PUBLICATIONS

Books

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• 2009. Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey (Cambridge University Press)
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    Turkish translation: 2011. Pasif ve Dışlayıcı Laiklik: A.B.D., Fransa ve Türkiye (Bilgi Üniversitesi Press).
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    Arabic translation: 2012. (Beirut: Arab Network for Research & Publication).
    
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  2012. Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey (Columbia University Press), edited by Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepan.
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Refereed Articles and Chapters

• 2012. “Assertive and Passive Secularism: State Neutrality, Religious Demography, and the Muslim Minority in the United States,” in Allen Hertzke, ed., The Future of Religious Freedom: Global Challenges (Oxford University Press).
  
  
• 2012. The Rise and Fall of Military Tutelage in Turkey: Fears of Islamism, Kurdism, and Communism, Insight Turkey, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 37-57.
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• 2012. (with Alfred Stepan), “Introduction,” pp. 1-11; and “Laïcité as an ‘Ideal Type’ and a Continuum: Comparing Turkey, France, and Senegal,” pp. 95-121 in Kuru and Stepan, eds. Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey.
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    Turkish translation in Türkiye’de Demokrasi, İslam ve Laiklik (Bilgi, forthcoming).
    
    
• 2009. Guest editor of the special issue on Islam and Democracy, Insight Turkey, Vol. 11, No. 4. (in that issue: A Research Note on Islam, Democracy, and Secularism, pp. 29-40.)
  
  
• 2008. (with Zeynep Akbulut Kuru). Apolitical Interpretation of Islam: Said Nursi's Faith-based Activism in Comparison with Political Islamism and Sufism, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 19, No.1, pp. 99-111.
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  2008. Secularism, State Policies, and Muslims in Europe: Analyzing French Exceptionalism, Comparative Politics, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 1-19
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    Arabic Translation in Alukah
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• 2006. Reinterpretation of Secularism in Turkey: The Case of the Justice and Development Party, in The Emergence of a New Turkey: Democracy and the AK Parti, edited by M. Hakan Yavuz (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press). pp. 136-159.
  
  
• 2007. Passive and Assertive Secularism: Historical Conditions, Ideological Struggles, and State Policies toward Religion, World Politics, Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 568-594.
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  2005. Globalization and Diversification of Islamic Movements: Three Turkish Cases, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 120, No. 2, pp. 253-274.
  • Reprinted in Frederic Volpi, ed., Political Islam: A Critical Reader (Routledge, 2010).
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  2003. Fethullah Gülen’s Search for a Middle Way between Modernity and Muslim Tradition, in Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gülen Movement, edited by M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press), pp. 115-130.
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    Reprinted in Turkish in Laik Devlet ve Fethullah Gülen Hareketi, edited by M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito (Istanbul: Gelenek Yayıncılık, 2004), pp. 161-176.
  
  
• 2002. Between the State and Cultural Zones: Nation-Building in Turkmenistan, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 71-90.
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    Reprinted in French in Outre-Terre: Revue française de géopolitique, No. 16, 2006, pp. 351-365.
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    Reprinted in Turkish in Orta Asya’nın Sosyo-Kültürel Sorunları: Kimlik, İslam, Milliyet ve Etnisite, by Ertan Efegil and Pınar Akçalı, eds. (Istanbul: Gündoğan, 2003), pp. 169-199.
    
  
  

Other Essays

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• 2013. Muslim Politics Without an ‘Islamic’ State: Can Turkey’s Justice and Development Party Be a model for Arab Islamists? Policy Briefing, Brookings Doha Center, February.
  • Simultaneously published in in Arabic
    
    
• 2008. Secularism in Turkey: Myths and Realities, Insight Turkey, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 101-110.
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• 2007. Changing Perspectives on Islamism and Secularism in Turkey: The Gülen Movement and the AK Party, in Ihsan Yilmaz, ed., Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gülen Movement (London: Leeds Metropolitan University Press), pp. 140-51.
  
  
• 2006. (with Ahmet Yükleyen) Islam, Democracy, and Secularism in Europe: France, Germany, and the Netherlands (Istanbul: TESEV) (in Turkish) (64 pp.).
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  2002. The Rentier State Model and Central Asian Studies: The Turkmen Case, Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 51-71.
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  1999. “The Analysis of a Turkic Union through the Lens of Regional Integration Theories and International Conditions,” in Mim Kemal Öke, ed., Central Asian Republics in Transition (Istanbul: Alfa), pp. 152-210 (in Turkish).
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  1998. “Turkey’s Orientation toward Central Asia: Policy Change after Nine Centuries,” Türkiye Günlüğü, No. 51, pp. 78-88 (in Turkish). 
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  1998. “Clash of Civilizations: Scientific Fact or Conspiracy Theory?” Türkiye Günlüğü, No. 49, pp. 71-79 (in Turkish).

Book Reviews (Selected)

• 2012. The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations by Michael L. Ross. Insight Turkey, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 210-3.
  
  
• 2011. Are Muslims Distinctive? A Look at the Evidence by M. Steven Fish. Insight Turkey, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 214-7.
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  2011. The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey by Banu Eligür. Contemporary Islam.
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  2011. The Price of Freedom Denied by Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke. Middle East Policy, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 172-5.
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  2011. Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Kemalism, Religion, and the Nation State by Umut Azak. Middle East Journal, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 161-2.
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  2010. Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation by Tariq Ramadan. Politics and Religion, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 659-61.
  
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  2009. Party Building in the Modern Middle East by Michele Penner Angrist. International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 706-708.
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  2008. Contemporary Islamic Conversations: M. Fethullah Gülen on Islam, Turkey, and the West, ed. by Nevval Sevindi. Middle East Journal, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 529-530.
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  2008. Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France, Jonathan Lawrence and Justin Vaisse. Contemporary Islam, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2008, pp. 91-92.
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  2007. Between Islam and the State: Politics of Engagement by Berna Turam. Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 1560-1562.
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  2007. L'autre Turquie: Le mouvement aléviste et ses territoires by Élise Massicard. New Perspectives on Turkey, No. 36, pp. 174-175.
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  2005. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 1300-1304.
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  2001. Islam and Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond by John Cooper, et. al., eds. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 174-177.
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  2001. La Nouvelle Asie centrale ou la fabrication des nations by Oliver Roy. Cahiers d’études sur la Mediterranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien, No. 32: 347-351 (in French).
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  2001. The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling by Nilüfer Göle. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 181-183.
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  2001. Türk Dininin Sosyolojik İmkanı by Yasin Aktay. Turkish Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 154-6.

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