This book provides a study of the socio-political and cultural climate in Turkey in the aftermath of the Cold War, which resulted in a major voter re-alignment in the Turkish political system in the mid – 1990s. Except for a brief period of coalition governments, the country came under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), a conservative political party, which has been a coalition of pious Sunnis , liberals, Kurdish nationalists, former socialists, led by leaders from immaculate political Islamist backgrounds. Concomitantly, Turkish society has begun to experience increasing religiosity, authoritarianism, spreading lack of interpersonal trust and tolerance, increasing xenophobia, and anomie. The book delves into the sources of such a surge of conservatism, traditionalism, and parochialism in Turkey of the 1990s and 2000s. Data collected through nationally representative survey conducted in 2006 are analyzed to decipher the core driving forces of current Turkish society and politics in this book.

The Rising Tide of Conservatism in Turkey

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This major work trancends the conventional sub-cultures of academic history by bringing economic, social, military, and diplomatic history back together, where they belong. Allies at War represents a collaborative effort among British, American, and Russian scholars - with the Russian contributions being among the first fruits of access to Soviet archives - in which all the historians have attempted to set aside the accumulation of patriotic myth and political ideology that have characterized many Cold War studies of World War II. Strategy, economy, the home front, and foreign policy are each studied 'nationally' and then in the context of the other members of the alliance. Allies at War therefore represents a pioneering attempt to see the wartime alliance as both 'national' and 'international' history.

Allies at War: The Soviet, American, and British Experience, 1939-1945 (The World of the Roosevelts)

History

Warren F. Kimball

Americas

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Cesar Chavez: A Brief Biography With Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

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This invaluable volume gathers together the cumulative insight of more than fifty years of Leonard Swidler's work in interreligious dialogue. The founder and president of the Dialogue Institute, Swidler offers through experience and research his theory and tools of interreligious, intercultural, and international dialogue. Offering a "dialogue on dialogue", he explains why diatribe, debate, and other aggressive stances against those who think differently are ultimately unproductive and unhelpful. Swidler offers his tried-and-true methods for engaging in Deep-Dialogue, Critical-Thinking, Emotional-Intelligence, and Competitive-Cooperation, as well as "common sense" guidelines are made available for the novice and expert alike in order to break out of own perspective in order to have real encounter and dialogue.

Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding: Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions (Interreligious Studies in Theory and Practice)

Religion & Spirituality

Swidler, Leonard

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