EUROPEAN POWERS AND THE NAISSANCE OF WEAK STATES IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST AFTER WORLD WAR

Year 2015, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 96 - 110, 01.01.2015

Gudrun Harrer

Abstract

Hundred years after World War I broke out in 1914, the Arab national state system which was created by European powers after the war is under pressure. The so called “Islamic State” could lead to the end of Iraq and Syria in their present borders. The paper examines the question where the lack of resilience of those states stems from. The answer that they were created as and still are “artificial” states is not satisfactory. Early policy choices, first by Great Britain and France, then by undemocratic regimes, contributed to the fragility of the state societies

Keywords

World War I, Sykes-Picot, League of Nation Mandates, Syria, Iraq, Islamic State

AVRUPA GÜÇLERİ VE I. DÜNYA SAVAŞI SONRASINDA ARAP ORTADOĞUSUNDA ZAYIF DEVLETLERİN DOĞUŞU

Abstract

1914 yılında patlak veren I. Dünya Savaşı’ndan bir yüzyıl sonra, savaş sonrasında Avrupalı güçler tarafından oluşturulan Arap ulus devlet sistemi baskı altındadır. ‘İslam Devleti’, Irak ve Suriye’nin bugünkü sınırlarının sonunu getirebilir. Bu çalışma bu devletlerdeki direnç eksikliğinin nelerden kaynaklandığını sorusuna eğilmektedir. ‘Yapay’ devletler olarak oluşturuldukları ve hala da öyle oldukları yönündeki cevap tatmin edici değildir. Önce Büyük Britanya ve Fransa, ardından demokratik olmayan rejimler tarafından alınan ilk tercihler devlet toplumlarının kırılganlığına katkıda bulunmuştur

Keywords

I. Dünya Savaşı, Sykes-Picot, Milletler Cemiyeti Mandaları, Suriye, Irak, İslam Devleti

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