Sharing the Burden
The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 November 2019
- ISBN 9780190618605
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 236x163x27 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 halftones 0
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Short description:
Sharing the Burden explores the American response to the unprecedented massacre of over one million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a window onto the US rise to world power, its evolving relationship with Britain, and the development of ideas on global order at the turn of the twentieth century. In doing so, it provides a new perspective on US foreign relations, particularly during the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the origins of the League of Nations, the development of Anglo-American relations, the shaping of the post-Ottoman Near East and the debate on the role of humanitarian intervention in American diplomacy.
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The destruction of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire was an unprecedented tragedy. Even amidst the horrors of the First World War, Theodore Roosevelt insisted that it was the greatest crime of the conflict. The wartime mass killing of approximately one million Armenian Christians was the culmination of a series of massacres that Winston Churchill would later recall had roused publics on both sides of the Atlantic and inspired fervent appeals to save the Armenians.
Sharing the Burden explains how the Armenian struggle for survival became so entangled with the debate over the international role of the United States as it rose to world power status in the early twentieth century. In doing so, Charlie Laderman provides a fresh perspective on the role of humanitarian intervention in US foreign policy, Anglo-American relations, and the emergence of a new world order after World War I. The United States' responsibility to protect the Armenians was a central preoccupation of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both American and British leaders proposed an Anglo-American alliance to take joint responsibilities for the Middle East and envisioned a US intervention to secure an independent Armenia as key to the new League of Nations. The Armenian question illustrates how policymakers, missionaries, and the public grappled for the first time with atrocities on this scale. It also reveals the values that animated American society during this pivotal period in the nation's foreign relations.
Deepening understanding of the Anglo-American special relationship and its role in reforming global order, Sharing the Burden illuminates the possibilities, limitations, and continued dilemmas of humanitarian intervention in international politics.
This extraordinary and powerful book on the Armenian question addresses a long neglected issue, one perceived at the time as being of great significance to US foreign policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on massive archival research in US, British, French, and Armenian primary and secondary sources, this is a systematic, judicious, and elegantly presented volume. ... Besides excavating the details of the specific questions and issues arising from the case of Armenia, Laderman's comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates the implications for broader debates over the scope and limits of the global US role.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Armenian Question
Chapter 1: The Origins of a Solution
Chapter 2: The Rooseveltian Solution
Chapter 3: The Missionary Solution
Chapter 4: The Wilsonian Solution
Chapter 5: The American Solution
Chapter 6: Dissolution
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
