The areas of influence in Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq have a long history of wanting to create their own nation state to be controlled by a centralized government without outside interference from the western countries of France and Britain. The region is very diverse and more ‘modern’ than believed to be. The people should be allowed to govern themselves since the area was doing fine on its own before Britain and France had any interest there. Ever since the Western countries have intervened in the region, the people been suppressed and oppressed to only push the agenda of the empire without worrying about what effects it could be having on the region.
The signs of the region wanting to break away from western influence are there, for example the countries have been developing themselves toward Defensive Developmentalism since the 1800’s. There have been multiple attempts …show more content…
At the same time there wasn’t a commonly accepted political system in place to unite the Arabs with one another so as a result a lot of nationalist movements began. “Each nationalism claimed the exclusive right to command the loyalty and obedience of the citizens its proponents sought to govern.” (Gelvin 182) Which brings back, Woodrow Wilson’s twelfth point, the region wants to self-govern, Wilson wants to give them the right to self-govern, so the people should be allowed to create their own state and govern themselves. If the European powers are allowed to divide what is left of the Ottoman Empire without taking into consideration all the things in play, then that could open up a pandora’s box of problems for the present and the future. There is already a strong sense of nationalism present and if the people are told to move somewhere else or if another entity began to control the area it could lead to riots and
The signs of the region wanting to break away from western influence are there, for example the countries have been developing themselves toward Defensive Developmentalism since the 1800’s. There have been multiple attempts …show more content…
At the same time there wasn’t a commonly accepted political system in place to unite the Arabs with one another so as a result a lot of nationalist movements began. “Each nationalism claimed the exclusive right to command the loyalty and obedience of the citizens its proponents sought to govern.” (Gelvin 182) Which brings back, Woodrow Wilson’s twelfth point, the region wants to self-govern, Wilson wants to give them the right to self-govern, so the people should be allowed to create their own state and govern themselves. If the European powers are allowed to divide what is left of the Ottoman Empire without taking into consideration all the things in play, then that could open up a pandora’s box of problems for the present and the future. There is already a strong sense of nationalism present and if the people are told to move somewhere else or if another entity began to control the area it could lead to riots and