Turkey’s Changing Freedom Deficit (Timur Kuran, Project-Syndicate)

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/turkey-post-coup-repression-by-timur-kuran-2016-09

The Roots of Middle East Mistrust (Timur Kuran, Project-Syndicate)

The mistrust that pervades Middle Eastern societies is hard to miss. As controlled experiments confirm, Arabs have substantially less trust in strangers, foreign or domestic, than, say, Europeans. This hampers progress on many fronts, from business development to government reforms.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/roots-of-middle-east-mistrust-by-timur-kuran-2016-07