Turkish State and Society
Fall 2007
Dilek Barlas
Required Readings:
Barlas, Dilek. Etatism and Diplomacy in Turkey. Leiden: Brill, 1998, pp: 42-111.
Barkey, Karen and Mark Von Hagen, After Empire. Colorado: Westview Press, 199, pp: 30-45.
Bozdoğan, Sibel and Reşat Kasaba, Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1997, pp: 15-37.
Deringil, Selim. The Well-Protected Domains. London: İ. B. Tauris, 1998, pp: 1-16 and 166-177.
Diamond, Larry. Political Culture and Democracy in Developing Countries. Boulder: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 1993, pp: 247-269.
Finkel, Andrew and Nükhet Sırman, eds. Turkish State, Turkish Society. London: Routledge, 1990, pp:
139-185.
Hanioğlu, Şükrü. The Young Turks in Opposition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp: 200-216,
Kafadar, Cemal. Between Two Worlds. California: University of California Press, 1995, pp: 19-28.
Kalaycıoğlu, Ersin. Turkish Dynamics. NY: Palgrave, 2005, pp: 1-67.
Mardin, Şerif. Religion, Society and Modernity in Turkey. NY: Syracuse University Press, 206, pp: 2344 and 298-316.
Migdal, Joel S., Atul Kohli and Vivienne Shue, eds. State Power and Social Forces. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp: 207-231.
Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce: Kemalizm İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 200, pp: 97-112 and 235246.
Öniş, Ziya. “Conservative Globalists versus Defensive Nationalists: Political Parties and Paradoxes of
Europeanization in Turkey” will be published in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, pp: 1-22.
------------ and Fikret Şenses, “Global Dynamics, Domestic Coalitions and a Reactive State: Major Policy
Shifts in Post-War Turkish Economic Development” will be published in METU Studies, pp: 1-35.
Pamuk, Şevket. “Economic Change in Twentieth Century Turkey: Is the Glass More than Half Full?” The
AUP Visiting Scholar Working Paper Series, 2007, pp: 1-32.
Parla, Taha & Andrew Davison, Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey. NY: Syracus University Press,
2004, pp: 244-267.
Quataert, Donald. The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp:
54-74.
Sunar, İlkay. State, Society and Democracy in Turkey. İstanbul: Bahçeşehir University Publications,
2004, pp: 65-133.
Tekeli, İlhan -Selim İlkin. Cumhuriyetin Harcı, Köktenci Modernitenin Ekonomik Politikasının
Gelişimi. İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2004, pp: 363-409.
Zürcher, Erik Jan. Savaş, Devrim ve Uluslaşma, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2005, pp:
139-155.
Recommended Readings:
Ahmad, Feroz Demokrasi Sürecinde Türkiye. İstanbul: Hil Yayın, 1994.
------------------ The Making of Modern Turkey. London: Routledge, 1993.
------------------ Turkey : the quest for identity
Berkes, Niyazi. The Development of Secularism in Turkey. Montreal: McGill University Pres, 1964.
Bilgin, Nuri ed. Cumhuriyet, Demokrasi ve Kimlik. İstanbul: Bağlam, 1997.
Boratav, Korkut. Türkiye İktisat Tarihi, 1908-2002 Ankara : İmge, 2005.
Buğra, Ayşe. State and Business in Modern Turkey : a comparative study Albany, N.Y. : State
University of New York Press, 1994.
Deringil, Selim. Denge Oyunu. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları,1994.
Kazancığil, Ali and Ergun Özbudun. Atatürk, Founder of Modern State. London: Hurst & Company, 1997.
Keyder, Çağlar. State and Class in Turkey. London: verso, 1987.
Koçak, Cemil. Türkiye’de Milli Şef Dönemi. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları1986.
Kuruç, Bilsay. Belgelerle Türkiye İktisat Politikası. Ankara: Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler
Fakültesi, 1993.
Ortaylı, İlber. İmparatorluğun En Uzun Yüzyılı. İstanbul : Hil Yayın, 1987.
Pamuk, Şevket. Osmanlı Ekonomisinde Bağımlılık ve Büyüme. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları,
1994.
Tekeli, İlhan -Selim İlkin. 1929 Dünya Buhranında Türkiye’nin İktisadi Politika Arayışları. Ankara:
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, 1983.
------------------------------- Uygulamaya Geçerken Türkiye’de Devletçiliğin Oluşumu. Ankara: Orta Doğu
Teknik Üniversitesi, 1982.
Toprak, Zafer. İttihat-Terakki ve Devletçilik. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 1995.
Van Bruinessen, Martin. Agha, Shaikh and State. London: Zed Boks LTD. 1992
Zürcher, Erik Jan. Turkey, a Modern History. London: İ. B. Tauris,1995.
Course Requirements:
Grading will be as follows:
-discussions: 20%
-short paper: 30%
-final paper: 50%
Academic Honesty:
Class Schedule:
Week I: 18 and 20 September
Introduction
Cemal Kafadar, Between Two Worlds. California: University of California Press, 1995, pp: 1928.
Week II: 25 and 27 September
Historical Background
Donald Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, pp: 54-74 and Çağlar Keyder, “The
Ottoman Empire”, in After Empire, pp: 30-45.
Week III: 2 and 4 October
Center-Periphery Relations
Şerif Mardin, “Power, Civil Society, and Culture in the Ottoman Empire”, and “Center-Periphery
as a Concept for the Study of Social Transformation”, in Religion, Society and Modernity in
Turkey, pp: 23-44 and 298-316.
Week IV: 9 and 11 October (holiday)
Questioning Modernity
Reşat Kasaba, “Kemalist Certainties and Modern Ambiguities”, in Rethinking Modernity and
National Identity in Turkey, pp: 15-37 and “A Time and a Place for the Nonstate: Social
Change in the Ottoman Empire during the Long Nineteenth Century” in State Power and Social
Forces, pp: 207-231
Week V: 16 and 18 October
Transitional Period
Selim Deringil, the Well-Protected Domains. London: İ. B. Tauris, 1998, pp: 1-16 and 166-177.
Şükrü Hanioğlu, The Young Turks in Opposition, pp: 200-216, and Erik Jan Zürcher, “Jön
Türkler: Sınır Bölgelerinin Çocukları”, in Savaş, Devrim ve Uluslaşma, pp: 139-155.
Week VI: 23 and 25 October
Ottoman Heritage
Ergun Özbudun, “State Elites and Democratic Political Culture in Turkey” in Political Culture
and Democracy in Developing Countries, pp: 247-269 and Erik Jan Zürcher, “Türkiye
Cumhuriyeti’nin Osmanlı Mirası: Yeni Bir Dönemselliştirme Denemesi”, in Savaş, Devrim ve
Uluslaşma, pp: 45-63
Week VII: 30 October and 1 November
Kemalism
Levent Köker, Kemalizm/Modernleşme, Devlet ve Demokrasi”, and Ali Kazancığil, “AntiEmperyalist Bağımsızlık İdeolojisi ve Üçüncü Dünya Ulusçuluğu Olarak Kemalizm”, in
Kemalizm, pp: 97-112 and 235-246, and Taha Parla & Andrew Davison, Corporatist Ideology
in Kemalist Turkey, pp: 244-267.
Week VIII: 6 and 8 November
Etatism
Dilek Barlas, Etatism and Diplomacy in Turkey, pp: 42-111.
Week IX: 13 and 15 November
Economic Policies
İlhan Tekeli-Selim İlkin, Cumhuriyetin Harcı, Köktenci Modernitenin Ekonomik
Politikasının Gelişimi, pp: 363-409.
Week X: 20 and 22 November
Political and Cultural Revolutions
Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, Turkish Dynamics, pp: 1-67
Week XI: 27 and 29 November
Transition to Democracy
Bülent Tanör, “The Place of Parliament in Turkey” pp: 139-159, Ayşe Güneş-Ayata, “Class and
Clientelism in the Republican People’s Party” pp: 159-185 in Turkish State, Turkish Society
and İlkay Sunar, “Populism and Patronage: The Demokrat Party and Its Legacy in Turkey”, in
State, Society and Democracy in Turkey. Bahçeşehir University Publications, 2004, pp: 121133.
Week XII: 4 and 6 December
State and Society Relations
İlkay Sunar and Sabri Sayarı, “Democracy in Turkey: Problems and Prospects”, and İlkay Sunar,
“State, Society and Democracy in Turkey” in State, Society and Democracy Turkey. İstanbul:
Bahçeşehir University Publications, 2004, pp: 65-119.
Week XIII: 11 and 13 December
Economic Policies Changes
Ziya Öniş and Fikret Şenses, “Global Dynamics, Domestic Coalitions and a Reactive State:
Major Policy Shifts in Post-War Turkish Economic Development” will be published in METU
Studies, pp: 1-35, and Şevket Pamuk, “Economic Change in Twentieth Century Turkey: Is the
Glass More than Half Full?” The AUP Visiting Scholar Working Paper Series, 2007, pp: 1-32.
Week XIV: 18 and 20 December (holiday)
Turkey and Globalism
Ziya Öniş, “Conservative Globalists versus Defensive Nationalists: Political Parties and
Paradoxes of Europeanization in Turkey” will be published in Journal of Southern Europe and
the Balkans, pp: 1-22.
Week XV: 25 and 27 December
Conclusion