POLI 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: San Remo Conference, French Mandate For Syria And The Lebanon, Edward Said
2 Oct 2014
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Certain theories become more relevant in certain parts of history than others. Huntington was writing during the end of the cold war, the split of the. 9/11 gave huntington"s theory a resurgence: post-arab spring. Even if the government democracies do not look like those of western democracies, the push for pluralism is still very strong in the region: relevance for foreign policy. Look at foreign policy between the west and the middle east: western powers and emerging middle east pre wwi, wwi, britain and arabs the allies" side, britain and france. Britain would support the creation of an arab state if they supported. Dividing the me into sphere"s of influence. They just wanted to have economic, military and foreign policy influence. Didn"t want to deal with the day-to-day: interests. National jewish home in palestine (not a state: post wwi, versailles/paris peace conference (1919) First attempt to hammer out a post-war world order.
