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Turkish Secularism in Question
By a narrow vote, Turkey's Constitutional Court recently decided not to ban the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), accused of undermining the country's secular order. Responding to the news on The Immanent Frame, Markus Dressler argues that to reduce the conflict to one between Islamists and secularists is an oversimplification. Jenny White points out that the AKP, despite its conservatism and occasional Islamic rhetoric, compares favorably to a "militantly secular Fortress Turkey."
Publications
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009
Written, compiled, and edited by Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis, and Eduardo Borges Martins
Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States
Yasushi Watanabe and David L. McConnell
Darfur: A New History of a Long War (revised and updated)
Julie Flint and Alex de Waal
New at the SSRC
- ESSAY FORUM "Making Communications Research Matter," with contributions from scholars and others who advocate a closer relationship between communications research and policymaking. Open for comment.
- IN THE NEWS Op-eds on ICC controversy by Alex de Waal and Julie Flint in The Observer (13 July 08) and Washington Post (28 June 08). Just Schools editor Martha Minow interviewed by Rich Barlow: "Redefining Equality for Religious Schools," Boston Globe (21 June 08).
- REVIEWED Justice as Prevention and What Happened to the Women? (SSRC Books) in "Expanding the Boundaries of Traditional Justice," by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Ethics and International Affairs (Summer 2008).
- EVENT The SSRC and Columbia University will cosponsor a conference in honor of Hirschman Prize winner Charles Tilly on Oct. 3-5. (download tentative agenda). Also see our tributes to Charles Tilly and his article, "Memorials to Credit & Blame."
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