The League of Nations and the post-Ottoman recolonization of the Nile Valley: The imperial Matryoshka of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1922–1924

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Giorgio Potì
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Abstract This article addresses the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over Sudan following the Ottoman defeat in World War One and Cairo’s 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’s and London’s 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.
国际联盟与后奥斯曼帝国对尼罗河流域的重新殖民:英埃苏丹帝国的马特里什卡,1922–1924
摘要本文论述了奥斯曼帝国在第一次世界大战中战败和1922年开罗名义上独立后,英埃两国在苏丹问题上的争端。根据外交部文件、国际联盟档案、埃及议会记录和当代学术判例,它追溯了英国苏丹总督遇刺后,埃及启动《公约》解决机制的失败尝试。与此同时,这篇文章调查了英国面临国际仲裁的准备情况,包括对联盟在苏丹问题上授权的假设请求。通过开罗和伦敦的看法,我们可以了解日内瓦组织在其有限的成员和机构之外的全球影响力。尽管联盟没有采取任何措施,但其干预的可能性引发了相互竞争的法律争论,以及埃及和苏丹自决的对立言论。因此,本文揭示了第二次世界大战前的重新殖民过程。英国和埃及帝国在尼罗河流域的项目冲突警告历史学家,不要把帝国终结的目的论强加在两次世界大战之间非殖民化的根源上。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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