On this week’s POMEPS Podcast, Marc Lynch speaks with Lisel Hintz about the significance of this weekend’s constitutional referendum in…
POMEPS Studies 22: 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.…
POMEPS Studies 14: 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…