Rodogno Against Massacre

Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4001-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Reihe: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity

Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions and noninterventions in the Ottoman Empire and brings a new view to this international practice for the contemporary era.

While it is commonly believed that humanitarian interventions are a fairly recent development, Rodogno demonstrates that almost two centuries ago an international community, under the aegis of certain European powers, claimed a moral and political right to intervene in other states' affairs to save strangers from massacre, atrocity, or extermination. On some occasions, these powers acted to protect fellow Christians when allegedly "uncivilized" states, like the Ottoman Empire, violated a "right to life." Exploring the political, legal, and moral status, as well as European perceptions, of the Ottoman Empire, Rodogno investigates the reasons that were put forward to exclude the Ottomans from the so-called Family of Nations. He considers the claims and mixed motives of intervening states for aiding humanity, the relationship between public outcry and state action or inaction, and the bias and selectiveness of governments and campaigners.

An original account of humanitarian interventions some two centuries ago, Against Massacre investigates the varied consequences of European involvement in the Ottoman Empire and the lessons that can be learned for similar actions today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodogno, Davide

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Chapter One: The International Context of Nineteenth-Century Humanitarian Interventions 18

Chapter Two: Exclusion of the Ottoman Empire from the Family of Nations,and Legal Doctrines of Humanitarian Intervention 36

Chapter Three: Intervention on Behalf of Ottoman Greeks (1821-33) 63

Chapter Four: Intervention in Ottoman Lebanon and Syria (1860-61) 91

Chapter Five: The First Intervention in Crete (1866-69) 118

Chapter Six: Nonintervention during the Eastern Crisis (1875-78) 141

Chapter Seven: Intermezzo-The International Context (1878-1908) 170

Chapter Eight: Nonintervention on Behalf of the Ottoman Armenians (1886-1909) 185

Chapter Nine: The Second Intervention in Crete (1896-1900) 212

Chapter Ten: Nonforcible Intervention in the Ottoman Macedonian Provinces (1903-08) 229

Epilogue 247

Abbreviations 277

Notes 279

Bibliography 345

Index 385

Über Autor(innen)

Davide Rodogno is Fonds National Suisse Research Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is the author of Fascism's European Empire.