Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and Democracies (Global Encounters : Studies in Comparative Political Theory)
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: October 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780739118153
Subjects: Contemporary Politics - Middle East; Nationalism; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; General; Middle East - Turkey; Political Science / General; Government - Comparative; International Relations - General; 1980-; Democracy; Politics and government; Turkey
Description: "In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Turkey's ability to create a secular, constitutional democracy within a predominantly Muslim population. Remaking Turkey provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how Turkey has achieved the possibility of modernity and democracy in a Muslim social setting, as well as the important problems and challenges confronting this achievement."--BOOK JACKET.