Deutsche Orientpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg

The reforms in the Ottoman eastern provinces were among the most important yet least studied issues in international politics on the eve of the First World War. Thomas Schmutz examines the Reform Agreement of 8 February 1914, Germany’s role in the international negotiations, and the interplay of the Armenian Question, Eastern politics, European power politics, and Russo-German rivalry. Drawing on German and French archival sources, the study reconstructs the emergence of a promising reform project whose collapse, brought about by war and the Armenian Genocide, offers new perspectives on the prehistory of the great European catastrophe of the twentieth century.