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Return to Point Zero
2022
Overview
How did the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict arise? Why have Turks and
Kurds failed for so long to solve it? How can they solve it today?
How can social scientists better analyze this and other protracted
conflicts and propose better prescriptions for sustainable peace?
Return to Point Zero develops a novel framework for
analyzing the historical-structural and contemporary causes of
ethnic-national conflicts, highlighting an understudied dimension:
politics. Murat Somer argues that intramajority group politics
rather than majority-minority differences better explains
ethnic-national conflicts. Hence, the political-ideological
divisions among Turks are the key to understanding the
Turkish-Kurdish Conflict; though it was nationalism that produced
the Kurdish Question during late-Ottoman imperial
modernization, political elite decisions by the Turks created the
Kurdish Conflict during the postimperial nation-state
building. Today, ideational rigidities reinforce the conflict.
Analyzing this conflict from \"premodern\" times to today, Somer
emphasizes two distinct periods: the formative era of 1918-1926 and
the post-2011 reformative period. Somer argues that during the
formative era, political elites inadequately addressed three
fundamental dilemmas of security, identity, and cooperation and
includes a discussion of how the legacy of those political elite
decisions impacted and framed peace attempts that have failed in
the 1990s and 2010s. Return to Point Zero develops new
concepts to analyze conflicts and concrete conflict-resolution
proposals.
Publisher
State University of New York Press,SUNY press
Subject
/ Asie Mineure -- Relations interethniques
/ Ethnic conflict -- Turkey -- History
/ History
/ Kurds -- Politics and government fast
/ Kurds -- Turkey -- Politics and government
/ Kurds -- Turkey -- Politics and government -- 20th century
/ Kurds -- Turkey -- Politics and government -- 21st century
/ Turkey -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
/ Turkey -- History -- 20th century
/ Turkey -- History -- 20th century.GBC2K0356
/ Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1909
/ Turkey https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxmHG9jJjCTM3y4pFRqcP fast
ISBN
1438486723, 9781438486727, 9781438486710, 1438486715
