Professor Giorgio Poti (International Relations & Global Politics program) recently published an article in the聽Journal of Global History聽that will soon be printed as part of a special issue on International organizations and decolonization.
The Journal of Global History,聽according to the most recent Journal Citation reports, is the history journal with the highest impact factor worldwide.
Professor Poti's piece is titled 鈥楾he League of Nations and the Post-Ottoman Transition in the Nile Valley: The Imperial Matryoshka of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1922-1924鈥�. It stems from in Munich in 2019.
Abstract
"This article addresses the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over Sudan following the Ottoman defeat in World War One and Cairo鈥檚 nominal independence in 1922. Drawing from Foreign Office documents, League of Nations archives, Egyptian parliamentary records and contemporary academic jurisprudence, it traces the failed Egyptian attempt to activate the settlement mechanisms of the Covenant after the assassination of the British governor of Sudan. In parallel, the article investigates the British preparations to face international arbitration, including the hypothetical request for a League mandate over Sudan. Through Cairo鈥檚 and London鈥檚 perceptions, we can grasp the global reach of the Geneva organization beyond its limited membership and agency. Although the League undertook no measures, the possibility of its intervention triggered competing legal arguments, as well as rival discourses of Egyptian and Sudanese self-determination. Thus, this essay sheds light on a recolonization process pre-dating World War Two. The clash of British and Egyptian imperial projects in the Nile Valley warns historians against forcing a teleology of the end of empire on the interwar roots of decolonization."
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Biography
Professor Pot矛 is a modern historian with a background in international studies. His research revolves around the entangled processes of state- and empire-building in the Euro-Mediterranean area, and their interactions with the global political and legal order. Professor Pot矛 is currently completing a book manuscript examining the contestation and re-negotiation of British, French, Italian, and Spanish imperial rule in the Middle East in the early aftermath of World War One. In the meantime, he has presented his ongoing research at some twenty academic workshops and conferences throughout Europe, and his scholarship has appeared in leading academic journals.