Grains and Cattles: Post-War Diplomacy of Survival on the Aegean Shores

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study scrutinizes on a postWWI refugee relief operation on the Aegean following the Turkish-Greek war between 1919 and 1922. The international diplomatic efforts to save the refugees are examined through a novel concept, which is called as ‘survival diplomacy’. The international response to the famine situation sweeping the refugee souls is taken under close consideration. The underlying reason is to manifest the regenerative effects of the survival matters over the international economic order, rather than merely displaying the ethico-political credentials of the international system. From this point of view, the notion of survival diplomacy is suggested here as a favourable ground to construe implicit renegotiations among the political establishments, economic agencies and scientific discourses as the chief pillars of the international system.