About this book

This book explores the creation and legacy of the Treaty of Lausanne, which marked the end of the First World War in the Near East, as well as the end of the old Eastern Question. It deals with the role, political and legal, of the Treaty in the international system, its effects on the national policies of the Great Powers and of regional States, the impact of economic issues and oil diplomacy, along with its social repercussions in the compulsory exchange of Greek and Turkish populations.

The book brings together historians, political scientists, experts on international relations, and scholars of international law to cast new light on the shaping of the contemporary Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, and the interaction between the regional and the global. It is valuable resource for academics and practitioners focused on all these areas of study.

Contents

1 Introduction 1
Maria Gavouneli

Part I The Lausanne Treaty: The Political and Institutional Framework

2 The Treaty of Lausanne and the New International Legitimacy 7
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

3 An Assessment on the Treaty of Lausanne in Its 100^th Year: An Analysis of the Statistical Data Concerning Cases Related to the Treaty of Lausanne Filed Before the Turkish Constitutional Court 23
Esra Ünal

4 Reconsidering the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange as a Legal Paradigm of Constituent Violence 51
Konstantinos Tsitselikis

5 A Legacy of Lausanne: Conflicting Perceptions on the Status of Eastern Aegean Islands 69
Yücel Acer

6 The Treaty of Lausanne: Peace Through Realism and Not the Rule of Law 91
Constantine Antonopoulos

Part II The Great Powers, The International System and the Treaty of Lausanne

7 Great Powers for ‘Global’ Peace and Order 99
Atsuko Kanehara

8 Lausanne, the Great Powers and the Eastern Question 115
Odile Moreau

9 Priorities and Aims of the Great Powers at the Lausanne Conference 131
Manolis Koumas

10 Italy, Greece, and Near Eastern Affairs from Sèvres to Lausanne 145
Antonis Klapsis

11 Oil and the Lausanne Conference 161
Jonathan Conlin

Part III Turkey, Greece and the Treaty of Lausanne

12 An Account of Myths, Misconceptions and Misrepresentations of the Treaty of Lausanne

in Turkey 181
Serhat Güvenç

13 Bitter Struggle for Peace: London versus Ankara at the Lausanne Negotiations 1922–1923 197
Sevtap Demirci

14 Τhe Treaty of Lausanne and Turkey’s Middle East Policy in the Interwar Period 211
John Sakkas

15 The Treaty of Lausanne as a Milestone in Greek-Turkish Strategic Relations 225
Ioannis N. Grigoriadis

16 The Refugees in Greek Macedonia Between the Wars: Aspects of Demographic Engineering and their Political, Social, and Economic Implications 237
Iakovos D. Michailidis

17 After 1923: The Long-standing Crisis of Democratization in Greece 245
Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos

Part IV The significance of the Treaty Today

18 The Lausanne Conference in the Context of European Peacemaking Since the Treaties of Westphalia 261
Ahmet O. Evin

19 The Blue Homeland in the Turkish Grand National Assembly Debates 277
Zuhal Mert Uzuner

20 How to Resolve the Greek-Turkish Conundrum 293
Panagiotis C. Ioakimidis

21 Challenging the Lausanne Legacy: European Integration and the Evolution of the Greek-Turkish

Relationship 309
Emmanuel Comte

22 Taking Stock of the ‘Lausanne Legacy’: What Future for Greek-Turkish Relations? 325
Panayotis Tsakonas

Index 339