Book Review: Bill Park, Modern Turkey: People, State and Foreign Policy in a Globalized World, New York, Routledge, 2011.

The phenomenon of globalization is one of the most puzzling issues in international relations discipline. While many scholars argue that the globalization process affects the world in a revolutionary way that causes questioning the territory-based understanding of politics, economics and international relations and re-explaining these areas with a non-spatial approach, others describe this phenomenon as a new tool of big powers to redesign the world politics and economics. Defining what the globalization is only the beginning of the puzzle. Then more complicated questions arise such as: How did the globalization process develop? Is it a natural process that occurs per se or driven by any actor? What kind of effects does it have on states and societies?