Document Type
Humanities
Abstract
This paper analyzes three conflicting agreements made by the Allied powers between 1915 and 1917: the Husayn-McMahon correspondence, the Sykes-Picot arrangements, and the Balfour Declaration. It reveals the agreements as demonstrative of deeper patterns of political power and strategy in the Middle East that persist today. This paper moreover compares the Middle East with the European colonization of Rwanda in the 1880s, and how the nation's internal division was caused by external global powers seeking political and economic gain. This analysis seeks to connect global events as part of a wider political agenda propagated by Western powers.
Recommended Citation
Park, Pauline
(2017)
"The WWI Middle East: Western Intervention and Modern-Day Political Conflict,"
Global Tides: Vol. 11, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/globaltides/vol11/iss1/3
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