Autonomous Provinces and the Problem of ‘Semi-Sovereignty’ in European International Law

Genell, Aimee M.

doi:10.1080/19448953.2016.1196041

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“…40 Long-standing polities like the Ottoman Empire were confronted by problems when their definitions of territoriality did not wholly fit into European imperial norms. 41 Settler colonial societies like Australia, Canada, or the United States embarked upon new forms of dispossessing indigenous peoples, for example, through creating reservation systems, violating previous treaties, ignoring Aboriginal land titles, and outlawing social and economic practices (like potlatch ceremonies banned from 1885 to 1951 in Canada).…”

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Negotiating Sovereignty in German History—Historiographical Challenges

Graf

Tworek

2022

Cent Eur Hist

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This article introduces a special issue on the politics of sovereignty in German history. Historical work provides an important corrective to understand the current discursive resurgence of sovereignty. Historians (and other scholars) should treat sovereignty not as a factual description of the world, but rather analyze it as a rhetorical claim to assert power in territorial, political, economic, legal, and cultural disputes. Much of the power of sovereignty lies in the power to define its boundaries, whether geographical or conceptual. German history offers a particularly fruitful route to historicize the concept, as Germany is arguably both a paradigmatic and a special case in the history of sovereignty. From late-nineteenth-century colonialism to contemporary disputes around gambling restrictions, German discourse on sovereignty has intertwined with and challenged international understandings of sovereignty together with neighboring concepts, such as independence, autonomy, supreme authority, and control. In the twentieth century, perhaps no country experienced stronger affirmations of both sovereignty and the necessity to integrate into inter- and supranational structures than the country at the center of the two world wars and subsequently divided during the Cold War.

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Section: Histories Of Sovereigntymentioning

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Negotiating Sovereignty in German History—Historiographical Challenges

Graf

Tworek

2022

Cent Eur Hist

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“…36, 39–40). However, by the end of the First World War, Ottoman legal experts, like many of their European counterparts, “… viewed Great‐Power‐imposed autonomous administration as a derogation of sovereignty and a stepping‐stone to independence” (Genell, 2016, p. 545).…”

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Bringing the imperial back in: Reconsidering governance in the late Ottoman Empire, 1839–1923 (Part II)

Kuehn

2021

History Compass

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This is the second of two connected articles that survey recent trends in the historical scholarship of Ottoman imperial governance from the beginning of the Tanzimat state building efforts in the 1830s to the end of empire in the early 1920s. In both articles, I examine how historians have answered the question of what was imperial about the ways in which the Ottoman Empire was governed during this period. Throughout this two‐part series, I argue that an approach that pays attention to the capacity to govern, as Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper put it, “different people differently” through a broad repertoire of rule balancing this politics of difference with the politics of incorporation, is more conducive to bringing out the complexities of late Ottoman governance than teleological assumptions that consider the empire during this period on a linear path towards the nation state. Part I demonstrated that starting from the 1990s, scholarship on the empire's peripheries in Transjordan, Mount Lebanon, Yemen, and Albania was instrumental in reframing the study of late Ottoman governance by taking its imperial dimensions seriously. In Part II, I will continue this line of inquiry by reviewing pioneering studies that located the politics of difference and incorporation across the empire and not just in its peripheral regions. Here, I will also discuss a body of innovative scholarship that uses the analytical lenses of governmentality, techno‐politics, and International Law to shed light on the novel material, logistical, and legal capacities developed by the Ottoman state especially during the Hamidian period. In the final section, I will turn to studies that suggest that practices of Ottoman imperial governance remained relevant for the running of some of the empire's successor states.

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“…This law was the inter-imperial legal architecture of what the Ottomans called a 'distinguished province' in Mount Lebanon. 30 Similarly, the Great Powers developed a statut organique for Ottoman Rumelia, by the terms of the Berlin treaty of 1876. 31 The Ottoman ambassador also used the term in an 1881 letter to the French Foreign Minister to characterize what is today called the first Tunisian 'constitution'.…”

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From administrative to political order? Global legal history, the organic law, and the constitution of mandate Syria, 1925–1930

Mestyan

2021

Journal of Global History

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This article explores the making of the State of Syria after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. I argue that an event-based approach in global legal history offers a useful perspective for studying the transition from imperial to international and national systems. Drawing on new archival research in France and Saudi Arabia, I focus upon the creation of the 1928 Syrian constitution in the League’s mandate to show the administrative framework of political orders. First, I describe the French administrative logic through the story of the international ‘organic law’. Second, I describe the way the organic law necessitated the Syrian political constitution. The constrained constitutional process resulted in a clash and a compromise about a Muslim president between secularist republicans and exiled, Saudi-related Muslim monarchists. Global history can profit from this approach by rethinking decolonization as administrative reorganization and by focusing on dissenting, non-state actors in state-making.

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Autonomous Provinces and the Problem of ‘Semi-Sovereignty’ in European International Law

Cited by 56 publications

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Negotiating Sovereignty in German History—Historiographical Challenges

Negotiating Sovereignty in German History—Historiographical Challenges

Bringing the imperial back in: Reconsidering governance in the late Ottoman Empire, 1839–1923 (Part II)

From administrative to political order? Global legal history, the organic law, and the constitution of mandate Syria, 1925–1930

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