Arming the Sultan : German arms trade and personal diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire before World War I
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Arming the Sultan : German arms trade and personal diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire before World War I
（Library of Ottoman studies, 43）
I.B. Tauris, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-341) and index
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Description
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 Abdulhamid 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.
Table of Contents
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 Abdulhamid II and His Bureaucrats (1876-1914)
Sultan Abdulhamid 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
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