Virginia H. Aksan and Ozan Ozavci sit down to record the very first podcast episode on Ottoman military history.
The Glancing Eye: Introducing the SHN
Erik de Lange introduces the Security History Network and explains the reason behind the design of the logo.
Dangerous Gifts by Ozan Ozavci
Ozan Ozavci offers the first genealogical analysis of western interventionism in the Levant whilst freeing the Eastern Question from the monopoly of Great Power politics
What happened to Mr Cutsi?
Ozan Ozavci reconstructs the story behind the first ‘humanitarian’ intervention in the Middle East, which involved the curious 'murder' of the Dutch Consul in Damascus.
The Ottoman Absence from the Battlefields of the Seven Years’ War by Virginia H. Aksan
This essay proposes several explanations for the Ottoman absence from the European battlefields, which include diplomatic neutrality, lack of military preparedness, and loss of control over provincial finances.
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