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Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan -- the first biography of President Erdogan -- provides a masterful overview of the power politics in the Middle East and Turkey's place in it.

Erdogan has picked an unorthodox model in the context of recent Turkish history, attempting to cast his country as a stand-alone Middle Eastern power. In doing so Turkey has broken ranks with its traditional Western allies, including the United States and has embraced an imperial-style foreign policy which has aimed to restore Turkey's Ottoman-era reach into the Arabian Middle East and the Balkans.

Today, in addition to a domestic crackdown on dissent and journalistic freedoms, driven by Erdogan's style of governance, Turkey faces a hostile world. Ankara has nearly no friends left in the Middle East, and it faces a threat from resurgent historic adversaries: Russia and Iran. Furthermore, Turkey cannot rely on the unconditional support of its traditional Western allies. Can Erdogan deliver Turkey back to safety? What are the risks that lie ahead for him, and his country? How can Turkey truly become a great power, fulfilling a dream shared by many Turks, the sultans, Ataturk, and Erdogan himself?

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“Soner Cagaptay is an astute and honest chronicler of the mercurial Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His latest book, Erdogan's Empire, is a comprehensive look at the Turkish leader's “neo-Ottoman” foreign policy-and the way he has defiantly tried to reestablish Turkey as a standalone power by playing off Washington and Moscow and sabotaging his Arab rivals. By setting Erdogan against the backdrop of Ottoman-Turkish history, Cagaptay helps readers understand that breadth of his ambitions-and also why his policies have had such disruptive and sometimes toxic consequences for the United States. Americans, Israelis and Europeans may not like the headstrong, ruthless Erdogan, but after reading Cagaptay's book, they'll at least understand him.” ―David Ignatius, Columnist, The Washington Post

“This is a must-read for any serious analyst of Turkey's complex role within NATO, in the Middle East, and around the world. Turkey is a nation of enormous potential, with a rich and complicated history. Soner Cagaptay brings elements of history, geopolitics, and economics together seamlessly to illuminate a nation that will matter deeply in the unfolding course of the 21st century.” ―Admiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

“During my four decade long career at the Turkish Foreign Ministry and since, I have grappled to find a work that explains Turkey's complex foreign policy to diplomats, journalists, and those simply captivated by this fascinating country between the East and the West. Cagaptay's book does exactly that, illuminating Turkish President Erdogan's foreign policy and his Middle Eastern ambitions, despite the determination of many of Turkey's citizens to embrace the 21st century's progress and eagerly take on its challenges. Cagaptay explains for us Erdogan's drive to make Turkey a standalone power in the context of Turkish and Ottoman history and global trends. This has ramifications not only for Turkey and its neighbors, but also Europe, U.S. and countries beyond. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand Turkey's foreign policy better. It is a must-read for citizens around the globe.” ―Ozdem Sanberk, Former Undersecretary at the Turkish Foreign Ministry

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"Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East" (2019), which details Ankara's foreign policy under Turkish president Erdogan and Turkey's ties with the U.S. ,Europe, Balkans, and the Middle East, embedded in the context of Turkish history, is the last book in a Cagaptay trilogy, which includes "The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century's First Muslim Power" (2014) that describes the economic growth that Erdogan delivered in the last decade, and "The New Sultan" (2017) that sheds light on Turkey's domestic political crisis under Erdogan.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ I.B. Tauris (September 19, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1788317394
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1788317399
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.81 x 1.21 x 8.9 inches

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Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Atlantic. He appears regularly on CNN, NPR, BBC, and CNN-Turk. A historian by training, Dr. Cagaptay wrote his doctoral dissertation at Yale University (2003) on Turkish nationalism. Dr. Cagaptay has taught courses at Yale, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. He has also served on contract as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. He has also testified before the Helsinki Commission on human rights and foreign policy issues in Turkey.

"Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East" (2019), which details Turkey's foreign policy under Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ankara's evolving ties with the U.S., Europe, the Balkans, Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in the context of Turkish and Ottoman history, is the final book in the Cagaptay trilogy. The previous two editions of the trilogy are: "The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century's First Muslim Power" (2014), which describes the economic growth that Erdogan delivered in the last decade, and "The New Sultan" (2017), which sheds light on Turkey's domestic political crisis under Erdogan.

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Erdogan's Empire named "best book on Turkey" by CNN's Fareed Zakaria

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"Just finished reading Soner Cagaptay’s latest book, Erdogan’s Empire, which I highly recommend to anyone interested in U.S.-Turkey relations and Turkey’s foreign policy under Erdoğan’s leadership. Soner’s book is an excellent, digestible read that intermixes history and smart political analysis of events in Ankara over the past 17 years. He provides a balanced and mostly objective take on Erdoğan’s worldview, foreign policy mishaps and successes, and challenges a Western English-speaking audience’s notions of Turkey’s relations with its neighbors and the broader world. Love him or hate him, Erdoğan is the most significant Turkish leader since Atatürk and Turkey remains a pivotal country for the U.S. and the West. Soner’s book is a must-read for anyone with an interest in understanding this complex and fascinating figure." - Andy Taylor

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Well researched and written. Provides interesting information to understand modern day Turkey.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 13, 2020

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I would have given it 5 stars, however, the book failed to provide a detailed account of one key event in Turkey's history, namely, the genocide of 1.5 Armenians from 1918-1923, which is one main reason it was never seriously considered as a member of the EU. Turkey has denied the Ottoman government's complicity in this crime for 104 years. Until it owns up to its past, as Germany did, I see no way Turkey will ever be viewed seriously as a civilized nation by the West.

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Elizabeth

Must read for anyone interested in modern Turkey

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2020

Just finished reading Soner Cagaptay’s latest book, Erdogan’s Empire, which I highly recommend to anyone interested in U.S.-Turkey relations and Turkey’s foreign policy under Erdoğan’s leadership.

Soner’s book is an excellent, digestible read that intermixes history and smart political analysis of events in Ankara over the past 17 years. He provides a balanced and mostly objective take on Erdoğan’s worldview, foreign policy mishaps and successes, and challenges a Western English-speaking audience’s notions of Turkey’s relations with its neighbors and the broader world.

Love him or hate him, Erdoğan is the most significant Turkish leader since Atatürk and Turkey remains a pivotal country for the U.S. and the West. Soner’s book is a must-read for anyone with an interest in understanding this complex and fascinating figure.

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Main issue is portraying a two bit egoistic politician as someone with a vision or any plans

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 15, 2021

Erdogan is a two bit politician who was in search of a career, since he could not become a professional football player and was working as an accountant at a soujouk producer, full of ambition and rage (for the Secular Republic thanks to an exiled father). He joined the islamist party of those years (there has been always one in Turkey since the anti communism movement induced by CIA back in late 60s), and by 'sitting down the knee of radical clerics' through the 1980s he gained prominence in the ranks of this 1-2% vote receiving minor party. He became the candidate of the party for local elections (Beyoglu -1989) and then to become an MP (1991) but was never elected. Then his luck turned, and with the help of a heavy economic crisis in 1994, also due to the infighting amongst major center left and right parties he was elected Mayor of Istanbul with only 24% of votes in 1994. He honed his islamist message alongside a mild attitude toward secular and republican values until he and some islamist friends spinned out and established a new islamist party. He and his close friend Abdullah Gul, of Saudi work background, kept giving the message that for political power they could make themselves useful to external powers with designs for the region (Pentagon and CIA's new regional wars doctrine and energy security and mild islam model for a new Middle East - Turkish model and also path of the now infamous Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, living in Pennsylvania since 2000 under CIA protection). That opportunity presented itself in 2002 elections right after the deep economic crisis of 2001 and his party got 29% of the votes but thanks to election gerrymandering got a majority in the parliament and the rest is history. So it is absurd to compare this man without values or principles to the likes of Ataturk or Sultans of Ottoman Empire and the main premise of this book fails right there.

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Anret

Don’t support this dictator

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2021

Fake news, propaganda, and lies.

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GLABO

Interesting but flawed

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2021

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Lots of information, but this book desperately needs an editor. Multiple misspellings and repeated portions throughout the book.

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Oliver Chandler

Great read, but repetitive at times.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 4, 2020

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This is great for IR students, providing a comprehensive detailing of Turkey's foreign policy in the Erdogan era. Great narrative and analysis. However, the way that each chapter is broken down into subsections does lend itself to a bit of repetition - but it makes it easier to find specific topics you're after.

Torben

Great book with poor editing

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 8, 2021

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The author presents the current state of Turkish foreign policy in an interesting and elaborate way. It‘s always clear what he‘s talking about, and it‘s easy to understand how each chapter fits into the “big picture“. At the same time, many aspects are presented in great detail and with examples, which makes the content of the book more tangible (e.g. statistics on trade, the number of embassies in a certain geographic area, or the number of flights scheduled between Turkey and selected countries). The book also contains opinion parts, where the author leaves the path of analysing Erdogan‘s foreign policy and tries to make suggestions. However, at every point it‘s clear whether the author is suggesting or analysing.
The one big minus I have to talk about is the large number of spelling and grammar errors in the book. The editors did not do a good job, and their sloppiness negatively influenced my view of this otherwise carefully researched book.

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Amazon Customer

Very interesting book

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on May 4, 2021

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This is a very interesting book about the foreign policies of Turkish president Erdogan and their effects on Turkey and the world.

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