San Antonio College Library

Sources of Turkeyʹs foreign policy behavior are often found in the ideological battle among four major ideological groups: secularist nationalism, Islamic nationalism, secular liberalism, and Islamic liberalism. Exploring the Ottoman origins of this ideological battle, this book moves on to discuss how rival identity groups competed to shape foreign policy in different periods of the Republican era. It traces the rise and decline of political parties...

This book examines the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through a perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Drawing on archival evidence and oral interviews, the author asks how the reforms were mediated and how citizens received, reacted to, and experienced them. It traces the experiences of the subaltern, the elites and the mediators-highlighting the relevance...

"Despite their historical importance, empires have received scant attention from social scientists. Now, Alexander J. Motyl examines the structure, dynamics, and continuing relevance of empire - and ask, "Why do empires decline? Why do some empires collapse? And why do some collapsed empires revive?"" "Rejecting choice-centered theories of imperial decline, Motyl maintains that the very structure of empires promotes decay and that decay in turn facilitates...

"The late twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power throughout the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts everywhere. Their jihad, or "Holy Struggle," aimed to establish a global Islamic state based solely on a strict interpretation of the Koran. Religious ideology proved a cohesive...