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Soner Cagaptay - The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century´s First Muslim Power - 9781612346502 - V9781612346502
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The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century´s First Muslim Power

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Description for The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century´s First Muslim Power Hardback. Turkey is positioned to become the twenty-first century's first Muslim power. Based on a dynamic economy and energetic foreign policy, Turkey's growing engagement with other countries has made it a key player in the newly emerging multidirectional world order. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.

Turkey, which has always held an important position in global affairs, has become even more prominent on the international stage as an economic power and a harbinger of political Islam.

During more than ten years in power—an unprecedented tenure—Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) have expanded Turkey’s trade, diplomatic ties, and cultural exports to transform the country from an economically disadvantaged secular state into the first large Muslim nation with a middle-class majority. Erdogan has asserted Turkish influence in high-stakes, high-profile foreign issues from Gaza to Egypt to Syria, often breaking ranks with ... Read more

The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century’s First Muslim Power is a guide to the country’s changes, both in its inspiring national potential and in the grave challenges it poses to regional affairs. Structured as a travelogue, each chapter opens on a different Turkish city and captures a new theme of Turkey’s transformation. From the Kurdish issue to foreign policy, Soner Cagaptay argues that Turkey needs to successfully balance its Muslim identity with its Western orientation in order to solidify its position as a regional and global power.

 

 

 


 

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Product Details

Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
438g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781612346502
SKU
V9781612346502
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Soner Cagaptay
SONER CAGAPTAY is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. A historian by training, Dr. Cagaptay has written extensively on U.S.-Turkey relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism. He has taught courses at Yale University, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. From 2006 ... Read more

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