Wilsonian Armenia: The Story Behind a Failed Project: Second Edition

"Wilsonian Armenia" was the proposed Armenian state envisioned by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson after the First World War. Presented at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and embodied in the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, the project briefly seemed to have the support of the victorious Allied powers. Yet within months it had collapsed. Why did this internationally endorsed plan fail? Was the absence of the United States' signature on the Treaty of Sèvres decisive, or were deeper political forces at work? Drawing on contemporary newspapers, journals, and historical sources, this book follows the story from the Goeben Breslau incident of 1914 to the Lausanne Conference of 1922, which formally ended the Wilsonian vision. Combining historical investigation with the pace of a journalist's report and, at times, the intrigue of a historical detective story, it examines the diplomacy, interests, and decisions behind one of the most ambitious yet short-lived postwar projects.