Myth and Rhetoric of the Turkish Model

Anita Sengupta is Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Her work at the Institute has been focused on the Eurasian region with Uzbekistan being her area of special interest. She has also worked extensively on Turkish politics.  She is the author of Heartlands of Eurasia: The geopolitics of political space, (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Lexington Books July 2009); Russia, China and Multilateralism in Central Asia, (New Delhi: Shipra Publications, 2005); The Formation of the Uzbek Nation-State: A Study in Transition, (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Lexington Books, 2003) and Frontiers into Borders: The Transformation of Identities in Central Asia, (Delhi and London: Hope India Publications and Greenwich Millennium Press Ltd, 2002). She has also edited a number of volumes on Eurasian politics.Asian Studies and Central Asia and the Caucasus. Her articles have been translated and published in Russian and Chinese. She has been an invited speaker at various national and international seminars.

• Preface.- Chapter 1. Political Dynamics in Eurasia: Background and Context of the Turkish Model.- Chapter 2. What is the “Turkish Model”?.- Chapter 3. Confronting the Past: Reclaiming Ottoman-Russian connections and the Ottoman legacy.- Chapter 4. Eurasianism or Neo-Ottomanism? The Neighborhood in Turkish Foreign Policy.- Chapter 5. The Central Asian Response to Models.- Chapter 6. The Turkish Model at Crossroads: A Conclusion.- Bibliography.