Polarized Democracy: A Place for Israel and Turkey?

Israel and Turkey both face challenges to their democracies, as well as ethnic divisions and questions regarding the meaning of citizenship. Joining the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies as a guest speaker, Louis Fishman — an associate professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York — discusses the domestic politics in both countries, their similarities and differences, and their importance for global democracy and regional security. The seminar was moderated by Ayça Alemdaroğlu, associate director of the Program on Turkey and a research scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.