PS 345 Lecture 3: NOTES - Halliday Pt. 2
13 Nov 2018
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The development of relations between regional states. The evolution of transnational and internal forces. Discussion of the period after 1918 involves analytic choice about how international forces operated. How far it is factors external to the region, how far it is regional states, and how far it is other processes, internal and transnational, that determines the course of events. The period of formal european colonialism in the middle east was short-lived (compared to that in latin america and south asia) only a few decades. Former ottoman territories were given independence within a decade or two after ww1. Iraq 1932, egypt 1936, syria 1943, lebanon 1946, jordan 1946. British abandoned the attempt to reconcile the jews and arabs in. The colonial period (short as it was) still held significant impact on politics and society. External powers (previously held back by ottomans) now a determinant role in the central middle east. Commitments made in ww1 (possibly promising an independent united.
