEV Professor of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Turkey ERIK-JAN ZÜRCHER Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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