'The Last Treaty is a book about endings: ending of war, ending of empire, ending of hope for some. Suny, author of 'They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else': A History of the Armenian Genocide Tusan tells us about the moment when the making of the modern Middle East marked the first shaky steps toward the unmaking of the region that persists to the present.' Ronald G.

But in fact neither the treaty nor the emergence of new humanitarian institutions and practices settled the deep structural divisions with which imperialism failed to deal. 'Turning the lens from the West to the Middle East, Michelle Tusan shows how fighting continued until the 'final treaty' at Lausanne appeared to settle the Eastern Question once and for all. At a time when the refugee crisis and the role of the international community once again take center stage, her work is an essential read for anyone interested in the legacies of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.' Bruno Cabanes, author of The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924

'Michelle Tusan brings the 'Middle Eastern Front' from the periphery to the center of the history of the First World War and invites us to complicate its usual periodization.

The Last Treaty by Michelle Tusan