Ozan Ozavci, Assistant Professor of History, Utrecht University

Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, and associate member at the Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques in Paris.

"By integrating this security studies perspective within a well-known history, O"&zavcı offers a provocative challenge to how scholars will read events in larger Europe after the Congress of Vienna. Drawing from research in many underused archives, O"&zavcı provides a neatly organized, methodologically innovative account of the European Powers' emerging concerns as the Ottoman Empire transformed during its critical Tanzimat era ... this book will quickly become essential reading for graduate students in Middle Eastern studies and scholars of the Ottoman Empire." -- I. Blumi, CHOICE

"Ozavci's study combines a wealth of international archival research with methodological rigour. The central theme of the book, focusing on "security culture" among the Great Powers after the Congress of Vienna, is masterfully treated, and carefully crafted. This is a work that defines the state of the art in diplomatic history to date." -- Selim Deringil, Lebanese American University

"Ozan Ozavci's book is a successful tour de force and a pleasant read. It is an exhaustive and erudite research conducted in several archives, which remains accessible to non-specialist readers...Such inclusive, granular as well as multi-perspective analysis, should be a scholarly reference for historians and current international politics analysts too." -- Davide Rodogno, Graduate Insitute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

"Dr. Ozavci has produced a wonderful example of the benefits of interdisciplinary scholarship. His impressive new book not only provides a wealth of insights into the evolution of the modern Ottoman state, but it proves innovative. By integrating a security studies perspective in a provocative manner, this book will quickly become essential reading to advanced graduate students in Middle Eastern studies and scholars of the Ottoman Empire more generally." -- Isa Blumi, Institue for Turkish Studies, Stockholm University

"Dangerous Gifts is a major achievement. It is an original and sophisticated account of the European Powers' interventions in Egypt, Greece and the Lebanon in the nineteenth century. It triumphantly demonstrates that these were fluid and dynamic international political crises, and reveals the agency of the Ottoman state in them in a way that previous accounts of the 'Eastern question' have been unable to do." -- Jonathan Parry, University of Cambridge