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Arming the Sultan

German Arms Trade and Personal Diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire Before World War I

Naci Yorulmaz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2021
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4229-8 (ISBN)

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International Arms Trade has always been a powerful and multi-functional constituent of world politics and international diplomacy. Sending military advisors abroad and promoting arms sales, each legitimizing and supporting the other, became indispensable tools of alliance-making starting from the eve of the First World War until today. To the German Empire, as a relative latecomer to imperialistic rivalry in the struggle for colonies around the word in the late 19th century, arms exports performed a decisive service in stimulating and strengthening the German military-based expansionist economic foreign policy and provided effective tools to create new alliances around the globe. Therefore, from the outset, the German armament firms' marketing and sales operations to the global arms market but especially to the Ottoman Empire, under the rule of Sultan Abdülhamid II, were openly and strongly supported by Kaiser Wilhelm II, Bismarck and the other decision-makers in German Foreign Policy.
Based on extensive multinational archival research in Germany, Turkey, Britain and the United States, Arming the Sultan explores the decisive impact of arms exports on the formation and stimulation of Germany's expansionist foreign economic policy towards the Ottoman Empire. Making an important contribution to current scholarship on the political economy of the international arms trade, Yorulmaz’s innovative book Arming the Sultan reveals that arms exports, specifically under the shadow of personal diplomacy, proved to be an indispensable and integral part of Germany's foreign economic policy during the period leading up to WW1.

Naci Yorulmaz is Research Scholar at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. He holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham.

Notes on Usage i
Table of Contents ii
List of Tables iv
List of Figures vi
List of Maps and Images vi
List of Abbreviations vii

Introduction

Chapter I: The German Expansionism and the Political and Economic Foundation of the German Style of War Business
in the Ottoman Empire (1880-1898)

Bismarck and His Ottoman Policy: The First Step towards

Peaceful Penetration

Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Origin of His Ottoman Policy

Kaiser Wilhelm II’s First Orientreise in 1889 and its

Consequences (1889)

Chapter II: German Military Advisers: Businessmen in Uniform

A Vital Link for the Export Dependent Armaments Industry

Trojan horse for German Arms Industry: The First German Military Mission in the Ottoman Empire (1882-1885)
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz Pasha (1843-1916): A Hero for Everyone
Chapter III: Arms Orders and Contracts:

The First Fruits of Personal Diplomacy

Coastal Fortification with Krupp Guns in 1885/1886

The Mauser Operations: Professional Teamwork
Chapter IV: Kaiser Wilhelm II and

The Political Economy of Personal Diplomacy (1898-1914)

Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Second Orientreise in 1898 as Multi-dimensional Personal Diplomacy
The Concrete Outcomes of the Kaiser’s Second Orientreise: Some Critical Concessions
Kaiser Wilhelm II and His Contribution to the German Style of War Business
Chapter V: Sultan Abdülhamid II and His Bureaucrats (1876-1914)

Sultan Abdülhamid II and the Arms Trade in the Shadow of Personal Trust
The Ottoman Bureaucrats: Personal Ties with the Arms Makers

The Ottoman Inspection and Control Commission in Germany: Inspectors or Friends?
Chapter VI: The Power Shift and its Consequences (1908-1914)

The First Episode: The Old Regime and The Old Friend (1908-1909)

The Second Episode: The New Regime and The Old Friend (1909-1914)

Conclusion

Endnotes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7556-4229-5 / 0755642295
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4229-8 / 9780755642298
Zustand	Neuware