Ryan Gingeras
Biographic Data
| ID | 265269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Gingeras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gingeras |
| SIGNATURE | GINGERAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Naval Postgraduate School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Sons of Two Fatherlands
The article of record as published may be found at http://ejts.revues.org/index4424.html
An Empire Unredeemed
Ottoman rule ended without the consent of most Balkan, North African, Levantian, or Mesopotamian citizens. The establishment of post-Ottoman borders, states, and cultures took place in the wake of foreign conquest. The chapter explains how ending the Ottoman Empire was not necessarily a natural outcome of the First World War. Additionally, Mustafa Kemal/the National Assembly could have maintained the Ottoman mantle and preserved the notion of an …
American sea power in the contemporary security environment
This article assesses the relevance of US seapower in the contemporary security environment. This paper builds upon a rich literature on sea power, strategy, and maritime operations to assess recent factors and emerging geostrategic dynamics that are likely to affect American maritime strategy, while keeping sight of the principles that will endure regardless of shifting domestic and international politics. It places the application of sea power …
Sean McMeekin. The Ottoman Endgame
Sean McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923, follows a familiar path in introducing the significance of the First World War in the Middle East. Like other recent works surveying the Ottoman Empire’s collapse, the book treats the Great War as a crucible upon which the modern Middle East was forged. A clear understanding of the war and its outcomes, the author suggests, provides a necess…
Fall of the Sultanate
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East, a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning the early twentieth century brought the sultanate to an end. This book encompasses a full accounting of the international political, economic, and social forces that prompted this climactic event in the making of the mode…
Yücel Yanıkdağ. Healing the Nation
Istanbul Confidential
A long-standing, but often troubled, partnership binds the United States and the Republic of Turkey. Shared national security interests, first brought on by the onset of the Cold War, lies at the heart of this relationship. 1 As "the bulwark" of North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Middle Eastern defense against the Soviet Union, Washington, under both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, came to invest vast amounts of money and atte…
Poppy Politics
This paper surveys the history of American support for Iranian counter-narcotics policy between 1945 and 1989. In particular, it explores the general failings of Tehran's attempt to ban the domestic production and consumption of opium. The significance of this period is two-fold. First, this essay argues that American-backed efforts to combat the opium trade in Iran highlighted the detrimental effects narcotics had upon both state and society in …
A Question of Genocide
As we approach the hundredth anniversary of the First World War, historians continue to come to grips with the origins, progression and consequences of this epoch-defining conflict. If one turns to the Middle Eastern theatre, and surveys the repercussions of the war on the Ottoman Empire, a number of challenges and controversies beset the work of contemporary historians. Ranking among the most difficult topics of exploration from this period are …
In the Hunt for the “Sultans of Smack
This article traces the development and evolution of the Turkish heroin trade against the backdrop of the Republic of Turkey's long transition from imperial core to nation-state. In taking up heroin's relationship to modern Turkey, I would like to specifically explore the meaning and manifestations of what many inside and outside of academia have called the "deep state." Heroin, I argue, was and is one of the most vital enablers of the factional …
Die Turkei, die Juden und der Holocaust, Corry Guttstadt (Berlin
Minority rights in the contemporary Republic of Turkey remain a volatile issue. News dispatches frequently feature the latest violent encounter between Turkish security personnel and Kurdish rebels. Digging a bit deeper, one easily finds newly published works on the region's tortured history of Turkish-Greek conflicts or violence against the Armenians. In a sense, twentieth-century Turkey's violent relationship with its minorities seems a modern …
Beyond Istanbul's ‘Laz Underworld’
Although the Turkish mafia is increasingly recognised as a powerful force in the ongoing trade in weapons, narcotics and people in Europe and beyond, there are few critical histories of organised crime's origins in Turkey. Rather than present some pedantic general survey of the history of organized crime in modern Turkey, this essay attempts to address two broader critical points of departure. First, how did Anatolia's journey from imperial to re…
Last Rites for a 'Pure Bandit
The scene was an Istanbul court in the autumn of 1921 at high noon. The defendant before the judge stood trial for murder. Ostensibly it was an open-and-shut case: witnesses placed the defendant, a man by the name of Şah İsmail, at the scene of a double homicide committed in broad daylight. Found gun in hand, Şah İsmail had never denied he murdered the two men, İsmail Hakkı and Çerkes Yusuf. After his defence lawyer, Eyüp Sabri, finished addressi…
Between the Cracks
As arguably the most peripheral region within the Balkans, itself the most peripheral subset of Europe, Macedonia at the turn of the century was represented as the crossroads of East and West. The perceived schizophrenia of Macedonia crystallized during the Illinden Uprising of 1903, a rebellion that brought the provinces of Ottoman Macedonia to the attention of the European press. The seeming brutality of the violence, and the diplomatic questio…
Notorious Subjects, Invisible Citizens
For contemporary Istanbulites, a trip south, across the Sea of Marmara, poses nothing exceptional or treacherous. The southern shore is often a day-trip destination for those seeking to relax or sightsee in the port towns of Yalova or Çanakkale. The Marmara's southern coast is also a stop on the road to warmer, more comfortable climes farther south, such as the holiday resorts of Kuşadası or Foça. The region stands in sharp contrast to the farthe…
In the Hunt for the “Sultans of Smack
This article traces the development and evolution of the Turkish heroin trade against the backdrop of the Republic of Turkey's long transition from imperial core to nation-state. In taking up heroin's relationship to modern Turkey, I would like to specifically explore the meaning and manifestations of what many inside and outside of academia have called the "deep state." Heroin, I argue, was and is one of the most vital enablers of the factional …
Last Rites for a 'Pure Bandit
The scene was an Istanbul court in the autumn of 1921 at high noon. The defendant before the judge stood trial for murder. Ostensibly it was an open-and-shut case: witnesses placed the defendant, a man by the name of Şah İsmail, at the scene of a double homicide committed in broad daylight. Found gun in hand, Şah İsmail had never denied he murdered the two men, İsmail Hakkı and Çerkes Yusuf. After his defence lawyer, Eyüp Sabri, finished addressi…
Notorious Subjects, Invisible Citizens
For contemporary Istanbulites, a trip south, across the Sea of Marmara, poses nothing exceptional or treacherous. The southern shore is often a day-trip destination for those seeking to relax or sightsee in the port towns of Yalova or Çanakkale. The Marmara's southern coast is also a stop on the road to warmer, more comfortable climes farther south, such as the holiday resorts of Kuşadası or Foça. The region stands in sharp contrast to the farthe…
Poppy Politics
This paper surveys the history of American support for Iranian counter-narcotics policy between 1945 and 1989. In particular, it explores the general failings of Tehran's attempt to ban the domestic production and consumption of opium. The significance of this period is two-fold. First, this essay argues that American-backed efforts to combat the opium trade in Iran highlighted the detrimental effects narcotics had upon both state and society in …
Beyond Istanbul's ‘Laz Underworld’
Although the Turkish mafia is increasingly recognised as a powerful force in the ongoing trade in weapons, narcotics and people in Europe and beyond, there are few critical histories of organised crime's origins in Turkey. Rather than present some pedantic general survey of the history of organized crime in modern Turkey, this essay attempts to address two broader critical points of departure. First, how did Anatolia's journey from imperial to re…
Between the Cracks
As arguably the most peripheral region within the Balkans, itself the most peripheral subset of Europe, Macedonia at the turn of the century was represented as the crossroads of East and West. The perceived schizophrenia of Macedonia crystallized during the Illinden Uprising of 1903, a rebellion that brought the provinces of Ottoman Macedonia to the attention of the European press. The seeming brutality of the violence, and the diplomatic questio…
Notorious Subjects, Invisible Citizens
For contemporary Istanbulites, a trip south, across the Sea of Marmara, poses nothing exceptional or treacherous. The southern shore is often a day-trip destination for those seeking to relax or sightsee in the port towns of Yalova or Çanakkale. The Marmara's southern coast is also a stop on the road to warmer, more comfortable climes farther south, such as the holiday resorts of Kuşadası or Foça. The region stands in sharp contrast to the farthe…
Die Turkei, die Juden und der Holocaust, Corry Guttstadt (Berlin
Minority rights in the contemporary Republic of Turkey remain a volatile issue. News dispatches frequently feature the latest violent encounter between Turkish security personnel and Kurdish rebels. Digging a bit deeper, one easily finds newly published works on the region's tortured history of Turkish-Greek conflicts or violence against the Armenians. In a sense, twentieth-century Turkey's violent relationship with its minorities seems a modern …
Beyond Istanbul's ‘Laz Underworld’
Although the Turkish mafia is increasingly recognised as a powerful force in the ongoing trade in weapons, narcotics and people in Europe and beyond, there are few critical histories of organised crime's origins in Turkey. Rather than present some pedantic general survey of the history of organized crime in modern Turkey, this essay attempts to address two broader critical points of departure. First, how did Anatolia's journey from imperial to re…
Last Rites for a 'Pure Bandit
The scene was an Istanbul court in the autumn of 1921 at high noon. The defendant before the judge stood trial for murder. Ostensibly it was an open-and-shut case: witnesses placed the defendant, a man by the name of Şah İsmail, at the scene of a double homicide committed in broad daylight. Found gun in hand, Şah İsmail had never denied he murdered the two men, İsmail Hakkı and Çerkes Yusuf. After his defence lawyer, Eyüp Sabri, finished addressi…
In the Hunt for the “Sultans of Smack
This article traces the development and evolution of the Turkish heroin trade against the backdrop of the Republic of Turkey's long transition from imperial core to nation-state. In taking up heroin's relationship to modern Turkey, I would like to specifically explore the meaning and manifestations of what many inside and outside of academia have called the "deep state." Heroin, I argue, was and is one of the most vital enablers of the factional …
Poppy Politics
This paper surveys the history of American support for Iranian counter-narcotics policy between 1945 and 1989. In particular, it explores the general failings of Tehran's attempt to ban the domestic production and consumption of opium. The significance of this period is two-fold. First, this essay argues that American-backed efforts to combat the opium trade in Iran highlighted the detrimental effects narcotics had upon both state and society in …
A Question of Genocide
As we approach the hundredth anniversary of the First World War, historians continue to come to grips with the origins, progression and consequences of this epoch-defining conflict. If one turns to the Middle Eastern theatre, and surveys the repercussions of the war on the Ottoman Empire, a number of challenges and controversies beset the work of contemporary historians. Ranking among the most difficult topics of exploration from this period are …
Istanbul Confidential
A long-standing, but often troubled, partnership binds the United States and the Republic of Turkey. Shared national security interests, first brought on by the onset of the Cold War, lies at the heart of this relationship. 1 As "the bulwark" of North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Middle Eastern defense against the Soviet Union, Washington, under both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, came to invest vast amounts of money and atte…
Yücel Yanıkdağ. Healing the Nation
Fall of the Sultanate
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East, a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning the early twentieth century brought the sultanate to an end. This book encompasses a full accounting of the international political, economic, and social forces that prompted this climactic event in the making of the mode…
Sean McMeekin. The Ottoman Endgame
Sean McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923, follows a familiar path in introducing the significance of the First World War in the Middle East. Like other recent works surveying the Ottoman Empire’s collapse, the book treats the Great War as a crucible upon which the modern Middle East was forged. A clear understanding of the war and its outcomes, the author suggests, provides a necess…
An Empire Unredeemed
Ottoman rule ended without the consent of most Balkan, North African, Levantian, or Mesopotamian citizens. The establishment of post-Ottoman borders, states, and cultures took place in the wake of foreign conquest. The chapter explains how ending the Ottoman Empire was not necessarily a natural outcome of the First World War. Additionally, Mustafa Kemal/the National Assembly could have maintained the Ottoman mantle and preserved the notion of an …
American sea power in the contemporary security environment
This article assesses the relevance of US seapower in the contemporary security environment. This paper builds upon a rich literature on sea power, strategy, and maritime operations to assess recent factors and emerging geostrategic dynamics that are likely to affect American maritime strategy, while keeping sight of the principles that will endure regardless of shifting domestic and international politics. It places the application of sea power …
The Sons of Two Fatherlands
The article of record as published may be found at http://ejts.revues.org/index4424.html
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