The role of the state in West Asia /
edited by Annika Rabo and Bo Utas.
- Istanbul, [Turkey] : New York : Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul ; Distributor, I. B. Tauris, 2005.
- viii, 194 p. : map ; 28 cm.
- Transactions ; vol. 14. .
- Transactions (Svenska forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul) ; v. 14. .
Papers read at a conference held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 14-16 November 2002.
Includes bibliographical references.
The Role of the State in West Asia / Annika Rabo and Bo Utas -- War, Mobilisation and the Economy / Kıvanç Ulusoy -- Turkish Women Write War / Roberta Micallef -- A Brief Survey of Turkish-Iranian Relations during the Second Half of the 1990s / Özden Zeynep Oktav -- What Does the Secular State Have to do with Revivalist Islam? : The Turkish Case and the Gülen Movement / Berna Turam -- Traces of Statelessness in the Kurdish Novel / Hashem Amadzadeh -- The Urban Bourgeoisie and the Colonial State : The Iraqi and Syrian Middle Classes between the Two World Wars / Peter Sluglett -- The Role of the Origin of the State : Understanding Current SyrianPolicy towards Hatay / Emma Jorum -- Reflections on the Linguistic Situation in Anatolia and Northern Syria from a Semitist's Perspective / Bo Isaksson and Ablahad Lahdo -- Aleppo Traders and the Syrian State / Annika Rabo -- The State, Technological Capacities and Technical Exchange in Iran / Javad Amid and Amjad Hadjikhani -- Language Policy and Language Planning : Some Definitions / Helena Bani-Shoraka -- State Control and Its Impact on Language in Balochistan / Carina Jahani -- State Manipulation or Nationalist Ambition? : Assessing in the Causes of the Nagorno-Karabakh War / Erik Melander -- The Balance of Languages in Post-Soviet Georgia / Manana Kobaidze and Karina Vamling.
West and Central Asia have for centuries contributed to shaping the identity of Europe by constituting a significant other. This work aims to explore the diverse facets of this contribution, looking at social, cultural and political areas of heritage and cross-cultural interaction. The region itself may be defined as one that stretches from the Mediterranean to China, and from the Himalayas to Siberia but for the purposes of this study a close focus is made on Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Specialists on the region here adopt a multidisciplinary approach to the subject and their contributions include Peter Sluglett on The Urban Bourgeoisie and the Colonial State ; Roberta Micallef on Turkish Women ; Berna Turam on The Secular State and Revivalist Islam ; Emma Jorum on Syrian State Politics ; and Annika Rabo and Bo Utas on The Role of the State in West Asia.