Journal of International Affairs articles from September 2000

Journal of International Affairs archives from September 2000

Turkey and Israel: Reciprocal and Mutual Imagery in the Media, 1994-1999.
September 22, 2000... "Situated at the crossroad between East and West, Turkey and Israel think of themselves as possessing a partially European identity in the `rough neighborhood' of the Middle East. Geographic proximity and historical interactions with Europe...

Editors' Foreword.
September 22, 2000... Choosing the two topics that are covered in each year's Journal is always a process debated at length. It is rare that a single country is chosen as the focus for an entire issue; until this year, only China and Mexico had been awarded this...

Turkey at a Crossroad.
September 22, 2000... "As the country faces a new century, the ideological, cultural, political and economic debates that are flourishing in all sections of society directly question the centrality of state institutions and practices and promise to take Turkey in a...

Cleansing Islam from the Public Sphere(1).
September 22, 2000... "Modern Turkey, like a transgendered body with the soul of one gender in the body of another, is in constant tension.... The soul of white Turkey and its Kemalist identify is in constant pain and conflict with the national body politic of...

Indentity Crises and Political Instability in Turkey.
September 22, 2000... "Political changes need to be publicly negotiated, not imposed on society. Only a national consensus based on a new social contract--not force---can take the country beyond its self-generated conflicts, isolation and authoritarianism." The...

The Ottoman Legacy and Turkish Politics.
September 22, 2000... "The absence of civil society in Turkey was an inheritance from the Ottoman Empire, where political, economic and social power coalesced in the center." Continuity rather than change characterizes Turkish political culture. Ottoman...

The Struggles of a "Strong" State.
September 22, 2000... "The process of transition to the European Union--even if success is a long way off--is likely to force Turkey to undertake significant changes that will make the state smaller, more efficient, less repressive and intrusive and, yet, genuinely...

From Emancipation To Liberation: The Changing Role of Women in Turkey's Public Realm.
September 22, 2000... "Even though women have not altered the fundamental understandings of secularism and nationalism in the country, they have exposed the limitations of these concepts. Women have developed a language with which they can now redefine their...

Corruption: The Turkish Challenge.
September 22, 2000... "When countries such as Turkey with weak law enforcement and lack of transparency undertake massive economic reforms that involve lucrative privatization deals, corruption may eat away at the system." A Stanford political science professor...

Who Guards the Turkish Press? A Perspective on Press Corruption in Turkey.
September 22, 2000... "The press becomes corrupt when it tolerates what it knows to be false and becomes an apologist for what it itself has condemned as wrong." Quis custodiet custodiens or "who guards the guardians" is a conundrum which open societies claim...

Turkish Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: The Challenges of Multi-Regionalism.
September 22, 2000... "Observers have described Turkey's efforts to chart its course in the new international system in such terms as a policy of `near activism' or one that displayed signs of both `daring and caution.' However, this [does] not imply the abandonment...

Turkey in a Changing Security Environment.
September 22, 2000... "[O]ne can no longer measure Turkey's strategic importance in purely geographic terms.... Those factors remain--but Ankara is also an increasingly capable security actor in its own right, with the resources and the willingness to use military...

The Evolution of the National Security Culture and the Military in Turkey.
September 22, 2000... "Turkey's cultural environment has influenced its quest for security through alliances, its circumspect foreign policy and the persistent efforts of successive governments to embrace the West." Like any social behavior, modern Turkey's...

Turkey and Eurasia: Opportunities and Risks in the Caspian Pipeline Derby.
September 22, 2000... "In the decade ahead, Turkey will continue to face geo-political uncertainty in its relations with Russia and the Caspian Sea region, driven until now by the contentious interaction between Russian and US policies in the Caspian region." ...

The Political Economy of Turkish Inflation.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... "Recent Turkish macroeconomic history, including the crisis of 1999 and the current disinflation program, can only be presented and analyzed adequately by understanding Turkish inflation, whence it came and to where it is going." After the...

Neoliberal Globalization and the Democracy Paradox: The Turkish General Elections of 1999.
September 22, 2000... "The deep sense of uncertainty, and the feeling of rootlessness produced by globalization have clearly contributed to the rise of often authoritarian forms of identity politics to the center stage in the political arena." Naeoliberal...

Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey Andrew Mango (New York, NY: Overlook Press, 2000) 666 pp., with 16 pp. of illus. A Visitor to Turkey is immediately struck by the ubiquitous Presence of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Not...

Turkey-Anglo-American Security Interests 1945-1952: The First Enlargement of NATO.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ekavi Athanassopoulou (Frank Cass Publishers: London, 1999) 274 pp. "Muddling through is a prerogative granted only to great powers," the Greek dictator, Ioannis Metaxas, once commented wryly The protracted course of events that ultimately...

Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ergun Ozbudun (Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2000) 144 pp. The near-decade since communism's demise has seen the passing of an initial euphoria over the sudden flowering of political participation by people in countries where such...

Contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Yasemin Celik (Westport, CE: Praeger Publishers, 1999) 208 pp. Yasemin Celik's Contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy might better e called "An Introduction to the History of Turkish Foreign Policy." Although Ms. Celik, a professor of...

Seventy-Five Years of the Turkish Republic.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Seventy-Five Years of the Turkish Republic Sylvia Kedourie, Editor (Essex, England: Frank Cass Publishers, 2000), 256 pp. After three-quarters of a century as a Republic, Turkey continues to face instability, contradiction and numerous...

Glossary.
September 22, 2000... Adab tradition--The statist political tradition of the Ottoman Empire. Alevis--A Shiite sect in Turkey Anatolian Tigers--Cities in Anatolia that have been marked by strong, high-tech driven economic growth in the 1990s. Includes...

Chronology.(Turkish history)
September 22, 2000... 552 First mention of T'u-kue tribe in Central Asia. 751 Chinese Buddhists driven out of Central Asia by Arab Muslim armies, opening the way for Turkish conversion to Islam. 861 Turkish slave soldiers...