Religion and politics in the making of American Near East policy, 1918-1922

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2005-06-01

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Boztemur, Recep

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This study deals basically with the combination of religion and politics in American foreign policy in the Near East in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. The diplomatic activities regarding the protection of American religious, educational, philanthropic institutions, the safety of American interests and missionary activities and the safeguarding of a future for the Ottoman Armenians are examined in two parts: the first dealing with the spread of Protestant missionary activities in the Ottoman Empire, and the second, coping with the US political struggle for protecting American political, religious and commercial interests during the Paris Peace Conference through an analysis of diplomatic correspondence in the US archives

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Religion, Politics, American foreign policy, the Near East, Diplomatic correspondence, Ottoman Americans, First World War

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56023

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JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGIES

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Department of History, Article

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R. Boztemur, “Religion and politics in the making of American Near East policy, 1918-1922,” JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGIES, pp. 45–59, 2005, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56023.