2015 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 September 2015 Germany’s Failed Pan-Islamic Propaganda Campaign of 1914-1918 Tilman Luedke · September 2015 The strategic and economic situation of Germany at the outbreak of war was, in fact, rather bleak. Mainly for fault of its own, the country would have to face a two-front war. Its allies – Austria-Hungary and Italy — were not exactly instilling much confidence. It thus came as no surprise that (…) June 2015 British Anxiety about Jihad in the Middle East Donald M. McKale · June 2015 Historiography on World War I in the Middle East has emphasized overwhelmingly Britain’s role in encouraging the Arab revolt in 1916 against Turkey and in establishing the Allies’ controversial peace settlements. T.E. Lawrence, the principal British figure in the Arab revolt, asserted in the (…) March 2015 The Armenian Question and the Turkish-German Alliance (1913-1914) Thomas Schmutz · March 2015 This article examines the German role concerning the reform question in Eastern Anatolia in 1913 and 1914, in particular to resolve the Armenian issue. It sheds new light on the degree of involvement of Germany in the Ottoman Empire before the war. One hundred years after the beginning of the (…) February 2015 The Jewish Yishuv in Ottoman Palestine Yuval Ben-Bassat · February 2015 Even before the birth of political Zionism and then from 1882, the first wave of Jewish immigration settled in Palestine. On the eve of 1914, Jews accounted for 80 000, namely about 10% of the local population. Was it worth sparing them or considering them as representatives of the Allies? The (…)