Book Review: Cook,S. A. (2007). Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt,Algeria,and Turkey. Baltimore,MD: Johns Hopkins University Press

See Jason Brownlee, ‘‘Low Tide After the Third Wave: Exploring Politics under Authoritarianism,’’ Comparative Politics, July 2002; and Jason Brownlee, ‘‘The Decline of Pluralism in Mubarak’s Egypt,’’ Journal of Democracy, October 2002. Reprinted in Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Daniel Brumberg (eds.), Islam and Democracy in the Middle East (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).

See Metin Heper and Itzkowitz-Shifrinson, ‘‘Civil-Military Relations in Israel and Turkey,’’ Journal of Political and Military Sociology 33, no. 2 (Winter 2005) for a comparison of Israel and Turkey. Anthony Forster, Armed Forces and Society in Europe (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) also includes Turkey in his comparative study of armed forces in Europe. Nilüfer Narli, ‘‘Civil-Military Relations in Turkey,’’ in The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in South East Europe, ed. Phillip H. Fluri, Gustav E. Gustenau, and Plamen I. Pantev (Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag, 2005) is also included in Southern European military enclave. Metin Heper and Aylin Guney, ‘‘The Military and the Consolidation of Democracy: The Recent Turkish Experience,’’ Armed Forces & Society 26, no. 4 (October 2000) compares Turkey to Latin America in terms of democratic consolidation and transformation of their militaries.

David Sorenson, ‘‘Civil-Military Relations in North Africa,’’ Middle East Policy 14, no. 4 (Winter 2007), for example, compares Algeria to similar North African countries and distinguishes between military as ‘‘another player’’ or as ‘‘a dominating actor.’’ Mehran Kamrava, ‘‘Military Professionalization and Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East,’’ Political Science Quarterly 115, no. 1 (2000), however, compares Turkey to Israel more than any other authoritarian state in the Middle East.

For example, see Larry Diamond, Consolidating Democracy: Toward Consolidation (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999); Robert A. Dahl, On Democracy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998).

See Nil S. Satana ‘‘Transformation of the Turkish Military and the Path to Democracy,’’ Armed Forces & Society 34, no. 3 (2008): 357-88 for a discussion on democratization and on how Turkish military has transformed in the last decades and converged with the postmodern military framework of Charles C. William Moskos, John Allen, and David R. Segal, eds., The Postmodern Military: Armed Forces after the Cold War (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

See Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)

See Ersel Aydinli, Nihat Ali Ozcan, and Dogan Akyaz, ‘‘The Turkish Military’s March toward Europe,’’ Foreign Affairs 85, no. 1 (2006): 77-90 for the nature and extent of this transformation. Tanel Demirel, ‘‘Civil-Military Relations in Turkey: Two Patterns of Civilian Behaviour Towards the Military,’’ Turkish Studies 4, no. 3 (Autumn 2003): 1-25 also discusses how civilian attitude toward the Turkish military has transformed. Kadir Varoglu and Adnan Bicaksiz, ‘‘Volunteering for Risk: The Culture of the Turkish Armed Forces,’’ Armed Forces & Society 31, no. 4 (July 2005): 583-98, however, examine how the culture of the Turkish military has changed over the years, which contributed to democratization.

Final Expert Report, ‘‘Turkish Civil-Military Relations and the EU: Preparation for Continuing Convergence,’’ Groningen, CESS, 2005. The report is a result of a Taskforce under the Centre for European Studies (CESS), Netherlands, in cooperation with the Istanbul Policy Center (IPC), Turkey. Prominent experts on Turkish CMR are the members of the Task Force.