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So we should say it coldly: We have, as of yet, no strategy. We have no shared picture of the world as it might be. You. Me. Our leaders. None of us. And the experience of other, fast-collapsed empires should way on us. “The struggle to survive,” the historian John Darwin has wri...

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… Change in Education,” New York Times, December 8, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/ world/europe/erdogan-pushes-ottoman-language-classes-as-part-of-tradtional-turkish-values.html. 5. Eleanor Albert, “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization,” Council on Foreign Relations, O...

…on station for broadcasting a program about Suleiman the Magnificent that truthfully depicted the famously cosmopolitan Ottoman sultan drinking alcohol. The official warning followed an outcry led by AKP leaders and fundamentalists alike, who demanded HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023504

…aths of millions of his own people. In Turkey, Erdogan has decreed that high school students should study the de- funct Ottoman language, challenging a nearly century-old reform linked to Mustafa Kemal Atatiirk, modern Turkey's founder.* 5. Democracy redefined: It is a testament...

the Ottoman province of Syria was divided into two parts on a line roughly running east-west between the sea and Mount Hermon. The northern part was given to France and divided into Lebanon and a rump Syria entity. The southern part was given to Britain and was called Palestine

…ise to power remains the catalyst for Islamic sectarian division today, releasing forces of fury once confined first by Ottoman rule and then by US dominance in the region. The threat to Arab nations and the West that ensued is the same as that led by the Ottomans: the spread of...

…reign land - which would likely set off alarm bells among Arabs who already suspect Turkey of harboring a so-called neo-Ottoman agenda. Turkey's ardent support for Libyan rebels against Moammar Gadhafi and public backing for Syrian opposition forces have already unnerved Arab mon...

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