Class Presentation: Professor Kemal Karpat, University of Wisconsin, "The Emerging New Bloc: Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey and Iran"
    Professor Karpat has written:
        The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Fiath, and Community in the Late Ottoman Empire
            (2001)
        (ed) Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey (2000)
        (ed) The Turks of Bulgaria: the History, Culture and Political Fate of a Minority (1990)
        Ottoman Population, 1830-1914: Demographic and SOcial Characteristics (1985)
        (ed) Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East (1982)
        The Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization (1976)
        (ed) The Ottoman State and its Place in World History (1974)
        An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Nationalism in the Ottoman State (1973)
        Social Change and Politics in Turkey: A Structural-Historical Analysis (1973)
       

Reading Assignments: Introduction and either Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.

Dilip Hiro, Between Marx and Muhammad: The Changing Face of Central Asia, London, 1994.

        " Introduction "
        " Kazakhstan: Between Russian Bear and Turkic Grey Wolf "
        "Uzbekistan: The Complex Hub of Central Asia "