{"product_id":"return-to-point-zero-hardcover","title":"Return to Point Zero: The Turkish-Kurdish Question and How Politics and Ideas (Re)Make Empires, Nations, and States - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMurat Somer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnalyzes Turkey's Kurdish conflict since post-Ottoman nation-building through recent peace attempts, from a novel perspective highlighting the dilemmas of the Turk majority and reshaping our understanding of ethnic conflicts, and offers solutions for a sustainable peace.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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? \u003ci\u003eReturn to Point Zero\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eQuestion\u003c\/i\u003e during late-Ottoman imperial modernization, political elite decisions by the Turks created the Kurdish \u003ci\u003eConflict\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eReturn to Point Zero\u003c\/i\u003e develops new concepts to analyze conflicts and concrete conflict-resolution proposals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMurat Somer \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 452\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42146402664583,"sku":"9781438486710","price":177.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/75076a13d77862bdb0dd727f52280c2b.webp?v=1733040285","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/return-to-point-zero-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}