1st Edition
Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule
Introduction - Birol Yesilada and Barry Rubin 1. Changing Values in Turkey: Religiosity and Tolerance in a Comparative Perspective – Birol Yesilada and Peter Noordijk 2. Justice and Development Party at the Helm: Resurgence of Islam or Restitution of Right of Center Predominant Party? - Ersin Kalaycioglu 3. How neoliberalism and Turkish-Islamic synthesis contributed to the rise of Islamism and AKP in Turkey - Mustafa Sen 4. AKP Ideology - Zeyno Baran 5. Rejection of Kemalism and Laïcite by Turkish Liberals - Halil Karaveli 6. Islamist Imaginations of Turkey's Ottoman Past: Counter-Revolution through Culture and Politics - Kemal Silay 7. Turkey's New Elite in Charge: Case Studies in Turkey's Transformation through Government-led Social Conservatism - Soner Çagaptay 8. Turkish Foreign Policy Under the AKP - Sabri Sayari
Biography
Barry Rubin is the Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center; a senior fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism and Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He is the editor of the journal Turkish Studies; the editor of The Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA). His many books include The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (2005), Hating America: A History (2004) and The Tragedy of the Middle East (2002).
Birol Yesilada is Professor of Political Science and International Studies and holder of the Contemporary Turkish Studies Chair at Portland State University. He is co-editor-in-chief of International Studies Perspectives. He is the author of Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites and co-editor of The Political and Socioeconomic Transformation of Turkey.
