Acturca Journal Watch February 2009

Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, February 2009

Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin

Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly.

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol 72, No. 01 (February 2009)

• Baki Tezcan, « The history of a “primary source”: The making of Tûghî’s chronicle on the regicide of Osman II », pp 41-62
• Roberto Mazza, « Ikmet Özdemir: The Ottoman Army 1914–1918: Disease and Death on the Battlefield. (Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Studies.) xiii, 274 pp. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2008. $25. ISBN 978 0 87480 923 7 », pages 168-169
• Kate Fleet, « Rhoads Murphey: Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture, 16th–18th Centuries. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) xvi, 322 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2007. £65. ISBN 978 0 7546 5931 0 », pages 169-171
• Christopher Melchert, « Ahmet T. Karamustafa: Sufism. The Formative Period. (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys.) xiii, 202 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. £45. ISBN 978 0 7486 1918 4 », pages 173-175

Central Asia and the Caucasus, Volume 55 No. 1, 2009

• Savaş Genç, « Significance of the Georgian-South Ossetian Conflict for Turkish Foreign Policy »
• Pavel Varbanets, « A Turkic Alliance : Possible Alternative to Turkey’s Unrealized EU Membership ? », pages 57-63.

Defence and Peace Economics, Volume 20 Issue 1 (February 2009)

• Bahar Araz-Takay, K. Peren Arin, Tolga Omay, « The endogenous and non-linear relationship between terrorism and economic performance: Turkish evidence », pages 1-10
• Durmus Özdemir, Ali Bayar, »The Peace Dividend Effect Of Turkish Convergence To The Eu: A Multi-Region Dynamic Cge Model Analysis For Greece And Turkey », pages 69-78

Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 24, No. 1 (February 2009)

• John Ferris, « The Internationalism of Islam’: The British Perception of a Muslim Menace, 1840-1951 », pages 57-77

Journal of Intercultural Studies, Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2009)

• Christopher Houston, « Reproducing and Contesting Social Norms and Forms in Turkey », pages 1-5
• Murat Belge, « Nationalism, Democracy and the Left in Turkey », pages 7-20
• Christoph Herzog, « Enlightenment and the Kemalist Republic: A Predicament », pages 21-37
• Kenan Çayir, « Preparing Turkey for the European Union: Nationalism, National Identity and ‘Otherness’ in Turkey’s New Textbooks », pages 39-55
• Arus Yumul, « “A Prostitute Lodging in the Bosom of Turkishness”: Istanbul’s Pera and its Representation », pages 57 – 72
• Banu Senay, « Remembering the ‘Timeless City’: Istanbul, Music and Memory among the Turkish Migrants in Sydney », pages 73 – 87
• Anna Grabolle Çeliker, « Construction of the Kurdish Self in Turkey through Humorous Popular Culture », pages 89-105
• Uğur Kömeçoğlu, Micro Spaces, Performative Repertoires and Gender Wars among Islamic Youth in Istanbul », pp. 107-119

Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, Winter 2009

• Jason E. Strakes, “Ethnosectarian Accommodation and External Disruptions in Northern Iraq: A Modus Vivendi Model of Kirkuk”, pages 1-18
• Michael M. Gunter, “Navigating the EU Shoals: Turkey’s AK Party and the Kurds”, pages 19-37

Mediterranean Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Winter 2009)

• Doug Bandow, « US Policy toward Kosovo: Sowing the Wind in the Balkans, Reaping the Whirlwind in the Caucasus », pages 15-30
• Evanthis Hatzivassilou, « The Red Line: Pressure and Persuasion in Greek Diplomatic Strategies on Cyprus, 1945 to 2004 », pages 52-68
• Prodromos Yannas, « The Soft Power of the Ecumenical Patriarchate », pages 77-93

The Middle East Journal, vol. 63, no. 1 (Winter 2009)

• Sena Karasipahi, « Comparing Islamic Resurgence Movements in Turkey and Iran », pages 87-107

Social Indicators Research,  vol. 95, n° 2 (February 2009)

• Emre Toros, « The Relationship Between Islam and Democracy in Turkey: Employing Political Culture as an Indicator », pp. 253-265

The Sociological Review, Volume 57, Number 1 (February 2009)

• Şebnem Eroğlu, « Patterns of income allocation among poor Gecekondu households in Turkey: overt mechanisms and women’s secret kitties », pages 58-80

Sustainable Development, Volume 17, Issue 1, (January/February 2009)

• Ismail Erol, Nigar Cakar, Derya Erel, Ramazan Sari, « Sustainability in the Turkish retailing industry », pages 49-67