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This 3 page paper is a reaction to an article entitled The End of Empires, about European influence in the Middle East. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Empire. Discussion The first and almost knee-jerk reaction to the article is that it seems every nation in Europe has meddled in the Middle East at one time or other,
and created a mess that lasts to this day. The second reaction is that the West has a lot of nerve acting as it did; and the third reaction is
that the Middle East as it looks today was the result of a number of actions that were undertaken by people who live thousands of miles away and have little
understanding of the regions cultures, history or problems. Europe had been interested in the Middle East for some time, but it wasnt until the European powers defeated the Ottoman Empire
in World War I that they began to move into the region with the intent of creating spheres of influence there. "As a result of treaties negotiated during the war
itself, the Arab provinces of the empire were carved up into a number of successor states, each of them under the control of one or the other of the victorious
powers" (The end of empires, p. 6). This left Iraq, Trans-Jordan and Palestine under British control and Lebanon and Syria under the French. The wishes of the Arabs themselves were
acknowledged only half-heartedly, which makes this business of carving up sovereign nations by third powers particularly objectionable. The fact that some League of Nations members, as well as the United
States, were talking about things like self-determination and freedom for the Arabs led to the creation of a new political instrument, the mandate. The mandate system differs from an outright
colonization attempt because it required holders of the mandates to "submit to certain internationally sanctioned guidelines, notably the need to establish constitutional governments in the new states as a way
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