Why Turkey is Authoritarian

Why Turkey is Authoritarian
From Atatürk to Erdo¿an
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Artikel-Nr:
9780745337555
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.06.2018
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Halil Karaveli
Gewicht:
309 g
Format:
198x129x15 mm
Serie:
Left Book Club
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Halil Karaveli is a Senior Fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center, a US-Swedish think tank, and the editor of the Turkey Analyst. His articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs and the National Interest. He is the author of Why Turkey is Authoritarian (Pluto, 2018).
For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turkey is Authoritarian offers a radical challenge to this conventional narrative. Halil Karaveli highlights the danger in viewing events in Turkey as a war between a 'westernising' state and the popular masses defending their culture and religion, arguing instead for a class analysis that is largely ignored in the Turkish context. This book goes beyond cultural categories that overshadow more complex realities when thinking about the 'Muslim world', while highlighting the ways in which these cultural prejudices have informed ideological positions. Karaveli argues that Turkey's culture and identity have disabled the Left, which has largely been unable to transcend these divisions. This book asks the crucial question: why does democracy continue to elude Turkey? Ultimately, Karaveli argues that Turkish history is instructive for a left that faces the global challenge of a rising populist right, which succeeds in mobilising culture and identity to its own purposes. Published in partnership with the Left Book Club.
An important book that rejects the "east-west" thesis and focuses on class, culture and identity to understand Turkey's past, present and future

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