The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (PDF/EPUB Version)

The opening chapters of the book examine the relationship between the great power politics of the ‘eastern question’ from 1774, the narrower politics of the ‘Armenian question’ from the mid-nineteenth century, and the internal Ottoman questions of reforming the complex social and ethnic order under intense external pressure. Later chapters include detailed case studies of the role of Imperial Germany during the First World War (reaching conclusions markedly different to the prevailing orthodoxy
of German complicity in the genocide); the wartime Entente and then the uncomfortable postwar Anglo-French axis; and American political interest in the Middle East in the interwar period which led to a policy of refusing to recognize the genocide. The book concludes by explaining the ongoing
international denial of the genocide as an extension of the historical ‘Armenian question’, with many of the same considerations governing modern European-American-Turkish interaction as existed prior to the First World War.