POL326Y1 Lecture 18: Lecture 3_12
15 Mar 2018
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Final exam: 2 rooms in exam center (4/9) History of involvement in middle east: considerably shorter than usfp in. 3 prisms: economic interests, cold war/focus on secular nationalism as means of combatting that, political culture. 20th century involvement: fdr forged close relationship with house of saud in saudi. Interventions in ww1: prevented direct colonization of ottoman territories by france and gb. League of nations: resulted in creation of modern boundaries of. Middle east not with intention of creating stable democracies-creating states that would be easy for european powers to manipulate to support their core interests (easy access to resources of the region- By the end of ww2: m. e. represented an area of enormous interest for u. s. policy-makers. George: declared that middle eastern oil rep. the greatest strategic asset on the planet; crucial for us + allies to control key resource in context of emerging cold war.
