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Article: Turkey: A Changing Turkey: The Challenge to Europe and the United States
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- The Middle East Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Middle East Institute Winter 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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TURKEY
A Changing Turkey: The Challenge to Europe and the United States, by Heinz Kramer. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. xv + 248 pages. Notes to p. 293. Index to p. 304. $18.95.
Reviewed by Henri Barkey
Heinz Kramer has accomplished the impossible: he has produced an extremely well-written and comprehensive book on the dilemmas of modern Turkey. Kramer covers all topics ranging from the basic Kemalist ideology underlying the organization of the state, to the domestic and international challenges faced by Turkey.
Kramer's primary goal is to analyze contemporary Turkey's politics, situate this country in the post-Cold War environment, and discuss what it represents ...