Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires: A Comparative Approach (Europe’s Legacy in the Modern World) - Hardcover

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Brisku, Adrian

 
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Throughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a similar vision for imperial state renewal, with the goal of avoiding revolution, decline and isolation within Europe. Adrian Brisku explores how this path of renewal and reform manifested itself: forging new laws and institutions, opening up the economy to the outside world, and entering the European political community of imperial states.

Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires tackles the dilemma faced by both empires, namely how to bring about meaningful change without undermining the legal, political and economic status quo. The book offers a unique comparison of Ottoman and Russian politics of reform and their connection to the wider European politico-economic space.

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About the Authors

Adrian Brisku is Associate Professor in Modern History at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is the author of Bittersweet Europe (2013) and Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires (2017).

Martti Koskenniemi is Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki, Hauser Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University and Director of the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, USA.

Annabel Brett is Professor of Political Thought and History and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Changes of State: Nature and the limits of the city in early modern natural law (2011) and Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual rights in later scholastic thought (1997). She is also the editor and translator of Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace (2005).

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
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