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Introduction: Eastern European-Middle Eastern Relations: Continuities and Changes from the Time of Empires to the Cold War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2021

Sandrine Kott*
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Département d'histoire générale, Université de Genève, Faculté des Lettres, 5, Rue Saint-Ours (rez) CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland
Cyrus Schayegh*
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Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2/511, Maison de la Paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland

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7 Ussama Makdisi, Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007).

8 Paul Gradvohl and Antoine Marès, ‘Enjeux historiques de l'approche de l'Europe médiane’, Monde(s): Histoire, Espaces, Relations, 14 (2018), 7–30. See also e.g. Balás Trencsényi and Márton Zászkaliczky, eds., Whose Love of Which Country? Composite States, National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2010).

9 Stefan Rohdewald, ‘bu sulh u salah mukarrer ve mü’ebbed’/‘Pax perpetua’. ‘Polnisch-litauische Friedensformeln und Allianzen mit Osmanen und Krimtataren bis 1790’, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 65, 2 (2016), 167–92. Conference report on ‘Contact Zones in Turkish-Polish Relations’ (05 June 2015), http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-5510; Dirk Uffelmann, ‘Importierte Dinge und imaginierte Identität. Osmanische ‘Sarmatica im Polen der Aufklärung’, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 65, 2 (2016), 193–214.

10 Victor Taki, Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire (New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016). Comparative: Dominic Lieven, Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals (London: John Murray, 2000).

11 Marlene Kurz et al., eds., Das Osmanische Reich und die Habsburgermonarchie (Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2005); Norbert Spannenberger and Szabolcs Varga, eds., Ein Raum im Wandel. Die osmanisch-habsburgische Grenzregion vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2014); Arno Strohmeyer and Norbert Spannenberger, eds., Frieden und Konfliktmanagement in interkulturellen Räumen (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2013).

12 Étienne Copeaux, ‘De la mer Noire à la mer Baltique: la circulation des idées dans le “triangle” Istanbul-Crimée-Pologne’, Cahiers d’études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien, 15 (1993), 111.

13 Zaur Gasimov, ‘Modernisierer und Mittler im polnisch-türkischen intellektuellen Nexus’, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 65 (2016), 241–65; Paulina Dominik, ‘A Young Turk from Lehistan. Tadeusz Gasztowt aka Seyfeddin Bey (1881–1936) and his Activities During the Second Constitutional Period’, Occasional Papers in Ottoman Biographies 2 (2014), 1–20.

14 Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, ‘Alternative Muslim Modernities: Bosnian Intellectuals in the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 59, 4 (2017), 912–43.

15 Lale Can, ‘The Protection Question: Central Asians and Extraterritoriality in the Late Ottoman Empire’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48 (2016), 679–99. For the early twentieth century, see Adeeb Khalid, ‘Central Asia between the Ottoman and the Soviet Worlds’, Kritika, 12, 2 (2011), 451–76. On Islam in Russia in general, see Robert D. Crews, For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) and a more recent interpretation, Mustafa Tuna, Imperial Russia's Muslims: Islam, Empire and European Modernity, 1788–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

16 James H. Meyer, Turks across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856–1914 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

17 Vladimir Hamed-Troyanski, ‘Imperial Refuge: Resettlement of Muslims from Russia in the Ottoman Empire, 1860–1914’ (PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 2018).

18 Denis Vovchenko, Containing Balkan Nationalism: Imperial Russia and Ottoman Christians, 1856–1914 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). More broadly: Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky, eds., Russian-Ottoman Borderlands. The Eastern Question Reconsidered (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). See also Taki, Tsar and Sultan; Lieven, The Russian Empire.

19 Note that the current meaning of ‘minority’, a group whose most often ethnic or religious particularity has political consequences for ‘its’ nation-state, crystallised following the First World War. Benjamin White, The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), 21–3.

20 Justin McCarthy, Death and Exile. The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821–1922 (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1995).

21 Ussama Makdisi, The Age of Coexistence. The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019).

22 Antonio Ferrara and Niccolò Pianciola, ‘The Dark Side of Connectedness: Forced Migrations and Mass Violence between the Late Tsarist and Ottoman Empires (1853–1920)’, Historical Research, 92, 257 (2019), 608–31; M. Hakan Yavuz and Hakan Erdagoz, ‘The Tragedy of the Ottomans: Muslims in the Balkans and Armenians in Anatolia’, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 39, 3 (2019), 273–81; Erik-Jan Zürcher, ‘Macedonians in Anatolia: The Importance of the Macedonian Roots of the Unionists for their Policies in Anatolia after 1914’, Middle Eastern Studies 50, 6 (2014), 960–75. Thus, Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg, eds., The Holocaust and the Nakba. A New Grammar of Trauma and History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018) diagnoses two foundational traumas shaping two interconnected nations.

23 Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz, Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013); Julia Eichenberg and John Paul Newman, ‘Introduction: Aftershocks: Violence in Dissolving Empires after the First World War’, Contemporary European History, 19, 3 (2010), 183–94; Robert Gerwarth and Uğur Ümit Üngör, ‘The Collapse of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires and the Brutalization of the Successor States’, Journal of Modern European History, 13, 2 (2015), 226–48; Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela, eds., Empires at War, 1911–1923 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014); Mark von Hagen and Karen Barkley, eds., After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997). Focused on Eastern Europe: Tim Buchen and Frank Grelka, eds., Akteure der Neuordnung. Ostmitteleuropa und das Erbe der Imperien, 1917–1924 (Berlin: Epubli, 2016).

24 The Western European professor in the commission failed to notice that the First World War on the western front was not less savage than the Balkan war: Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 3–6.

25 Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).

26 Gradvohl and Marès, ‘Enjeux’, 17; Mazower, Balkans, 58.

27 France was a republic in 1792–1804 and 1848–51 and from 1870; Sweden/Finland was a monarchy, too.

28 Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg, Stefan Rohdewald and Dirk Uffelmann, ‘Einleitung: Polnisch-osmanische Verflechtungen in Kommunikation, materieller Kultur, Literatur und Wissenschaft’, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 65, 2 (2016), 161n10.

29 Habsburg Empire: Tara Zahra, Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008); Gary Cohen, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861–1914 (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1981).

30 John Deak, ‘Habsburg Studies within Central European History: The State of the Field’, Central European History 51 (2018), 54. A case: Dominique Kirchner Reill, Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012).

31 Miroslav Hroch, Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Composition of Patriotic Groups among the Smaller European Nations (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); Miroslav Hroch, Das Europa der Nationen: die moderne Nationsbildung im europäischen Vergleich (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005).

32 Feroz Ahmad, ‘Ottoman Perceptions of the Capitulations 1800–1914’, Journal of Islamic Studies, 11, 1 (2000), 1–20; Turan Kayaoğlu, Legal Imperialism: Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010); Umut Özsu, ‘The Ottoman Empire and the Abode of Islam’, in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

33 Miller and Berger, Nationalizing Empires; Ulrike von Hirschausen and Jörn Leonhard, eds., Empires und Nationalstaaten: im 19. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009). See also Ulrike von Hirschhausen and Jörn Leonhard, eds., Comparing Empires. Encounters and Transfers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011). For inter-imperial mimesis more generally, see Jeremy Adelman, ‘Mimesis and Rivalry: European Empires and Global Regimes’, Journal of Global History, 10 (2015), 77–98.

34 Khoury and Kennedy, ‘Comparing Empires’; Gammerl, ‘Vergleich von Reich zu Reich’. More generally: Virginia H. Aksan, ‘Locating the Ottomans among Early Modern Empires’, Journal of Early Modern History, 3 (1999), 103–34; Mikhail and Philliou, ‘Imperial Turn’.

35 Copeaux, ‘Mer’; also Arkadiusz Blaszczyk, ‘Von duchi´nszczyzna bis zur Sonnensprachtheorie. Über die Verflechtungen zwischen polnischem Anti-Russismus und türkischem Nationalismus’, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 65, 2 (2016), 215–40.

36 See also Magdalena Wrobel Bloom, Social Networks and the Jewish Migration between Poland and Palestine, 1924–1928 (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2016).

37 Hugh Poulton, ‘The Muslim Experience in the Balkan States, 1919–1991’, Nationalities Papers, 28, 1 (2000), 45–66. Migration: Kemal Kirişci, ‘Post Second World War Immigration from the Balkan Countries to Turkey (Excerpts)’, Turkish Review of Balkan Studies 2 (1994), 175–80; Hikmet Öksüz and Ülkü Köksal, ‘Emigration from Yugoslavia to Turkey (1923–1960)’, Turkish Review of Balkan Studies 9 (2004), 145–77; Ayşe Parla, ‘“For Us, Migration is Ordinary”: Post-1989 Labour Migration from Bulgaria to Turkey’, in Hans Vermeulen, Martin Baldwin-Edwards and Riki van Boeschoten, eds., Migration in the Southern Balkans: From Ottoman Territory to Globalized Nation States (Cham: Springer International, 2015).

38 Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi and Emmanuel Szurek, ‘Introduction’, in Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi and Emmanuel Szurek, eds., Kemalism: Transnational Politics in the Post-Ottoman World (London: Tauris, 2019), 5. See also Dženghis Hakov, ‘Les relations bulgaro-turques à la lumière de l'influence kémaliste parmi les Turcs bulgares pendant les années vingt et trente’, Études Balkaniques, 33, 3–4 (1997), 25–32; Anđelko Vlašić, ‘Modern Women in a Modern State: Public Discourse in Interwar Yugoslavia on the Status of Women in Turkey’, Aspasia, 12 (2018), 68–90.

39 General: Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, ‘Mental Maps. Die Konstruktion von geographischen Räumen in Europa seit der Aufklärung’, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 28, 3 (2002), 493–514; Huseyin Yilmaz, ‘The Eastern Question and the Ottoman Empire: The Genesis of the Near and Middle East in the Nineteenth Century’, in Michael Bonine, Abbas Amanat and Michael Ezekiel Gasper, eds., Is There a Middle East? The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012), 11–35.

40 Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1979); Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe. The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).

41 For Eastern Europe see Tomasz Zarycki, Ideologie of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe (New York: Routledge, 2014).

42 Certainly western Russia – though more rarely Russia to the east of the Urals – was both in Western European eyes and often in its own people's eyes a bridge between Europe and Asia, too. Mark Bassin, Sergey Glebov and Marlene Laruelle, eds., Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). See, relatedly, particularities of Russian Orientalism: Vera Tolz, Russia's Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). Also, see this fascinating exchange: Adeeb Khalid, ‘Russian History and the Debate over Orientalism’, Nathaniel Knight, ‘On Russian Orientalism: A Response to Adeeb Khalid’, and Maria Todorova, ‘Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian Soul? A Contribution to the Debate’, all in Kritika, 1, 4 (2000), 691–700, 701–15, and 717–27. See also Masha Kirasirova, ‘The “East” as a Category of Bolshevik Ideology and Comintern Administration: The Arab Section of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East’, Kritika, 18, 1 (2017), 7–34.

43 Quote: Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans, vii, 16; Milica Bakić-Hayden, ‘Nesting Orientalisms: The Case of Former Yugoslavia’, Slavic Review, 54, 4 (1995), 917–31.

44 First as: Henri Pirenne, ‘Mahomet et Charlemagne’, Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 1, 1 (1922), 77–86.

45 Greene, World; Christophe Picard, La mer des califes. Une histoire de la Méditerranée musulmane (VIIe–XIIe siècle) (Paris: Seuil, 2015).

46 Michele Alacevich, ‘Planning Peace: The European Roots of the Post-War Global Development Challenge’, Past & Present, 239, 1 (2018), 219–64 and Véronique Plata-Stenger, Social Reform, Modernization and Technical Diplomacy. The ILO Contribution to Development (1930–1946) (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020).

47 Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan, ‘The International Development of Economically Backward Areas’, International Affairs, 20, 2 (1944), 157–65, here 159. Also see his interview for the Oral World Bank History Project https://oralhistory.worldbank.org/transcripts/transcript-oral-history-interview-paul-rosenstein-rodan-held-august-14-1961 (accessed 11 Dec. 2020.)

48 Some talk of a laboratory: Ntina Tzouvala, ‘“These Ancient Arenas of Racial Struggles”: International Law and the Balkans, 1878–1949’, European Journal of International Law, 29, 4 (2018), 1149; Umut Özsu and Thomas Skouteris, ‘International Legal Histories of the Ottoman Empire’, Journal of the History of International Law, 18, 1 (2016), 1. Sovereignty: Hent Kalmo and Quentin Skinner, ‘Introduction’, in Hent Kalmo and Quentin Skinner, eds., Sovereignty in Fragments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 1–25; Antony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004); Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations. The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

49 Jacob Hurewitz, The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), vol. 2, 180.

50 Umut Özsu, Formalizing Displacement: International Law and Population Transfers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 26; Kayaoğlu, Legal Imperialism, 109–13.

51 Edda Binder-Iijima and Ekkehard Kraft, ‘The Making of States’, in Wim van Meurs and Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, eds., Ottomans into Europeans: State and Institution-building in South Eastern Europe (London: Hurst, 2010), 6.

52 Also Carole Fink, Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878–1938 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

53 For prewar Greece, including Orthodox ecclesiastical issues, see Sotirios Roussos, ‘Greece and the Arab Middle East’ (PhD dissertation, SOAS, 1994).

54 Matitiahu Mayzel, ‘Israeli Intelligence and the Leakage of Khrushchev's “Secret Speech”’, Journal of Israeli History, 32, 2 (2013), 257–83, exemplifying a historic case of a Jewish-Mossad tie (while questioning its full significance); Csaba Békés and Dániel Vékony, ‘Unfulfilled Promised Lands: Missed Potentials in Relations between Hungary and the Countries of the Middle East, 1955–75’, in Philip E. Muehlenbeck and Natalia Telepneva, eds., Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World: Aid and Influence in the Cold War (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018), 280; Mateja Režek, ‘Jugoslavija in nastanek Izraela: delitev Palestine in ilegalno preseljevanje Judov, 1945–1948’ [Yugoslavia and the Establishment of Israel: Partition of Palestine and Jewish Migration, 1945–1948], Acta Histriae, 21, 3 (2013), 361–76; Jeremy Sharon, ‘Breslov Seeking 6,000 Pilgrims for Uman’, The Jerusalem Post, 07 Sept. 2020. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/breslov-seeking-6000-pilgrims-for-uman-641307 (accessed 11 Dec. 2020.) See also Mateja Režek, ‘Jugoslovansko-izraelsko tajno sodelovanje v senci prve arabsko-izraelske vojne in spora z Informbirojem, 1948−1953’ [Yugoslav-Israeli Secret Cooperation in the Shadow of the First Arab-Israeli War and the Cominform Conflict, 1948–1953], Acta Histriae, 21, 4 (2013), 825−38, on intelligence cooperation; and Aleksandar Životić, Jugoslavija i Suecka kriza: 1956–1957 (Belgrade: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, 2008), who shows how Yugoslav Muslims resident in Egypt since before the Second World War played a role in linking the Yugoslav and Egyptian governments by the mid-1950s.

55 Tareq Ismael, The Communist Movement in the Arab World (London: Routledge, 2005). Eastern European governments had not been very deeply involved with Palestine or, for that matter, with Arab countries. See e.g. Krisztián Komár, ‘Hungarian-Egyptian Interwar Relations’, Mediterrán Tanulmányok, 12 (2003), 75–83; C. Botoran, ‘Sur l'histoire des relations roumano-égyptiennes entre les deux guerres mondiales (1919–1939)’, Romano-Arabica, 1 (1974), 21−35.

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