Yavuz Aykan, Işık Tamdoğan (dirs.). Forms and institutions of justice: Legal actions in Ottoman contexts. [Bibliothèque (électronique) de l’IFEA 3] Istanbul, IFEA, 2018, lien, ISBN : 9782362450723. DOI : 10.4000/books.ifeagd.2316 The articles forming the present volume aim to contribute to the rich and evolving historiography on the multiplicity of the actors and the institutions of Ottoman legal system. As the title of the volume suggests, “forms” and “institutions” of justice are a common thread in the contributions. Each article concentrates on a specific historical moment and context in order to chart the articulation of different forms of Ottoman justice. This volume has emerged as an outcome of a workshop entitled Journée d’études La justice dans la société ottomane Institutions acteurs et pratiques

B. Balcı & T. Liles, « Turkey’s Comeback to Central Asia », Insight Turkey, 20(4) 2018, p. 11-26. Lien As regularly noted in academic sources and regional analyses, Turkey is situated at the crossroads of several regions that were historically dominated or targeted by Ottoman rulers. Regardless of what the leadership of post-Ottoman Turkey may have intended, the country has always been sensitive to political developments in the Middle East, the Balkans, the wider Black Sea region and the Mediterranean. Although never part of the Ottoman Empire, post-Soviet Central Asia has garnered equally strong interest among Turkish policymakers, not least because of ethnic, linguistic, and religious commonalities. Yet, Central Asia’s position in Turkish foreign policy has received comparatively scant analytical attention in