Myth and Rhetoric of the Turkish Model

Description: Myth and Rhetoric of the Turkish Model Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Exploring Developmental Alternatives Author(s): Anita Sengupta Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer, India, Private Ltd, India Imprint: Springer, India, Private Ltd ISBN-13: 9788132217640, 978-8132217640 Synopsis The volume discusses what the Turkish Model, or Turkish Development Alternative, was and why it was promoted in the Central Asian republics immediately following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It argues that the Turkish Model was a myth that transferred the ideal of a ''secular, democratic, liberal society'' as a model for the post Soviet Turkic world and in the process encouraged a ''Turkic" rhetoric that emphasized connection between the two regions based on a common ancestry. The volume begins with an understanding of the reality of the Model from a Turkish perspective and then goes on to examine whether the Turkic world as a "cultural-civilizational alternative" makes sense both from a historical as well as contemporary perspective. It concludes by looking at the re-emergence of the Model in the wake of the events in West Asia in early 2011 and examines how in the light of a search for options the Turkish Model is once again projected as viable.

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