Companion to Modern Turkey's Centennial

Explores the evolution of modern Turkey its past, current situation and potential future trajectories from an interdisciplinary perspective52 original chapters from an interdisciplinary group of world-leading scholars 7 parts examine the founding of the republic; political ideologies in Turkey; governance challenges and politics; conflicts and protracted political fault-lines; foreign policy; economy, development and environment; and society and cultureCovers a wide range of cultural, sociological, economical, institutional and political points of view of contemporary TurkeyBringing together rigorous, original scholarship from over 60 contributors from different disciplines and from around the globe, this reference volume examines Turkey's evolution from the early days of the Republic to the present time and on to its potential futures, offering a critical portrait of a vibrant country at a crossroads. This rich volume explores aspects from political ideologies to economic development, and from foreign policy to society and culture.Since its birth in 1923, modern Turkey is a nation that has experienced paramount transformation: politically, socially, economically, institutionally and structurally. The changes over the last century have sent and continue to send ripples throughout the wider Middle East, the Balkans, Europe, Asia and the Arab World.

Professor Alpaslan zerdem is the Dean of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at George Mason University. He is the author of seven books, most recently International Peacebuilding: An Introduction (with S.Y. Lee, Routledge, 2015) and the editor of several volumes, including The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics (with M. Whiting, Routledge, 2019). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Online Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security (published by UK think-tank Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis) and a frequent contributor to The Conversation.Dr Ahmet Erdi zt rk is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations and Politics at London Metropolitan University and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Coventry University in the UK and GIGA in Germany. He is also an associate researcher (Chercheur Associ ) at Institut Fran ais d' tudes Anatoliennes and editor of International Journal of Religion. He was a Swedish Institute Pre and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), at Link ping University, Scholar in Residence at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is the author of more than 20 articles, numerous policy reports, opinion pieces and co-editor of four special issues and two books on religion and politics and Turkish politics. He is a regular contributor to media outlets such as Open Democracy, The Conversation, Huffington Post and France 24.