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The uses and misuses of dialogue
(2012)
'Civilisation' as a tool of power has been a constant in world history since the 'discovery' of new worlds by Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and British adventurers. 'Discovery' conferred ownership and 'civilisation' justified ...
Assimilation in north-western England from the Norman conquest to the early thirteenth century: The Kirkby, Pennington and Copeland families
(The University of Leeds, 2010)
By looking at three families, all of Anglo-Scandinavian descent in the male line and neighbours in the Furness peninsula, this article seeks to examine the particular ways in which they, and similar families in the region, ...
Turkey and the Kurdish Question: Last Exit before the Bridge
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government initiated a peace process with the Kurds in January 2013 to become the first government since 1984 to systematically negotiate with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ...
Restorationist counter-enlightenment : Thomas M'Crie on the concept of civil liberty
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014)
Enlightenment notions for Counter Enlightenment purposes have not to date been used to provide a comprehensive context for Scottish religious history writing in the age of Counter Revolution and Restoration. The Evangelical ...
Russia in 1914: Reasons for defeat and the cost of future victories (from a discussion of British Historians)
(Ural Federal University, 2015)
In his essay "Russia in 2014: Reasons for Defeat and the Cost of Future Victories (from a discussion of British historians)" Norman Stone, an eminent specialist in Russian history, explores a key period in Russia's fate ...
Religion and state in contemporary Turkey: recent developments in laiklik
(Oxford University Press, 2010)
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Embedded neopatrimonialism: patriarchy and democracy in Turkey
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
This article argues that patriarchal discourses can play a legitimizing role for the undemocratic elements of regimes. It focuses on neopatrimonial regimes in contemporary politics, which create impediments to democracy. ...
Heritability of neuropsychological measures in schizophrenia and nonpsychiatric populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
Schizophrenia is characterized by neuropsychological deficits across many cognitive domains. Cognitive phenotypes with high heritability and genetic overlap with schizophrenia liability can help elucidate the mechanisms ...
A small yes for presidentialism: the Turkish constitutional referendum of April 2017
(Routledge, 2017)
Following four elections in three years, on 16 April 2017 Turkish voters once again went to the polls - this time under the emergency law established after the failed coup attempt of July 2016 - to vote on constitutional ...
Critical investigations into the international
(Routledge, 2014)
[No abstract available]