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Description of  Turkey's State Crisis: Institutions, Reform, and Conflict (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)

What accounts for the regression of Turkeys stature from a model country to one riddled with state crisis and conflict? Unable to adapt to the challenges of the era and failing to respond to ethnic and multicultural political demands for reform, the Turkish state has resisted change and stuck to its ideological roots stemming from the 1930s. In Turkeys State Crisis, Aras delves into the historical, political, and geopolitical background of the countrys decline. In an effort to delineate the origin of the crisis, Aras investigates several perspectives: the political elites attempt to change the administrative system to create a performance-oriented one the bureaucracys response, concerns, and resistance to change the states conflict resolution capacity and the transformation of foreign/security policy. Providing a comprehensive portrait of the Turkish states turmoil, Aras creates a blueprint for the ways in which much-needed reforms can break vicious cycles of political polarization, rising authoritarianism, and weak state institutions. Read more