They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?
The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the New Imperial Order
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They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?
The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the New Imperial Order
About This Book
An analysis of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne from multiple historical, economic, and social perspectives. The last of the post-World War One peace settlements, the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne departed from methods used in the Treaty of Versailles and took on a new peace-making initiative: a forced population exchange that affected one and a half million people. Like its German and Austro-Hungarian allies, the defeated Ottoman Empire had initially been presented with a dictated peace in 1920. In just two years, however, the Kemalist insurgency enabled Turkey to become the first sovereign state in the Middle East, while the Greeks, Armenians, Arabs, Egyptians, Kurds, and other communities previously under the Ottoman Empire sought their own forms of sovereignty.Featuring historical analysis from multiple perspectives, They All Made Peace, What is Peace? considers the Lausanne Treaty and its legacy. Chapters investigate British, Turkish, and Soviet designs in the post-Ottoman world, situate the population exchanges relative to other peacemaking efforts, and discuss the economic factors behind the reallocation of Ottoman debt and the management of refugee flows. Further chapters examine Kurdish, Arab, Iranian, Armenian, and other communities that were refused formal accreditation at Lausanne, but which were still forced to live with the consequences, consequences that are still emerging, one hundred years on.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. From The Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic: International Law and Minority Rights before and after Lausanne
- 2. Britain’s Plans for a New Eastern Mediterranean Empire, 1916–1923
- 3. On the Margins of the Lausanne Conference: The Soviet Union and the Exclusions of the Post-World War I International Order
- 4. The Lausanne Treaty in the Contested Narratives of World Politics
- 5. Debates over an Armenian National Home at the Lausanne Conference and the Limits of Post-Genocide Co-Existence
- 6. Iranian Attempts to Participate in the Lausanne Conference
- 7. Arab Exclusion at Lausanne: A Critical Historical Juncture
- 8. Oil over Armenians: The 1920s ‘Lausanne Shift’ in US Relations with the Middle East
- 9. The Mosul Question
- 10. Turkey and the Division of the Ottoman Debt at Lausanne
- 11. International Law and the Greek-Bulgarian and Greek-Turkish Population Exchanges
- 12. A Capitalist Peace? Money, Labour, and Refugee Resettlement in the Lausanne Accords
- 13. At the Crossroads of History: Thanassis Aghnides, Ayrilios Spatharis and the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange
- 14. Framing Pasts and Futures at the Lausanne Conference
- 15. Lausanne in Turkish Official and Popular Historiography: A ‘War of Identities’ in Turkey
- 16. Diplomacy, Entertainment, Souvenir? Guignol à Lausanne (1923) and the Lausanne Conference in Caricature
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index