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ERGUN ÖZBUDUN, Contemporary Turkish Politics:Challenges to Democratic Consolidation (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2000). Pp. 181.$49.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2002

Frank Tachau
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Based on Professor Özbudun's lectures at Bilkent University, this book is at once compact, highly readable, and very insightful. Unlike much current literature on Turkey, the analysis is set in a broad and informed comparative context. Turkey, the author points out, has been left out of comparative political studies, particularly those encompassing the Middle East and southern Europe, in which arguably it could (or should) have been included. Scholarly neglect thus reflects real-world politics: Turkey falls between two worlds, one of which it once largely controlled, the other to which it currently aspires to belong. This lacuna is one of the factors that persuaded Özbudun to publish this volume.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , November 2001 , pp. 657 - 660
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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