Introduction. The historic near east peace of Lausanne; 1. A century's pivotal 'peace'; 2. Against the Paris-Geneva peace: Bolsheviks, Turkists, Islamists; 3. A protracted conference: redefining Turkey, western realpolitik.
Offers a history of the Treaty of Lausanne, outlining the decade of war that preceded it and its enduring impact in the Middle East and beyond.
Hans-Lukas Kieser is Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Zurich. His books include Talât Pasha (2018), Nearest East (2010) and the edited volume Remembering the Great War in the Middle East (2022).
'Rather than viewing the Treaty of Lausanne from the perspective of
the victorious founders of the Turkish Republic, this critical
study examines the Treaty from that of its losers. Kieser
convincingly argues that the Treaty legalized and rewarded ethnic
cleansing; sounded the death-knell for democratic
self-determination; and ushered in extreme nationalist,
authoritarian rule in Turkey.' Marc Baer, London School of
Economics
'This study gives an original interpretation of the Lausanne
Treaty. It allows us to understand the emergence of the two new
regimes of the post-Great War period: fascism in Italy and Kemalism
in Turkey, which, together with the Bolshevik Soviet Union,
considered themselves to be the pillars of an antidemocratic age to
come.' Hamit Bozarslan, EHESS, School for Advanced Studies in the
Social Sciences, Paris
'Kieser offers an important corrective to histories of modern
Turkey. He shows that 'colonialism' is not the only process to
blame for the Middle East's anti-democratic tradition, and that
Europe owes some of its interwar fascism and ultranationalism to
the Lausanne Conference. The Lausanne Treaty, the book shows, reads
like a manual on how to get away with genocide. Germany was
watching.' Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
'In this brilliant study, Kieser shows how the Lausanne Treaty
proved both a crucial endpoint of the Paris system and the basis
for the rise of authoritarianism. Carefully researched and cogently
argued, it finetunes understandings of fascism by revealing the
family resemblances between Turkey and other regimes that sought to
eliminate minorities.' Michelle Tusan, University of Nevada, Las
Vegas
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