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Westernizing the Third World
The second edition of this successful and popular text has been updated and revised to include recent issues in development economics. Significant new additions include: * Asian values and development * democracy, human rights and good governance * globalization and development * boxed summaries of key arguments and glossary. Westernizing the Third World identifies the mainstream economic theories which have been employed in developing countries. The author examines these and explains why Eurocentric concepts are not suitable for the developing world.
Uzun Ali
UZUN ALI: SHAME AND SALVATION is a family story of Cyprus as it was at the end of the 19th century...It is a world of Zaptiehs (police), bandits, Aghas (landlords) and divided communities... told as a story of family members, in three generations over 130 years, as they lived, loved and struggled in Ottoman, British, and the War years, through decades of violence and the short-lived independence in 1960. The bittersweet story of the Uzun Ali family unfolds in such diverse places, as Canada, England, Turkey, Uganda and Liberia but the glue that binds all is Cyprus.
Sustainability of Microstates
Discusses the development, economics, and politics of North Cyprus, a micro-state that perhaps possesses inherent comparative economic advantages enabling sustainability in today's economic world.
Islamic Identity and Development
Turkey and Malaysia, two countries on the Islamic periphery, are often not included in discussions of Islamic reassertion and identity. Yet both have been at the forefront of modernization and development, and are exposed to a rising trend of Islamic revival which discloses a deep, psychological identity crisis. In Islamic Identity and Development, Ozay Mehmet examines this identity crisis in the wider context of the Islamic dilemma of reconciling nationalism with Islam. He sees the Islamic revival primarily as a protest movement, concentrated among urban migrant settlements where uneven post-war growth has upset the traditional Islamic order. He argues that Islamic societies must move towards greater openness and an organic relationship between rulers and ruled. In particular, Mehmet suggests the need for a public policy that is not only responsive to material human needs but which also satisfies the ethical preconditions of the Islamic social contract.
Islamic Identity and Development after the Ottomans
Exploring themes of identity and development in the post-Ottoman Arab world, this book updates the author’s earlier Islamic Identity and Development (Routledge, 1990) to analyse the root causes of chaos, civil war, and conflict in the Islamic Core today. Adopting a neo-Ottomanist framework, and using the latest scholarship on the Middle East, the author traces the historical development of the current crisis to the First World War, when the West instigated invasions, coup d’états, civil and proxy wars. It is argued that Western powers have facilitated the dispossession of the Arab people in their overarching aim to gain control of the oil fields. A range of historical case-studies are p...
Angelina's Treasure, Cyprus 1570+
Angelina's Treasure, Cyprus 1570+ is a family history of Ottoman Cyprus: a story of intrigue, conspiracy, tax revolts, harem politics and the financial ruin of an Empire. A prequel to Uzun Ali, Shame and Salvation, it is a fictional exploration of the long roots of the Cyprus Problem. Ozay MEHMET was born in Nicosia in 1938. He is married and has three sons. He lives with wife Karen in Ottawa, Canada and part of the year in North Cyprus. He is an economist and a Professor Emeritus, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Economic Planning and Social Justice in Developing Countries
First published in 1978, this book was written at a time when belief was high in Western-guided economic development of the emerging countries. The success of Marshall Plan in war-torn Europe generated a US-led optimism that, with generous inflows of aid and technical assistance, the Third World could be won over in the Cold War. The author’s direct experience as a young academic economist in Cyprus, Malaysia, Uganda and Liberia led him to question this general optimism: the reality on the ground in the developing world did not seem to match Western optimism. Theories and blueprints, made in the West, did not fit the requirements of developing countries. Higher production and better income...
Water Balances in the Eastern Mediterranean
Water Balances in the Eastern Mediterranean
Small Islands in Maritime Disputes: Greek Turkish Energy Geo-politics
This book explores the delicate interconnections between law and economics, especially as regards island entitlements under international maritime law. This is an area in the literature generally overlooked because maritime law has been the domain of legal experts. Maritime boundary disputes are over resources, a vitally important economic subject. Yet, the economics of maritime law has been ignored. Lawyers and legal experts have dominated the field, to the alarming degree of causing needless international conflicts. Our monograph addresses this serious neglect. The methodology would be rational behavior model, one specifically formulated to make the case that dialog and negotiation between these countries is the rational choice leading to win-win outcome in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean territorial waters. Public and private sector actors identified as key decision-makers in all phases of hydrocarbon development and monetization, within an overall win-win framework.
