Crimea 1853-1856. La guerra attesa e la costruzione di un nuovo ordine mediterraneo

In the nineteenth century, international law was transformed by a select group of jurists who identified the shortcomings of the old jus publicum europaeum and reinvented legal texts to accommodate the increasingly frequent processes of inclusion in the international community. Shedding the constraints of European and Christian paradigms, the new law aimed to reestablish legal dialogue with the 'other' from a universal perspective. Nevertheless, contradictions persisted. Relations with the Ottoman Empire required reevaluation considering the Western-style reforms formally initiated by the Sublime Porte in the 1830s. In the 1850s, amidst the events in Crimea, the interactions between the European Concert's primacy and the Ottoman Empire accelerated the construction of a new international order. This period highlighted the strategies employed by key figures to align Euro-Mediterranean legal practices and control mechanisms with the emerging international law.