
The Rise Of Right-Wing Authoritarianism In The Era Of Global Shift
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
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Bülent Gökay is a Professor of International Relations at Keele University, specialising in global political economy of resources in Eurasia. His books include The Politics of Oil (Routledge, 2006 and pb 2017) and The Fall of the US Empire: Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order (Pluto, 2012).

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