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Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide de Thomas de Waal

Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

Autor Thomas de Waal
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 mar 2015

Relevanța lucrării Great Catastrophe pentru studiile de securitate, relații internaționale și istorie modernă este incontestabilă, oferind o bază documentară esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care atrocitățile istorice modelează politicile externe actuale. În acest volum publicat de Oxford University Press, Thomas de Waal nu se limitează la relatarea evenimentelor tragice din 1915-1916, ci investighează „politica genocidului” și modul în care narațiunile divergente au alimentat tensiuni diplomatice timp de un secol. Subliniem capacitatea autorului de a naviga printre tabuurile Turciei moderne și dificultățile diasporei, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care memoria colectivă este construită și instrumentalizată.

Notăm cu interes structura narativă care îmbină rigoarea academică a surselor de arhivă cu sensibilitatea reportajului de teren. Această abordare permite cititorului să înțeleagă nu doar cifrele dezastrului, ci și renașterea surprinzătoare a identității armene în rândul populației din Turcia actuală. Putem afirma că lucrarea acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum After the Ottomans de Hans-Lukas Kieser, însă Thomas de Waal adoptă o perspectivă mult mai centrată pe prezent și pe dinamica politică post-Război Rece, spre deosebire de analiza lui Kieser axată pe moștenirea imediată a prăbușirii imperiului. De asemenea, în timp ce A Question of Genocide este o lucrare colectivă de reconstrucție istorică, volumul de față este o analiză unitară a consecințelor sociopolitice actuale.

Această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție firească în opera lui Thomas de Waal. Dacă în The Caucasus autorul oferea un ghid introductiv asupra regiunii, iar în Beyond Frozen Conflict analiza instabilitatea post-sovietică, Great Catastrophe pătrunde adânc în substratul istoric al acestor tensiuni, demonstrând că disputele din Nagorno-Karabah sau blocajele diplomatice de la Ankara nu pot fi înțelese fără trauma fondatoare a anului 1915.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199350698
ISBN-10: 0199350698
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru specialiștii în geopolitică și istoria Orientului Mijlociu, oferind o analiză lucidă a modului în care traumele istorice dictează politica externă de astăzi. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a relațiilor armeano-turce, dincolo de propaganda oficială, primind un instrument critic pentru a evalua conflictele contemporane din Caucaz și procesele de reconciliere eșuate între cele două națiuni.

Despre autor

Thomas de Waal este un reputat jurnalist și cercetător, expert în regiunea Caucazului și în conflictele din spațiul est-european. Este recunoscut la nivel internațional pentru analizele sale echilibrate privind Armenia și Azerbaidjan, fiind autorul unor lucrări de referință precum The Caucasus. În prezent, este cercetător senior la Carnegie Europe, unde se concentrează pe relațiile complexe dintre Rusia, Turcia și statele din Caucazul de Sud. Expertiza sa pe teren și accesul la surse diverse îi permit să scrie despre subiecte sensibile cu o obiectivitate apreciată atât în mediul academic, cât și în cel diplomatic.

Descriere

The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was a brutal mass crime that prefigured other genocides in the 20th century. By various estimates, more than a million Armenians were killed and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 has not been consigned to history. It is a live and divisive political issue that mobilizes Armenians across the world, touches the identity and politics of modern Turkey, and has consumed the attention of U.S. politicians for years. In Great Catastrophe, the eminent scholar and reporter Thomas de Waal looks at the changing narratives and politics of the Armenian Genocide and tells the story of recent efforts by courageous Armenians, Kurds, and Turks to come to terms with the disaster as Turkey enters a new post-Kemalist era. The story of what happened to the Armenians in 1915-16 is well-known. Here we are told the much less well-known story of what happened to Armenians, Kurds, and Turks in its aftermath. First Armenians were divided between the Soviet Union and a worldwide diaspora, with different generations and communities of Armenians constructing new identities, while bitter intra-Armenian quarrels sometimes broke out into violence. In Turkey, the Armenian issue was initially forgotten and suppressed, only to return to the political agenda in the context of the Cold War, an outbreak of Armenian terrorism in the 1970s and the growth of modern "identity politics" in the age of genocide-consciousness. In the last decade, Turkey has begun to confront its taboos and finally face up to the Armenian issue. New, more sophisticated histories are being written of the deportations of 1915, now with the collaboration of Turkish scholars. In Turkey itself there has been an astonishing revival of oral history, with tens of thousands of people coming out of the shadows to reveal a long-suppressed Armenian identity. However, a normalization process between the Armenian and Turkish states broke down in 2010.Drawing on archival sources, reportage and moving personal stories, de Waal tells the full story of Armenian-Turkish relations since the Genocide in all its extraordinary twists and turns. He strips away the propaganda to look both at the realities of a terrible historical crime and also the divisive "politics of genocide" it produced. The book throws light not only on our understanding of Armenian-Turkish relations but also of how mass atrocities and historical tragedies shape contemporary politics.

Recenzii

Great Catastrophe is an excellent book, remarkable notably for its in-depth discussion of the wisdom of formal acknowledgements, by law or otherwise, of the genocide. De Waal, by and large, ends up against the legal recognition of genocide, which he believes does not serve either historical truth or reconciliation. At the same time, he is critical of the stubborn denial of the genocide by Turkish officialdom: that final part of the book is an important contribution to the ongoing debate on memory and its mutual acknowledgement in relations among countries.
Thomas de Waal writes an excellent introduction to the subject, concentrating on how the post-genocide era has seen changes of attitude towards that tragedy.
[An] admirably fair-minded new book... [Great Catastrophe] admirably demonstrates how contestations over a history of atrocity continue to shape - and distort - today's politics.
Measured and meticulous.
de Waal's biggest contribution is his overview of the interlocking phases of Turkish and Armenian history after 1915. Trenchant and colourful anecdotes abound, along with some surprising facts.
[Offers] painful reading, compelling for the general reader, cathartic for Armenian and Turk alike.
[An] excellent study.
Sensitively judged - conversant in all the arguments, sympathetic to all perspectives, and full of interviews. It includes plenty of interest to both specialists and non-specialists.
De Waal is an engaging narrator
De Waal brings a much needed perspective to highly contested subject matter, providing a vivid sense of inter-connectedness of the histories and experiences of Armenians, Turks, Kurds and other minorities inhabiting the Ottoman/Russian borderlands.
What makes the book an invaluable contribution to the debate is his description of the long-term impact these traumatic events have had on Turks but especially on Armenians, and his effort to go beyond the question that has dominated the discussion for so long now: Should these events be labeled as genocide or not?
This magnificent book is the ideal introduction to a difficult subject. Historically rigorous but also full of compassion, it will educate the expert as well as the curious beginner. Highly recommended for Turks, Armenians, and everyone else.
Finely researched and elegantly written, Tom de Waal's historical travelogue is an empathetic guide to how Armenians and Turks can ease the century of pain and conflict that succeeded the genocidal Ottoman destruction of the Armenian presence in Anatolia in 1915.
Great Catastrophe is a frank, honest, humane effort to understand the events surrounding the Armenian Genocide and its aftermath. Thomas de Waal writes with empathy and respect for the various contending narratives while avoiding an equivocating 'balance' that dishonors the events and the victims themselves. Meticulously researched and scrupulously fair, it attempts to comprehend and recount for a broad audience the complexity and pain of the MedZ Yeghern in the hope that average Turks and Armenians might continue the process of recognition, repentance and reconciliation that will allow them both to heal and be redeemed.

Notă biografică

Thomas de Waal is a writer and scholar on the Caucasus and Black Sea region and currently Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of three books, including The Caucasus: An Introduction. From 1991 to 2000, de Waal worked as a newspaper journalist in Moscow and for the BBC World Service in London.