Vortrag von Dr. Ozan Ozavci
"A New History of the Eastern Question –
Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864"
Montag, 2. Mai, 18 Uhr (c.t.)
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hörsaal 00A26 im CNMS (Deutschhausstraße 12)
Dr. Ozavci (Universität Utrecht) wird in diesem Vortrag sein neues Buch
"Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864" vorstellen;
Das Buch ist 2021 bei Oxford University Press erschienen und dort im open access zugänglich.
From Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the foreign armed interventions in the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya today, global empires or the so-called Great Powers have long assumed the responsibility to bring security to the Middle East. In this book talk, Ozan Ozavci will revisit the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origins of these imperial security practices and discuss how it all began. Why did Great Power interventions in the Ottoman Levant tend to result in further turmoil and civil wars? Why has the region been embroiled in a paradox—an increasing demand despite the allegedly increasing supply of security—ever since? He will embed this highly pertinent genealogical account into a new history of the Eastern Question and draw links to present-day issues such as the Ukraine war.
Der Vortrag wird organisiert vom Lehrstuhl von Benedikt Stuchtey in Kooperation mit dem Marburger CNMS und dem SFB-Teilprojekt C08.
