Tez Türü: Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: University of London - The London School of Economics and Political Science, Uluslararası Tarih (International History), İngiltere
Tez Danışmanı: Dominic C. B. Lieven
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2016
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
Desteklendiği Program: Diğer
Özet:
This dissertation will analyse the grand strategy of the Russian empire against
its southern rivals, namely the Ottoman empire and Iran, in the Caucasus, between
1821 and 1833. This research is interested in explaining how the Russian imperial
machine devised and executed successful strategies to use its relative superiority over
the Ottomans and the Qājārs and secure domination of the region. Russian success
needs, however, to be understood within a broader context that also takes in Ottoman
and Iranian policy-making and perspectives, and is informed by a comparative sense
of the strengths and weaknesses of all three imperial regimes. In this thesis, the
question of why Russia was more successful than the Ottoman state and Iran in the
Caucasus between 1821 and 1833 is explained in three main ways: the first and most
important factor in this process was the well-functioning fiscal-military machine of
the Russian empire; the second factor was the diplomatic and military skill of the
Russian leadership which helped to avert any effective political and military alliance
between the Ottoman empire and Iran and defeated its rivals in two separate and
successive wars; the last main factor in Russian success was its geopolitically
superior position.