Turkey in the Global Economy

Since the late 1990s Turkey has emerged as a significant economic power. Never colonized and straddling the continents of Europe and Asia, it plays a strategically important role in an increasingly unstable region. Bülent Gökay examines Turkey's remarkable political and economic transformation within the context of broader regional and global changes. By situating the story of Turkey's economic growth within an analysis of the structural changes and shifts in the world economy since the end of the Cold War, the book provides new insights into the functioning of Turkey's political economy and the successes and failures of its ruling party's economic management.

Contributor: Bülent Gökay Bülent Gökay is professor of international relations at Keele University, chair of the editorial committee of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and founding editor of the Journal of Global Faultlines. His books include Eastern Europe since 1970, Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 1920-1991, and, with Ben Fowkes, Unholy Alliance: Muslims and Communists in Post-Transition States.