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MERIA News - Volume 12, Issue 1 - February 2008
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MERIA JOURNAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

TURKISH STUDIES TABLE OF CONTENTS

NEW GLORIA CENTER WEBSITE
 

Table of Contents for MERIA Journal, Volume 12, Number 1 (March 2008)
The March 2008 issue of MERIA Journal will be out shortly and sent to all subscribers. The following articles will appear:

  1. Jonathan Spyer, “Lebanon 2006: Unfinished War”
  2. Ofira Seliktar, “Ignorance Cannot Be Realistic: A Critique of the Mearsheimer-Walt Thesis”
  3. Robert Looney, “Impediments to Stability in Iraq: The Elusive Economic Dimension”
  4. Ronen Zeidel, “Harsh Readjustment: The Sunnis and the Political Process in Contemporary Iraq”
  5. Ana Soage, “Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Portrait of a Leading Islamic Thinker”
  6. Sherko Kirmanj, “The Relationship Between Traditional and Contemporary Islamist Political Thought”
  7. Isaac Kfir, “Pakistan on the Tightrope”

Table of Contents for Turkish Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (March 2008)
The Spring 2008 issue of Turkish Studies will be available soon. The following articles will appear:

  1. Tarik Oğuzlu, “Middle Easternization of Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Does Turkey Dissociate from the West?”
  2. Paul Kubicek, “Turkey's Inclusion in the Atlantic Community: Looking Back, Looking Forward”
  3. Michelangelo Guida, “The Sèvres Syndrome and ‘Komplo’ Theories in the Islamist and Secular Press”
  4. Yüksel Taşkın, “AKP’s Move to ‘Conquer’ the Center-Right: Its Prospects and Possible Impacts on the Democratization Process”
  5. Emrullah Uslu, “Ulusalcılik: The Neo-Nationalist Resurgence in Turkey”
  6. Özlem Demirtaş Bagdonas, “The Clash of Kemalisms?: Reflections on the Past and the Present Politics of Kemalism in Turkish Political Discourse”
  7. Toni Alaranta, “Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s Six-Day Speech of 1927: Defining the Official Historical View of the Foundation of the Turkish Republic”
  8. Sule L. Aker, “Major Determinants of Imports in Turkey”
  9. Arzu Alvan, “An Analysis of the Growth of the Turkish Manufacturing Industry”

The following book reviews will also appear:

  1. Sina Akşin, Turkey from Empire to Revolutionary Republic: The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to Present. Reviewed by Nur Bilge Criss
  2. Sam Kaplan, The Pedagogical State: Education and Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey. Reviewed by Metin Heper
  3. Hovann H. Simonian (ed.), The Hemshin: History, Society, and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey. Reviewed by Michael E. Meeker
  4. M. Hakan Yavuz (ed.), The Emergence of a New Turkey: Democracy and the AK Parti. Reviewed by Frank Tachau
  5. Justin McCarthy, Esat Arslan, Cemalettin Taskiran, and Omer Turan, The Armenian Rebellion at Van. Reviewed by Norman Stone

New GLORIA Center Website

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  1. All projects updated and Global Survey of Turkish Studies Scholars greatly expanded with many new entries. http://www.gloriacenter.org/index.asp?pname=submenus/tsi/scholars/index.asp.


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