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Автор: Erken, Ali
Название: America and the making of modern turkey
ISBN: 9781838604684
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Классификация:

История Ближнего Востока

История идей

Исламоведение

Социология

Моральное и социальное предназначение образования

Политика и политический строй

Политическая система и политические процессы

Международные отношения

Неправительственные организации

ISBN-10: 1838604685
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 240
Вес: 0.28 кг.
Дата издания: 19.09.2019
Серия: Cultural/Regional Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 139 x 217 x 16
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Ключевые слова: International relations,Non-governmental organizations (NGOs),Islamic studies,History of ideas,Political structure & processes,Moral & social purpose of education,Sociology,Middle Eastern history, HISTORY / Middle East / General,HISTORY / United States /
Подзаголовок: Science, culture and political alliances
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturks government encouraged substantial American investment in education and aid. It was argued that Turkey needed the technical skills and wealth offered by American education, and so a series of American schools was set up across the country to educate the Turkish youth. Here, Ali Erken, in the first study of its kind, argues that these organizations had a huge impact on political and economic thought in Turkey - acting as a form of `soft power for US national interests throughout the 20th Century. Robert College, originally a missionary school founded by US benefactors, has been responsible for educating two Turkish Prime Ministers, writers such as Orhan Pamuk and a huge number of influential economists, politicians and journalists. The end result of these American philanthropic efforts, Erken argues, was a consensus in the 1970s that the country must `westernize. This mindset, and the opposition viewpoint it engendered, has come to define political struggle in modern Turkey - torn between a capitalist `modern West and an Islamic `Ottoman East. The book also reveals how and why the Rockefeller and Ford foundations funneled large amounts of money into Turkey post-1945, and undertook activities in support of `Western candidates in Turkey as a bulwark against the Soviet Union. This is an essential contribution to the history of US-Turkish relations, and the influence of the West in Turkish political thought.

America and the making of modern turkey, Erken, Ali