Articles by Sahin Alpay

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Can the US Turn Fascist?
Şahin Alpay, Today’s Zaman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2016

31 Jan 2016 – Johan Galtung, the Norwegian mathematician, political scientist, sociologist and the founder of the field of peace and conflict resolution studies, argued in his book The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? (TRANSCEND University Press, 2009) that just as the Roman Empire disintegrated, the American Empire (or the US and Western hegemony over the world) would collapse not later than the year 2025.

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Turkey’s Big Business Opts for Consolidation of Democracy
Sahin Alpay – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Apr 2011

The principles now open to public deliberation have been advanced, discussed and broadly agreed upon by liberals and democrats in Turkey in a debate that started in the early 1990s. What the TÜSİAD report suggests is, briefly, that the Constitution based on Kemalism (secular nationalism) drawn by the military in 1982 be replaced by one that is based on the principles of liberal democracy.

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