Introduction / Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepan -- Rethinking Ottoman management of diversity : what can we learn for modern Turkey / Karen Barkey -- The historical roots of Kemalism / M. Sukru Hanioglu -- Turkey-plural society and monolithic state / Ergun Ozbudun -- Laicité as an "ideal type" and a continuum : comparing Turkey, France, and Senegal / Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepan -- A new politics of engagement : the Turkish military, society, and the AKP / Umit Cizre -- The Turkish constitutional court and political crisis / Ergun Ozbudun -- Turkey's accession to the European Union and the role of the Justice and Development Party / Joost Lagendijk -- The "Turkish model" in the matrix of political Catholicism / Stathis N. Kalyvas.