Don’t Blame Sykes-Picot for the Middle East Mess
Tyrants, not borders, are the problem.
May 16, 2016
Don’t Blame Sykes-Picot for the Middle East Mess
Tyrants, not borders, are the problem.
It has become something of a cliché to blame the Sykes-Picot treaty—signed 100 years ago today—for the woes of the modern Middle East, and to assert that the current disorders signify its death. However, argue Steven A. Cook and Amr T. Leheta, such claims are ill-founded, and not least because the agreement was never fully enacted and it took a decade for the region’s borders to coalesce in their present form. And that’s not the only reason:
May 16, 2016
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