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Begüm Adalet

Begüm Adalet is assistant professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University and author of Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2018).

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Designing Nationhood in Turkey’s Universities

Begüm Adalet reviews Burak Erdim's "Landed Internationals: Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East." As in past decades, universities in Turkey are venues of contestation between authority and resistance, with the government imposing its singular vision of a “pious,

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