![]() ![]() The story goes something like this, as I remember it from the book. ![]() The road is littered with misinformation on all sides disasterous assumptions and unwarrented mistakes egos and blatant grabs for power. The process of Middle Eastern statehood is a story involving Britain, France, Russia, Greece, and on the fringes, America. The system of states as we know it in the Middle East (a term only invented in 1902) (224), was crafted by Europeans around 1922 as a way to grab new expansions to their empire, to carve up the fallen Ottoman Empire and establish influence as they had done with other countries after previous wars. As David Fromkin points out in A Peace to End All Peace, such an assumption is displaced from reality. Modern debates often assume that the particular borders we see now-Iraq, Syria, Jordan, etc.-always existed in the arrangement we see now, with similar political structures. Most contemporary discussions on the Middle East ignore how the current system of states there were formed. ![]() Review Copyright © 2002 Garret Wilson - 8 August 2002 8:43am ☰ Review: A Peace to End All Peace Title A Peace to End All Peace Author David Fromkin Publisher New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1989 ISBN 0-8050-6884-8 ![]() Review: A Peace to End All Peace Garret Wilson ![]()
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