...Yasin Aktay The “political” has been absent from Turkish foreign policy because the main difficulties facing the country were considered almost constitutive elements of Turkish national existence, so that they are kept incurable. This essay includes a brief history of the absence of the political...

... agencies and a deteriorating govern- ment record on human rights and liberties.”30 The political system, which was established by the military junta in the early 1980s, was aimed at social order and de-politicization of society so as to prevent the reoccurrence of political unrest that afflicted...

...Zafer Yilmaz The Gezi uprising can be considered a crucial turning in Turkish politics. As a response to countrywide democratic protests, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government revived the security state, escalated authoritarian tendencies, and started to organize a nationalist...

... of the international community triggered the rise of radical Islamic actors. This result was not simply a product of diplomatic incompetence but an indirect result of the foreign community’s different perspectives and aims during the crisis. This essay attempts to draw conclusions from the political economy...

...Dominique Maillard Dominique Maillard is vice dean in charge of international relations at the Université Paris-Est Créteil. Grigoriadis Ioannis N. : Trials of Europeanization: Turkish Political Culture and the European Union . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 . 424...

...Kostas Rontos; Luca Salvati; Petros Sioussiouras; Ioannis Vavouras The authors propose a classification of the perceived corruption levels of Mediterranean countries according to key political, economic, and social factors. While relevant empirical research has shown the extent of corruption...

...Timothy C. Kroboth Timothy C. Kroboth is a data management assistant for the Global Learning Initiative at Winthrop University. He studied at the American University in Cairo in 2010. Haas Mark L. : The Clash of Ideologies: Middle Eastern Politics and American Security...

...Jonathan Swarts Jonathan Swarts is associate professor of political science at Purdue University North Central, Westville, Indiana. Draenos Stan : Andreas Papandreou: The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick . London : I. B. Tauris , 2012 . 340 pages . ISBN...

... the University of Washington. He would like to thank Resat Kasaba, Selim Kuru, Scott Radnitz, Wolfram Latsch, and Alex Segall for their advice and help during the writing process. Copyright 2014 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2014 Dogan versus Erdogan: Business and Politics in AKP-­Era Turkey...

... a political settlement that adequately safeguards Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot interests. This essay traces Turkish policy in Cyprus since 1974 and explains how the Turkish government led by the Justice and Development Party revised Ankara’s Cyprus policy to advance Turkey’s accession to the European Union...

...Burak Erdenir This essay analyzes the change in value orientations of Turkish society in recent decades with reference to the Europeanization process the country has been going through, particularly that embodied in the European Union accession process. As the Europeanization of Turkish political...

... movement is more politicized. The secularism that Bourguiba used to advance the country bears deeper implications today, as members of the new generation transcend the values that Ghannouchi espoused in 1970 and look to a more effective ideology to resist the political status quo. The Rise...

...Van Coufoudakis Van Coufoudakis is professor emeritus of political science at Indiana University–Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Pappas Takis S. : Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . 152 pages . ISBN 978-113741-057-3 . $82...

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... of Shared Sacred Sites: Religion, Politics, and Resolution . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . ISBN 978-0-231-16994-3 . $50 (hardcover). Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Reviews  135 mistakes at all levels...

... of the populace. In parallel with Cizre’s argument that, contrary to very well-known and almost institutionalized Turkish discourse of “a military out of politics,” the narra- tives imply that the politicization of the Turkish military is produced not “out of” the politics but “against” politics...

... through the perspective of Greece's half-century-long relationship with the European Union and against a backdrop of personal observations and comment, relevant public sentiments, and critical events defining each period discussed. George Bistis is an award-winning journalist and political analyst...

... of the graduate program in international relations at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. The Face of Kosovar Albanian Nationalism: A Violent and Volatile Transformation of the Balkan Political Landscape Donald A. Graczyk and Symeon A. Giannakos...

...Barbara Franz Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Barbara Franz is assistant professor of political science at Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Europe’s Muslim Youth: An Inquiry into the Politics of Discrimination, Relative...

...Filip Kovacevic Filip Kovacevic is a professor at the University of Montenegro. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Montenegro and the Politics of Postcommunist Transition: 1990 to 2006 Filip Kovacevic I was promoted to be a major...