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Nevzat Uyanık is an author and researcher on global political history of the last century, with a particular interest in the Near East.
Uyanik seeks to contextualize the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the interplay between US and British interests regarding the Armenians. The author outlines the changing attitudes of the US government about assuming a mandate over Armenia/Eastern Anatolia. Uyanik argues that the missionary lobby in the US was very influential in setting policy that would be favorable to the Christian Peoples of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, the US kept the Entente at armaEURO (TM)s length about declaring war on the Ottoman Empire, in part to protect missionaries. This provided an interesting perspective on the interplay between the British and the Americans. British realpolitik and US idealism clashed and, at times, agreed over the manner in which to shape the postwar Middle East. Grounded in British and US archival material, including the personal papers of numerous British and US officials, and buttressed by English and Turkish secondary sources, the work is well documented. This thought-provoking argument provides context for the Armenian issue in the post WWI context. Summing up: Highly recommended' J. Tallon, Lewis University, in CHOICE
