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...
Turkey’s Strategic Neutrality in the US–Israel War Against Iran*
The ongoing war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran presents a revealing case for understanding...
The dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East in recent years has renewed interest in a long-standing question: how should Iran’s foreign policy...
Beneath the visible structures of Anatolian political culture lies a deeper emotional and symbolic reservoir—one shaped not merely by institutions or ideologies, but by...
