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Browsing Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) by Subject "Turkey"
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Title:Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa
Author(s):BEININ, Joel; VAIREL, FrédéricDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Middle East and North Africa have become places that almost everyone "knows" something about. Too frequently written off as culturally defined by Islam, strongly anti-Western, and uniquely susceptible to irrational ...
Title:From Millet to Nation: The Limits of Consociational Resolutions for Middle East Conflict
Author(s):SHIELDS, SarahDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper argues that Europeans worked to transform the bases for group affiliation in territories of
the former Ottoman Empire, insisting on national and linguistic self-identification that created
dissonance among the ...
Title:Turkey's Party System and the Paucity of Minority Policy Reform
Author(s):LIARAS, EvangelosDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of small and incremental reform in Turkish
minority policies over the last two decades, contrasting with the dramatic economic, social, and
political changes that the ...
Title:‘Those Crazy Turks’ that Got Caught in the ‘Metal Storm’: Nationalism in Turkey’s Best Seller Lists
Author(s):YANIK, Lerna K.Date:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Nationalism manifests itself in different forms and styles. This paper, through recently published books that have made to the best seller lists in Turkey, analyzes the rise of the nationalist wave in Turkey in the past ...
Title:Military Class and Perpetual State Control in Turkey
Author(s):KARABELIAS, GerassimosDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Although Turkey has, for more than eighty years, given the impression of a Middle Eastern country eager to apply liberal western institutional structures into its own political life and even join the European Union, it has ...
Title:Exogenous Pressures and Social Policy: Greece and Turkey in Comparative Perspective
Author(s):TSAROUHAS, Dimitris; BOLUKBASI, H. TolgaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper looks at contemporary social policy developments in Greece and Turkey in light of exogenous economic pressures in the period 1980s-2000s. Three sources of exogenous pressures, which allegedly lead to a reduction ...