Introduction[Configurations économiques dans l'espace post-ottoman]

The reflections conducted in this issue question the impact of the Ottoman economic legacy in the Eastern Mediterranean, a century after the dislocation of an imperial space that was more than a thousand years old, first Roman, then Byzantine and finally Ottoman. After analyzing the constituent elements of this legacy, based on the dynamics of the global economy and the internal dynamics of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, the contributions attempt to grasp its current consequences in the context of the problem of the production of public goods in the post-Ottoman space. Can this legacy be designated as responsible for the economic difficulties experienced by the successor states? Have the nation states that have emancipated themselves managed to free themselves from this legacy? What is the impact of this legacy from the point of view of regional economic cooperation? What is the scope of the "neo-Ottoman" movement that aims to reconstitute the lost unity of this economic space? Finally, beyond this legacy, are we still in the presence of the influence of external dynamics at work whose origins date back to the 19th century? The analyses carried out within the framework of a multidisciplinary approach, strive to shed light on these questions which continue to remain relevant, even a century after the disappearance of this imperial economic space.