Серия "Columbia Studies in International and Global History"

In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: «Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?» When the pollsters reversed the question—"Which country is Turkey's number one enemy in international relations?"—the United States came in second. How did Turkey's citizens come to hold such opposing views simultaneously? In The Limits of Westernization , Perin E. Gürel explains this unique split and its echoes in contemporary U.S.-Turkey...

The Philippine Revolution of 1896–1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asia. Yet scholarship on the revolution and the turn of the twentieth century in Asia more broadly has largely approached this pivotal moment in terms of relations with the West, at the expense of understanding the East-East and Global South connections that knit together the region’s experience. Asian...