La Sublime Porte, les puissances européennes et le problème de la course maritime de la Régence d’Alger aux 18e-19e siècles

Abstract

This research proposes to examine the major milestones of the political system of the Regency of Algiers, highlighting the relations maintained between this Regency and the Sublime Porte during the period of the Deys (1671-1830). Furthermore, we aim to analyze the impact of the maritime activities of the Regency of Algiers in the Mediterranean during the 18th and 19th centuries on diplomatic relations between the European powers and the Sublime Porte, which were from the 18th century in a period of decadence. Our research also attempts to trace the boundaries of the geographical space of the Algerian privateering and its consequences and to explain how it became a real diplomatic crisis between this Regency and the Metropolis. We will study the issue of the Independence of the Regency of Algiers on the aspect of external relations and its impact on the position of the Sublime Porte concerning these relations with the Western powers that had begun to shake the borders of the Ottoman space to share the heritage of “The Sick Man” at the level of the European Continent and the Mediterranean to impose a new world order and a new vision on the organization of international relations to the whole Ottoman Islamic world.