Ayse Zarakol on stigma and status anxiety in Turkey’s ties to the West

<p>Ayşe Zarakol on “After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West” (Cambridge University Press). The book examines how a sense of “stigma” has dogged the way modern Turkey engages with the Western-led international order, as well as comparable cases of Japan and Russia.</p> <p><a href='https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854'>Become a Turkey Book Talk member</a> to support the podcast and get English and Turkish transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the archive, a 35% discount on over 100 Turkey/Ottoman history books published by IB Tauris, and an archive of over 200 reviews covering Turkish and international fiction, history, journalism and politics.</p>