On this week’s POMEPS Podcast, Marc Lynch speaks with Lisel Hintz about the significance of this weekend’s constitutional referendum in…
Contemporary Turkish Politics
Turkey has been in the news repeatedly in 2016, from the coup attempt of July to the subsequent government purges…
The Clash of Islamists: The crisis of the Turkish state and democracy
By Sebnem Gumuscu, Middlebury College *This memo was prepared for presentation at the Contemporary Turkish Politics Workshop at Rice University’s…
Contemporary Turkish Politics
On October 14, more than a dozen scholars of Turkish politics came together at Rice University’s Baker Institute in Houston…
Turkey’s Democratic Struggles
Turkey’s Democratic Struggles POMEPS Briefing 26 — June 17, 2015 On June 7, Turkish voters denied a majority to the…
Turkey’s upcoming parliamentary elections
With Turkish parliamentary elections fast approaching on June 7, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is campaigning hard among Turkey’s religious electorate.…
Rethinking Nation and Nationalism
Rethinking Nation and Nationalism POMEPS Studies 14 — June 2, 2015 You couldn’t swing a dead imperialist last summer without hitting…
Week in Review: Islamic State in Palmyra and Saudi Arabia
This week on the Monkey Cage (click names for articles): Toby Matthiesen of the University of Cambridge evaluates sectarianism after…
Kurds, state elites, and patterns of nationhood in Iraq and Turkey
By Serhun Al, University of Utah * This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop held at…
Different faces of Turkish Islamic nationalism
By Senem Aslan, Bates College *This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop, February 6, 2015. On…