Turkey's Kurdish question (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998) par Hakan Yavuz

Les deux auteurs du livre sur la question kurde en Turquie passent en revue l'identité religieuse et l'ethnicité dans l'Empire ottoman avant de s'interroger sur le sens de la modernisation kémaliste. Ils consacrent également un chapitre à l'analyse du Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK)

Turkey's Kurdish question (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998) par Hakan Yavuz

Les deux auteurs du livre sur la question kurde en Turquie passent en revue l'identité religieuse et l'ethnicité dans l'Empire ottoman avant de s'interroger sur le sens de la modernisation kémaliste. Ils consacrent également un chapitre à l'analyse du Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK)

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDUSTRIALIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF TURKEY, 1960-80

This dissertation examines the relationship between industrialization strategies and the emergence of what Guillermo O\u27Donnell has termed the Bureaucratic Authoritarian State. More specifically, it addresses the causes of the decline and exhaustion of import substituting industrialization. Turkey was chosen as a case study because it experienced the twin crises of preatorianism and economic stagnation during the 1960-1980 period. Import substituting industrialization has been the single most influential industrialization strategy of modern times. It was seemingly easy to adopt and quick to produce results. Yet, in almost all of the cases where it had been implemented, its rapid success also spelled trouble. While there were and are inherent reasons for import substitution to create the conditions for its own demise, its ultimate exhaustion was a result of a complex set of political processes. This complex set of precesses was ultimately linked to intra-business conflict and its ramifications on governmental decision making. Competition among regional as well as functionally diversified industrial and/or commercial groups over the benefits to be accrued under import substitution created the conditions that led to a stalemate in the economic decision making process. While the dissertation demonstrates that some of O\u27Donnell\u27s propositions regarding the installation of authoritarian regimes can be transposed to areas other than Latin America, this case study also shows that the causes of the exhaustion of import substitution are due to factors other than those previously assumed to be inherent to the process itself. Specifically, the politicization of economic groups has played a more significant role in setting the scene for the ensuing crises. Therefore, the flaw does not lie in import substitution per se, but rather in those who implemented and benefited from it both in Turkey and elsewhere

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDUSTRIALIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF TURKEY, 1960-80

This dissertation examines the relationship between industrialization strategies and the emergence of what Guillermo O\u27Donnell has termed the Bureaucratic Authoritarian State. More specifically, it addresses the causes of the decline and exhaustion of import substituting industrialization. Turkey was chosen as a case study because it experienced the twin crises of preatorianism and economic stagnation during the 1960-1980 period. Import substituting industrialization has been the single most influential industrialization strategy of modern times. It was seemingly easy to adopt and quick to produce results. Yet, in almost all of the cases where it had been implemented, its rapid success also spelled trouble. While there were and are inherent reasons for import substitution to create the conditions for its own demise, its ultimate exhaustion was a result of a complex set of political processes. This complex set of precesses was ultimately linked to intra-business conflict and its ramifications on governmental decision making. Competition among regional as well as functionally diversified industrial and/or commercial groups over the benefits to be accrued under import substitution created the conditions that led to a stalemate in the economic decision making process. While the dissertation demonstrates that some of O\u27Donnell\u27s propositions regarding the installation of authoritarian regimes can be transposed to areas other than Latin America, this case study also shows that the causes of the exhaustion of import substitution are due to factors other than those previously assumed to be inherent to the process itself. Specifically, the politicization of economic groups has played a more significant role in setting the scene for the ensuing crises. Therefore, the flaw does not lie in import substitution per se, but rather in those who implemented and benefited from it both in Turkey and elsewhere

Turkish-American relations in the post-war era: an alliance of convenience.

Donated by Klaus Kreise

Turkey's new engagement in Iraq : embracing Iraqi Kurdistan

Henri J. Barke