Bandits And Bureaucrats

Author : Karen Barkey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501720871

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Bandits and Bureaucrats by Karen Barkey Pdf

Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state, unable and unwilling to rebel. Bandits, formerly mercenary soldiers, were not interested in rebellion but concentrated on trying to gain state resources, more as rogue clients than as primitive rebels. The state's ability to control and manipulate bandits—through deals, bargains and patronage—suggests imperial strength rather than weakness, she maintains. Bandits and Bureaucrats details, in a rich, archivally based analysis, state-society relations in the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Exploring current eurocentric theories of state building, the author illuminates a period often mischaracterized as one in which the state declined in power. Outlining the processes of imperial rule, Barkey relates the state political and military institutions to their socal foundations. She compares the Ottoman route with state centralization in the Chinese and Russian empires, and contrasts experiences of rebellion in France during the same period. Bandits and Bureaucrats thus develops a theoretical interpretation of imperial state centralization through incorporation and bargaining with social groups, and at the same time enriches our understanding of the dynamics of Ottoman history.

Author : Basha O'Reilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1590482964

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Bandits and Bureaucrats by Basha O'Reilly Pdf

TIt seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do. Go to Russia, befriend the Cossacks, buy a stallion and then trot him more than 2,500 miles back to England. Of course the Soviet Union had just collapsed and no one had ever been allowed to ride out of that communist empire. But such minor obstacles didn't deter the author of this singular book. "Bandits and Bureaucrats" unfolds in 1995 when unstable political conditions allowed Basha O'Reilly to travel through a recently off-limits country. What she found was a nation in unexpected transition. Emerging from decades of brutal governance, for a brief moment in time Russia's rules were no longer enforced and a rare opportunity existed to cross the secretive nation on horseback. Unexpected discoveries quickly followed. Because of decades of communist repression, ordinary people had never seen a woman in the saddle and in a landscape devoid of fences Basha rode from Russia into Belarus simply by crossing a river. Though she relished the simplicity of this new life, the author had to contend with the harsh realities of equestrian travel including KGB interviews, risky rapists and horse-hating bureaucrats. With its rich details, the book qualifies as an important addition to the history of equestrian travel. Yet there is more to this tale than reaching a distant geographic goal. Written by one of the foremost female equestrian explorers alive today, Basha's story explains how the journey encouraged her to change the direction of her life. When the western obsession with possessions was replaced with a love of personal liberty, what appeared to be the end of a journey was only the beginning of a life lived at the gallop. Sometimes our soul's song stirs. The ice that has confined us begins to crack. Lethargy burns off in the heat of a newly-discovered passion. Gypsy blood, long denied, sings to a moon long ignored. And our life is suddenly taken away from where we lived, from what we knew, from who we were. Here is the tale of how a brave woman discovered a horse that took her past frontiers, both physical and spiritual, into a new history, a new life, and a new name. The result is that this is not a simple travel tale. It is the remarkable story of a woman's transformation and the magnificent Cossack stallion that went on to become the symbol of the international Long Riders' Guild.

Author : Mehtap Sooyler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317668794

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The Turkish Deep State by Mehtap Sooyler Pdf

The deep state ranks among the most critical issues in Turkish politics. This book traces its origins and offers an explanation of the emergence and trajectory of the deep state; the meaning and function of informal and authoritarian institutions in the formal security sector of a democratic regime; the involvement of the state in organized crime; armed conflict; corruption; and massive human rights violations. This book applies an innovative methodological approach to concept formation and offers a mid-range theory of deep state that sheds light on the reciprocal relationship between the state and political regimes and elaborates on the conditions for the consolidation of democracy. It traces the path-dependent emergence and trajectory of the deep state from the Ottoman Empire to the current Turkish Republic and its impact on state-society relations. It reads state formation, consolidation, and breakdown from the perspective of this most resilient phenomenon of Turkish politics. The analysis also situates recent developments regarding AKP governments, including the EU accession process, civil-military relations, coup trials, the Kurdish question, and the Gülen Movement in their context within the deep state. Moreover, this case-study offers an analytical framework for cross-regional comparative analysis of the deep states. Addressing the lacuna in academic scholarship on the deep state phenomenon in Turkey, this book is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in democratization, politics and Middle East Studies.

Author : Claire Bond Potter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813524873

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War on Crime by Claire Bond Potter Pdf

The first book to look at the structural, legal, and cultural aspects of J. Edgar Hoover's war on crime in the 1930s, a New Deal campaign which forged new links between citizenship, federal policing, and the ideal of centralized government. WAR ON CRIME reminds us of how and why our worship of violent celebrity hero G-men and gangsters came about and how we now are reaping the results. 10 photos.

Author : Stephanie Cronin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838603984

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Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa by Stephanie Cronin Pdf

The concept of the 'dangerous classes' was born in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nineteenth century Europe. It described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower depths of the new societies, surviving by their wits or various amoral, disreputable or criminal strategies. This included beggars and vagrants, swindlers, pickpockets and burglars, prostitutes and pimps, ex-soldiers, ex-prisoners, tricksters, drug-dealers, the unemployed or unemployable, indeed every type of the criminal and marginal. This book examines the 'dangerous classes' in the Middle East and North Africa, their lives and the strategies they used to avoid, evade, cheat, placate or, occasionally, resist, the authorities. Chapters cover the narratives of their lives; their relationship with 'respectable' society; their political inclinations and their role in shaping systems and institutions of discipline and control and their representation in literature and in popular culture. The book demonstrates the liminality of the 'dangerous classes' and their capacity for re-invention. It also indicates the sharpening relevance of the concept to a Middle East and North Africa now in the grip of an almost permanent sense of crisis, its younger generations crippled by a pervasive sense of hopelessness, prone to petty crime and vulnerable to induction as foot soldiers into drug and people smuggling, petty gangsterism and jihadism.

Author : Christopher Adolph
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139620536

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Bankers, Bureaucrats, and Central Bank Politics by Christopher Adolph Pdf

Most studies of the political economy of money focus on the laws protecting central banks from government interference; this book turns to the overlooked people who actually make monetary policy decisions. Using formal theory and statistical evidence from dozens of central banks across the developed and developing worlds, this book shows that monetary policy agents are not all the same. Molded by specific professional and sectoral backgrounds and driven by career concerns, central bankers with different career trajectories choose predictably different monetary policies. These differences undermine the widespread belief that central bank independence is a neutral solution for macroeconomic management. Instead, through careful selection and retention of central bankers, partisan governments can and do influence monetary policy - preserving a political trade-off between inflation and real economic performance even in an age of legally independent central banks.

Author : Yuen Yuen Ang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478601

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China's Gilded Age by Yuen Yuen Ang Pdf

Unbundles corruption into different types, examining corruption as access money in China through a comparative-historical lens.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pandora Yay ve Bilgisayar Ltd
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Catalogs, Books
ISBN : 975763820X

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Books on Turkey by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Crooks,Timothy H. Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107166035

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Empires and Bureaucracy in World History by Peter Crooks,Timothy H. Parsons Pdf

A comparative study of the power and limits of bureaucracy in historical empires from ancient Rome to the twentieth century.

Author : Karen Barkey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139472883

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Empire of Difference by Karen Barkey Pdf

This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms of rule at key moments of its history, emergence, imperial institutionalization, remodeling, and transition to nation-state, revealing how the empire managed these moments, adapted, and averted crises and what changes made it transform dramatically. The flexible techniques by which the Ottomans maintained their legitimacy, the cooperation of their diverse elites both at the center and in the provinces, as well as their control over economic and human resources were responsible for the longevity of this particular 'negotiated empire'. Her analysis illuminates topics that include imperial governance, imperial institutions, imperial diversity and multiculturalism, the manner in which dissent is handled and/or internalized, and the nature of state society negotiations.

Author : Gabriel Piterberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520238367

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An Ottoman Tragedy by Gabriel Piterberg Pdf

Combines a reinterpretation of the history of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century with an analysis of the ways history is constructed by its participants.

Author : Karen Barkey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429973857

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After Empire by Karen Barkey Pdf

The Soviet Union was hardly the first large, continuous, land-based, multinational empire to collapse in modern times. The USSR itself was, ironically, the direct result of one such demise, that of imperial Russia, which in turn was but one of several other such empires that did not survive the stresses of the times: the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire.This ambitious and important volume brings together a group of some of the most outstanding scholars in political science, history, and historical sociology to examine the causes of imperial decline and collapse. While they warn against facile comparisons, they also urge us to step back from the immediacy of current events to consider the possible significance of historical precedents.Is imperial decline inevitable, or can a kind of imperial stasis be maintained indefinitely? What role, if any, does the growth of bureaucracies needed to run large and complex political systems of this type play in economic and political stagnation? What is the balance of power" between the centre and the peripheries, between the dominant nationality and minorities? What coping mechanisms do empires tend to develop and what influence do these have? Is modernization the inexorable source of imperial decline and ultimate collapse? And what resources, including the imperial legacy, are available for political, social, and economic reconstruction in the aftermath of collapse? These are just a few of the tantalizing questions addressed by the contributors to this fascinating and timely volume.

Author : David M. Robinson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824823915

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Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven by David M. Robinson Pdf

To understand how this extraordinary meeting came about requires a consideration of the economy of violence during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Here, for the first time in any language, is a detailed look at the role of illicit violence during the Ming.".

Author : Uğur Ümit Üngör
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192558985

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Paramilitarism by Uğur Ümit Üngör Pdf

From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, and from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared in violent conflicts in very different settings. Paramilitaries are generally depicted as irregular armed organizations that carry out acts of violence against civilians on behalf of a state. In doing so, they undermine the state's monopoly of legitimate violence, while at the same time creating a breeding ground for criminal activities. Why do governments with functioning police forces and armies use paramilitary groups? This study tackles this question through the prism of the interpenetration of paramilitaries and the state. The author interprets paramilitarism as the ability of the state to successfully outsource mass political violence against civilians that transforms and traumatizes societies. It analyses how paramilitarism can be understood in global context, and how paramilitarism is connected to transformations of warfare and state-society relations. By comparing a broad range of cases, it looks at how paramilitarism has made a profound impact in a large number of countries that were different, but nevertheless shared a history of pro-government militia activity. A thorough understanding of paramilitarism can clarify the direction and intensity of violence in wartime and peacetime. The volume examines the issues of international involvement, institutional support, organized crime, party politics, and personal ties.

Author : Stephanie Cronin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107190849

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Social Histories of Iran by Stephanie Cronin Pdf

A social history of modern Iran 'from below' focused on subaltern groups and contextualised by developments within Middle Eastern and global history.