A Peace to End All Peace
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What’s it about?
How British and French officials, guided by wartime expediency, drew the modern Middle East's borders, creating a legacy of conflict that endures today.
You’ll learn
- The modern Middle East was created by European imperialists
- Three contradictory promises sowed lasting conflict
- Arbitrary borders doomed new states to instability
- Wartime decisions had catastrophic unintended consequences