Joseph Masco The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780691202174, pp. 456, Price: $27.95 / £22.00) The nuclear weapons programme is one of our time’s most talked about yet misunderstood technological endeavours. While historians have studied the early years of the Manhattan project in-depth, the…
John G. Matsusaka Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780691199726, 312 pp., $29.95 / £25.00) Matsusaka sets out on a very ambitious task – he seeks to find a political corrective to the crisis of democratic representation that is currently plaguing the United…
Catherine E. De Vries and Sara B. Hobolt Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780691194752, 336 pp., $32.00 / £25.00) According to academics, after a decade of crisis, European politics have suffered unfathomable metamorphoses, performing in the collapse of formerly-stable Western European political institutions. It’s egregious…
Noah Feldman The Arab Winter: A Tragedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780691194929, 216 pp., $22.95 hb.) After the fall of Tunisia and the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the so-called “Arab Spring” reached Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain, and Syria. The regimes of Ben Ali, Gaddafi, and the regimes of Hosni Mubarak…
The 23rd issue of the rest: journal of politics and development is out now. Download the issue here… TABLE OF CONTENTS Research Articles An Overview of Agricultural Support Policies in Turkey: A Comparative Regional Analysis By Hakan Uslu Digital Marketing of Political Parties in Turkey By Ramazan Aslan The Cyberthreat in the Contemporary Era: Challenges…
Adam Mestyan Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. ISNB:9780691172644, pp.368, $45.00, paperback.) The book, Arab Patriotism, written by Adam Mestyan reflects on what the Ottoman context of Egypt means for its nationalism. Throughout the nineteenth century the governance of the Egyptian province was in…
Adeeb Khalid Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780691161396, 576 PP., Price: $35.00) The book opens with a captivating overview of the ancient inhabitants of the region. This quick introduction articulates an idea that some nomadic tribes became settled, resulting in the formation of…
Michael Cotey Morgan The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780691176062, 424 PP., Price: $35.00) A world without war is the decisive goal of humankind, but only in a hypothetical state. Starting from the groundwork that the best peace is war, the great powers…
Hakan Uslu, PhD* * Assistant Prof. at the department of economics at Adıyaman University, huslu@adiyaman.edu.tr ABSTRACT The agricultural sector is seriously affected by changes in many economic, social, or environmental factors. Hence, the necessity of supporting the sector by governments in various ways has become an indisputable reality. However, regional characteristics must be taken into…