The Torn Republic: Turkey's Search for Civilizational Identity

Author/Contributor(s):	Yavuz, M Hakan
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	07/17/2026
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The Torn Republic provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of modern Turkey's political trajectory, connecting history, memory, and identity to explain the country's ongoing turmoil and shifting foreign policy. Yavuz argues that Turkey remains a "torn republic," caught between competing civilizational projects-Kemalism, Islamism, neo-Ottomanism, pan-Turkism, and Eurasianism-that continue to shape both domestic politics and international orientation.