development planning

This thesis looks at the Bedouin community of the Negev region of Israel, a traditional society within a modern nation-state. The Bedouins, originally pastoral nomads, are subjected to a rapid urbanization process that is the result of government intervention policies on one han…

Through the analysis of the inception and development of the Middle East Technical University (METU), this dissertation examines the relationship between the diverging ideologies of development that became prevalent within the democratizing and decolonizing contexts of the postw…