Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s visit to Paris for the September 17 preparatory meeting on support for the Lebanese Armed Forces and Internal Security Forces comes at a potentially transformative moment for Lebanon. The meeting, convened at the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron, is formally concerned with financial assistance, military equipment, training, and institutional capacity. But its political significance goes considerably further.
At stake is...
Your book is organized around four major historical moments: the Early Republic, the Cold War, the Özal period, and Erdoğan’s neo-patrimonial era. How should readers understand the scope and ambition of this book?
This book should be read as a major interpretive history of modern Turkey. In that sense, it enters into conversation with two classic works: Bernard Lewis’s The Emergence of Modern Turkey and...
