Meral Uğur Çınar, of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, has published a book titled “Collective Memory and National Membership: Identity and Citizenship Models in Turkey and Austria.”
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, the 184-page book explores the role played by collective perceptions of the past in constructing, maintaining and challenging views of citizenship and national identity.
Dr. Uğur Çınar draws on comparative historical analysis of two post-imperial core countries, Turkey and Austria, to explore how differences in perspectives on the past inform citizenship debates. Her book offers a conceptual framework applicable beyond these two cases for analyzing the history-identity nexus at the collective level.
Asst. Prof. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration has published a book under the title “Kutsal Sentez: Yunan ve Türk Milliyetçiliğine Dini Aşılamak,” which is a translation of his “Instilling Religion in Greek and Turkish Nationalism: A ‘Sacred Synthesis.’” “Kutsal Sentez” was translated into Turkish by İdil Çetin and printed by Koç University Press in November 2014. The original English-language version was published by Palgrave Macmillan in October 2012.
The first comparative study to examine the role of religion in the formation of Greek and Turkish national identity, the book argues that the shift to an increasingly religious paradigm in both countries can be explained in terms of the exigencies of consolidation and the need to appeal to grassroots elements and account for diversity.
Asst. Prof. Lars Vinx, of the Department of Philosophy, has served as a translator and editor of “The Guardian of the Constitution: Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Limits of Constitutional Law.” Part of the “Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law” series, this volume provides the first English translation of Hans Kelsen’s and Carl Schmitt’s influential Weimar-era debate on constitutional guardianship and the legitimacy of constitutional review.
The texts included in the book show Kelsen and Schmitt responding to one another in the context of a debate focused on a concrete constitutional crisis. This format allows the reader to assess the plausibility of Kelsen’s and Schmitt’s legal and constitutional theories.