The Impact of the Law of Investment in the Consolidation of the Ottoman Influence in the Arab World

Abstract

The Ottoman Empire had found that the most prominent means through which it could strengthen its power and maintain its States, including the Arab world, was to encourage foreign European investment in rail projects so that they could bring a lot of benefits.The Ottoman Empire also issued several reform legislations. But when it was involved in numerous debts, its destiny and that of the Arab world was linked to the political schemes of foreign governments. These investments became a prelude to the consolidation of foreign colonialism.