{"product_id":"winning-turkey-how-america-europe-and-turkey-can-revive-a-fading-partnership-9780815732150","title":"Winning Turkey: How America, Europe, and Turkey Can Revive a Fading Partnership","description":"\"\u003cp\u003eTurkey has always been a crossroads: the point where East meets West, Europe meets Asia, and Christianity meets Islam. Turkey has also been a close and important American ally, but a series of converging political and strategic factors have now endangered its longstanding Western and democratic orientation. In Winning Turkey, two leading analysts explain this worrisome situation and present a plan for improving it. The stakes are clear. Turkey is the most advanced democracy in the Islamic world, bordering a number of the world's hotspots, including Iraq, Iran, and the Caucasus. It occupies the corridor between Western markets and Caspian Sea energy reserves. A stable, Western-oriented Turkey moving toward EU membership would provide a growing market for exports, a source of needed labor, a positive influence on the Middle East, and an ally in the war on terror. The picture has darkened, however, as rising anti-Americanism, deflated hopes for EU accession, civil-military tensions, and terrorist threats have destabilized an already volatile Turkish political system. Wi \u003ci\u003enning Turkey d\u003c\/i\u003eesigns a plan to ease tensions in this critical part of the world. In addition to proposing a \"\"grand bargain\"\" between Turkey and the Kurds, it advocates greater support for increased liberalism and democracy, a renewed commitment by both Europe and Turkey to promote EU membership, a historic compromise with Armenia, and greater Western engagement with Turkish Cypriots.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip H. Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former director for European Affairs at the National Security Council. His books include \u003ci\u003eWinning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World\u003c\/i\u003e (Times Books, 2007) and \u003ci\u003eAllies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e (McGraw Hill, 2004). \u003cb\u003e?mer Taspinar\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of national security studies at the National War College as well as the director of the Turkey Project and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eKurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge, 2005). \u003cb\u003eSoli Ozel\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of international relations at Bigli University in Istanbul and a columnist for the Turkish daily \u003ci\u003eSabah\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc\/Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845561749778,"sku":"9780815732150","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9539d829-1228-4d96-a8e7-22cecceab931.jpg?v=1737353826","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/winning-turkey-how-america-europe-and-turkey-can-revive-a-fading-partnership-9780815732150","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}