Global Patterns of Mass Violence: Ottoman Borderlands in Context,1890-1920

本项目研究奥斯曼帝国针对少数民族--亚美尼亚人、亚述人、雅兹迪人和希腊人--实施的大规模暴力的变革层面，以及该帝国暴力历史对巴尔干和黎凡特地区(叙利亚、伊拉克和黎巴嫩)的历史影响和后果。特别是，它强调了国际、国家间、中央和区域行为者所发挥的关键作用，他们在帝国的国家和社区建设进程中发挥了关键作用，从而建立了新的土耳其共和国(1923年)。它将重新思考关于后奥斯曼帝国时代中东崛起的经典历史叙事，并寻求理解大规模暴力的更广泛的全球层面。

This project examines the transformative dimensions of mass violence committed against the minorities of the Ottoman Empire – Armenians, Assyrians, Yazidis, and Greeks – and the historical impact and consequences of the Empire’s violent history on the Balkans and the Levant (Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon). In particular, it highlights the crucial role played by international, inter-state, central, and regional actors, who undertook critical roles in the national and community-building process of the Empire, resulting in the foundation of the new Turkish Republic (1923). It will rethink the classical historical narrative about the emergence of the post-Ottoman Middle East, and seek to understand the wider, global dimensions of mass violence.