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“The Eastern Question has always been an international question.” Elucidate.

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  • Nation-State System

The Eastern Question — the diplomatic problem of what would replace the disintegrating Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and the Near East — was, from its emergence to its final resolution after the First World War, structurally incapable of remaining a local or bilateral matter.

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  • The Divergent Stakes of Each Great Power
  • A Century of Recurring Internationalisation
  • Institutionalised, Not Incidental, Internationalism

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