Emre Toros, professor of political science and dean of the communications faculty at Ankara’s Hacettepe University, on “Electoral Integrity in Turkey” (Edinburgh University Press). The book weighs up the country’s democratic credentials after over two decades of rule by Erdogan’s party, both in...

Christopher Phillips, professor of international relations at Queen Mary, University of London, on “Battleground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East” (Yale University Press). The conversation explores the region’s fiendishly complicated geopolitical rivalries, as well as how Turkey’s...