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From Napoleon Bonaparte''s invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the foreign interventions in the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Yemen, and Libya today, global empires or the so-called Great Powers have long assumed responsibility to bring security in the Middle East. The past two centuries have witnessed their numerous military occupations to ''liberate'', ''secure'', and ''educate'' local populations. They staged the first ''humanitarian'' interventions in history and established hitherto unseen international and local security institutions. Consulting fresh primary sources collected from some thirty archives in the Middle East, Russia, the United States, and Western Europe, Dangerous Gifts revisits the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origins of these imperial security practices. It questions 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 paradoxan ever-increasing demand f

Dangerous Gifts

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From Napoleon Bonaparte''s invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the foreign interventions in the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Yemen,... Read more

    Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Publication Date: 1/29/2024
    ISBN13: 9780198912149, 978-0198912149
    ISBN10: 198912145

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    From Napoleon Bonaparte''s invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the foreign interventions in the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Yemen, and Libya today, global empires or the so-called Great Powers have long assumed responsibility to bring security in the Middle East. The past two centuries have witnessed their numerous military occupations to ''liberate'', ''secure'', and ''educate'' local populations. They staged the first ''humanitarian'' interventions in history and established hitherto unseen international and local security institutions. Consulting fresh primary sources collected from some thirty archives in the Middle East, Russia, the United States, and Western Europe, Dangerous Gifts revisits the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origins of these imperial security practices. It questions 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 paradoxan ever-increasing demand f

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