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Publication Metadata only Diplomacy within the security framework in Turkey and Romania during the Interwar Period(Brill Academic Publishers, 2024) Department of History; Emek, Berk; Barlas, Dilek; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis article aims to highlight shifting diplomatic positions in Turkey and Romania and their stances towards the League of Nations collective security network during the interwar period. It takes a comparative approach to demonstrate the diplomatic activity and strategic decision-making mechanism employed by two strategically important Balkan and Black Sea countries vis-à-vis the fragile international system from the 1920s onwards. The rising threat of revisionism and declining belief in the League’s sanctioning power gradually led these countries to set their differences in foreign policy aside and strengthened the idea of joint regional action in the 1930s. Supported by primary sources from different archives, this comparative study proposes a new outlook, by demonstrating the contribution made by the notions of external threat and common aggressor to changing foreign policy perspectives in both countries. © 2024 Brill Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.Publication Metadata only The fascist temptation: British and Italian imperial entanglements in the Eastern Mediterranean(Cambridge University Press, 2024) Department of History; Rappas, Alexis; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis article reveals how, in the interwar period, British colonial authorities in Cyprus borrowed from the combination of political authoritarianism and economic development characterising Italian rule in the neighbouring Dodecanese, as both a solution to Greek irredentism and an administration suitable to ‘Mediterranean populations’. British authorities shunned, nonetheless, the chronopolitics and biopolitics buttressing fascist governance, which aimed at the political and cultural assimilation of Dodecanesians into the Italian national community. In conversation with the literature on imperial formations, the article therefore highlights the forms and limitations of the circulation of administrative practices and ideas across European colonial boundaries.Publication Metadata only Ethno-religious division of labour in urban economie s of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century(Berghahn Books, 2020) Güvenç, Murat; Department of History; Kabadayı, Mustafa Erdem; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 33267N/APublication Metadata only Between lames Bond and losif Stalin(Slavica Publishers, 2020) Department of History; Amar, Tarık Youssef Cyril; Other; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 294014Publication Metadata only The small, the big, and the ugly: persistent challenges of thinking about lviv's Ukrainization(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020) Department of History; Amar, Tarık Youssef Cyril; Other; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 294014Publication Metadata only The historiography of dreaming in medieval Byzantium(Ashgate Publishing, 2014) N/A; Department of History; Magdalino, Paul; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Great catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the shadow of genocide(Cambridge Univ Press, 2018) Department of History; Polatel, Mehmet; Researcher; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/APublication Metadata only Astrology(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017) N/A; Department of History; Magdalino, Paul; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThe inclusion of a chapter on astrology in an intellectual history of Byzantium needs some justification. Astrology is widely perceived by intellectuals today, and especially by exact scientists, as a mindless superstition, and plenty of support for dismissing it as unscientific can be found in ancient and medieval literature too. Most Byzantine statements on astrology by non-astrologers are derisive as well as critical, perhaps the most memorable and eloquent being Niketas Choniates’ reports of the consistently wrong astrological predictions in which the emperor Manuel I Komnenos (1143-1180) naively believed, and on which he persistently based his policies. Yet Manuel wrote a treatise in Defense of Astrology, and whatever its intellectual merits, this treatise was at least an intellectual exercise. Astrology had an enduring appeal at all levels of society because it used scientific methods and could be explained according to accepted scientific theories. It was impossible to practice astrology without a basic knowledge of astronomy; apart from the construction and correction of calendars, astrology was the only practical use to which the study of astronomy could be put. The great second-century synthesizer of ancient astronomy, Ptolemy, assumed that the two went together and, in addition to his astronomical works, produced a treatise on astrology, the Tetrabiblos. The calculation of horoscopes depended on the exact mapping of the heavens at a given moment with arithmetical and geometrical precision; astrologers were frequently referred to as “mathematicians” (mathematikoi). The interpretation of a horoscope was a game of skill and judgment, which involved both the application of a rigorous logic and the consideration of many variables. It drew on the entire range of cosmological theories produced by the religious and philosophical systems of antiquity. It originated in Babylonian and, to a lesser extent, Egyptian religion, and its basic doctrine of planetary influences was linked to the identification of the planets with the Olympian gods Hermes (Mercury), Aphrodite (Venus), Artemis (Diana - the Moon), Apollo (the Sun), Ares (Mars), Zeus (Jupiter), and Kronos (Saturn). It was based on the Stoic theory of cosmic sympathy, the idea that all the parts of the universe were interconnected and danced to the same tune. It shared the Pythagorean obsession with number symbolism and adopted Aristotle’s theory of matter.Publication Metadata only Russian and soviet diplomacy, 1900-39(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013) Department of History; McMeekin, Sean; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesPublication Metadata only The end of Byzantium(The University of Chicago Press, 2012) N/A; Department of History; Magdalino, Paul; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/A