The book comes from a European Research Council funded project, “Securing Europe, Fighting Its Enemies,” led by my brilliant Utrecht colleague Beatrice de Graaf. The project looked into the emergence of a European security culture after the 1815 Congress of Vie..
Ozan Ozavci
Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of History at Utrecht University and co-convenor of the Lausanne Project and the Security History Network. His publications include Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 (Oxford, 2021) and Intellectual Origins of the Republic: Ahmet Ağaoğlu and the Genealogy of Liberalism in Turkey (Brill, 2015). He is currently completing his third monograph on the two Istanbul embassies of the Scottish diplomat Sir Robert Liston, and co-editing a volume on the history of imperial security in the nineteenth century, as well as another on the establishment of a new imperial order in the Middle East after the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.