Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

by Suzy Hansen

“There’s an America that exists inside the borders of the United States, which is a very different entity from the America that projects its force outside the United States … There are kind of two Americas.”

Like a monster discovering this delicious country for the first time, the AK Party dammed the rivers, built hydroelectric and thermal power plants, and sent more men into coal mines—in part so the country would have enough electricity to eat up the forests and build hotels, and malls, and apartment buildings, and bridges, and tunnels, and airports. Nothing seemed to make Erdoğan happier than the smell of freshly laid asphalt.