It would be a serious error to interpret the authoritarian drive in Turkey through a cultural/civilizational lens: it is not an extreme move by a power-crazy dictator, still less the finally unveiled predictable outcome of political Islam’s strategy. It is not the result of a ‘clash of civilizations’ between Islam and the secular West, in […]
Bulent Gokay
Bulent Gokay is a Professor of International Relations at Keele University, specialising in global political economy of resources in Eurasia. He is the author of The Politics of Oil (Routledge, 2006 and pb 2017), Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 1920-1991: Soviet Foreign Policy, Turkey and Communism (Routledge, 2012), and The Fall of the US Empire: Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order (Pluto, 2012) among others.