Economics and Ethics: How WWI in the Middle East Changed U.S. Policy Towards the Region

The long Great War in the Ottoman lands (1911-1923) brought about a major shift in US relations with the Middle East. Despite persuading President Woodrow Wilson to remain at peace with the Ottoman Empire during the war, the American Christian missionary lobby could not persuade the Harding Administration to support the establishment of an Armenian state in eastern Anatolia. Business interests in the new countries and mandates of the region led to a prioritization of commercial approach to the region that remains an important element of U.S. policy today.

Join Dr. Andrew Patrick – author, professor and co-expert of The Lausanne Project – for a lecture examining the evolution of U.S. relations with the Ottoman lands, culminating in the bilateral treaty signed with Türkiye at Lausanne on Aug. 6, 1923.

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