Economist dergisinin 167 ülke arasında yaptığı "Dünya Demokrasi Endeksi" araştırmasında, Türkiye 2008'e göre 2010 yılında iki basamak geriye giderek, 89. sıraya inmiştir. Ülkelerin "tam demokrasi", "kusurlu demokrasi" ve "melez rejim" diye üçe ayrıldığı bu araştırmada Türkiye, ne yazık ki, "kusurlu demokrasi"ler arasına bile girememiş, Tanzanya, Filistin, Uganda, Sierra Leone ve Haiti gibi ülkelerle birlikte "Hibrid (melez) rejim" olarak anılmıştır.
Freedom House adlı örgütün "Dünyada Özgürlük 2011" raporunda ise 1193 ülke "özgür", "kısmen özgür" ve "özgür" olmayan kategorileri altında üçe ayrılmıştır. Türkiye, bu raporda ise "kısmen özgür" ülkeler kategorisinde yer alabilmiştir.İşte tam da bu noktada, ülkemiz bir daha gerçekten özgür seçimlerin yapılma imkanının olmayabileceği, otoriter bir etnik merkezli federal başkanlık sistemi üzerinden parçalanmaya doğru hızla ilerlemektedir. İktisat filozofu diye nitelendirilen Ege Cansen'in 22 Ocak 2011'deki Hürriyet'teki köşesinde yapmış olduğu "AKP'nin, gerek büyük devletlerin 'bırakın Kürtler kendi kendini yönetsin' baskılarıyla, gerek kendi felsefesi sonucunda Türkiye'de bölünme fiilen başlamıştır" tespiti, artık hâlâ uyuyanlara yapılmış son çağrıdır.Böyle bir ortamda bu kitabın yazarlarından birisi olan genç akademisyen korktuğu için adının kitapta yayınlanmasını istememiştir. Çünkü bu Türkiye'de otoriter bir rejim olan hegemonik parti sisteminin nasıl kurulduğunun gerçek hikayesidir. Ancak Türk milleti demokrasiden ve hukuk devletinden olduğu gibi ülkesinin bütünlüğünden de vazgeçmeyecektir.(Tanıtım Bülteninden)
Ümit Özdağ was born in Tokyo, Japan on 03.03.1961. The family returned to Turkey at the end of 1963. Ümit Özdağ spent his childhood in Turkey.
Ümit Özdağ completed his primary, secondary and high school education at TED Ankara College. Ümit Özdağ began his political struggle in the idealist movement at Çankaya Ülkü Ocakları and Ankara College in Ankara during his high school years.
Ümit Özdağ completed his higher education at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich between 1980-1986. He studied at the faculties of political science and philosophy at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Ümit Özdağ prepared his master's thesis on "Planned Development and State Planning Organization in Turkey".
Ümit Özdağ started working as a research assistant at Gazi University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1986. In 1990, he became a doctor of political science with his study on “Army-Politics Relations in the Period of Atatürk and İnönü”.
Dr. Özdağ received the title of associate professor of political theory in 1993 with his thesis on “Army-Politics Relations in the Period of Menderes and the Military Movement of May 27”.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ümit Özdağ started publishing and edited the three-month international relations and strategic research journal called “Eurasia File”, which was published until 2004.
Özdağ, who has been conducting research on terrorism and ethnic problems since the late 1980s, conducted socio-political field research in the provinces that received migration from Eastern, Southeastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia provinces in 1995.
Ümit Özdağ conducted research on globalization and ethnic problems in Eurasia at Towson University in Baltimore, USA in 1997-1998 and gave lectures on the same subjects.
Ümit Özdağ founded the Eurasian Strategic Research Center (ASAM), one of the largest strategic research centers in the world and the first of the modern strategic research institutions in Turkey, in 1999. In 2000, he founded the Armenian Research Institute, which operates under ASAM. Ümit Özdağ served as the president and chairman of the board of directors of ASAM until 2004.
Prof. Dr. Ümit Özdağ founded and chaired the think tank called “21st Century Turkey Institute” in 2005.
Ümit Özdağ gave lectures and conferences not only at Gazi University, where he is a faculty member, but also at the Military Academy, Police Academy, Police Intelligence Department, National Security Academy, National Security Academy Public Diplomacy Courses, Justice College and the Ministry of Interior.
Prof. Dr. Özdağ has given conferences at various universities and research centers in Washington, Moscow, Tokyo, New Delhi, Cairo, Alexandria, Brussels, Tehran, Bishkek, Alma Ata, London, Munich and Tel Aviv. He has also participated in congresses in many countries and presented papers.
Prof. Dr. Ümit Özdağ, who works on security sciences, intelligence science, low-intensity conflict, ethnic issues, the European Union, Eurasia and the Middle East, has twenty-eight published books. He has published 11 books that he edited. He has four books translated from German. He has over 300 articles published in magazines and newspapers such as Avrasya Dosyası, Stratejik Analiz, Türk Yurdu, 21 Yüzyıl. Prof. Dr. Ümit Özdağ speaks English and German.
Ümit Özdağ, who organized a commemoration event on the 99th anniversary of the August 26 Great Offensive, officially founded the Zafer Party with 194 founding board members by submitting the foundation petition of the Zafer Party to the Ministry of Interior on this meaningful day.