Internationalism and the New Turkey: American Peace Education in the Kemalist Republic, 1923-1933

This study is a review of Gothenburg University history professor Erik Sjöberg's book Internationalism and the New Turkey: American Peace Education in the Kemalist Republic, 1923-1933. The book, which is the main source work and which is based on the records of Robert College, consists of a total of five chapters: Background: Robert College and Late Ottoman Society (pp. 23-56), Years of Transition: Adapting to the Republican Order, 1923-1927 (pp. 57-110), A Moderate and True Nationalism: The Philosophy and Practice of Internationalism and Peace Education at Robert College, 1927-1933 (pp. 111-150), Wonderful Changes, Broken Unity: Modernity, Ottoman Past, and National Belonging in the Essays of Robert College Students (pp. 151-198) and Internationalism Defeated: The Downfall of Edgar Fisher (pp. 199-234).