THE eyes of all the world are now turned toward the Greeks. Among the great peoples of Europe they are a feeble folk, the mere remnant of an ancient greatness. In despite of the practical judgment of ...

AFTER a short period of what the Germans would call organic development, the Eastern Question has again reached a point at which war seems, if not inevitable, at least possible, perhaps probable. The ...

FOR many years preceding 1914 the international scene was dominated by the so-called Eastern Question--the question of what should be done to reform the Ottoman Empire, or (the real rub) to distribute ...

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- "The Eastern Question" was the name given in the 19th century to the threat posed to European stability by the extensive but tottering Ottoman Empire. Much has changed ...

A new book examines the 19th-century “Eastern Question” that wracked the brains of European statesmen when thinking about the Middle East, writes David Tresilian Anyone who studied European history at ...