Announcement Calenda 1227959
Consular protection is a legal mechanism that enables a state to exercise a form of sovereignty over populations residing in another state. Generally based on treaties or agreements between the two states concerned, it takes on extremely varied contours and modalities: while today it is strictly limited by the theoretical equality between states within the framework of the international system founded in 1945, in the 19th century in particular, it could result in quasi-colonial encroachments on the sovereignty of host countries. In this respect, the capitular regime, whether in the Ottoman Empire, China or Egypt, constitutes a fertile field of observation, the potential of which historiography has not yet exhausted.
