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Sykes -- Picot Agreement
As Iraq lurches deeper into turmoil, Kurdish leaders threaten to break away and declare outright independence, and the militants of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) are reshaping the border between Iraq and Syria, one must look to the history of the region to be able to put these conflicts in full perspective (Muir, 2016). The Sykes -- Picot Agreement was officially signed on May 16, 1916, however the agreement was in the workings for quite some time before it was officially signed. The deal was also known as the Asia Minor Agreement because of the geography that the agreement sought to affect. The Middle East has been a major strategic goal for policy planners and strategist for centuries. An author who published in the Smithsonian summarized the agreement as:
"Even before the final outcome of the Great War has been determined, Great Britain, France, and Russia secretly discussed how they would carve up the Middle East into "spheres of influence" once World War I had ended (Christianson, 2015)."
At the time in which this agreement was being negotiated, the Ottoman Empire had been decline for decades and many representatives in the West saw their opportunity to exert control...
However, the treaty was officially being negotiated in secret, out of the view of the public and only key officials were privy to the information. The negotiations eventually became known as the Sykes -- Picot Agreement, after it was named after its lead negotiators, the aristocrats Sir Mark Sykes of England and FranAois Georges-Picot of France (Christianson, 2015). The terms that these leaders constructed, shaped the course of future far beyond anything that could have been possibly realized at the time. The geopolitical consequences of the claims to the Middle East have lingered into today's era.
At the time, Britain and France were already well established in the region in terms of their economic and culture influences and the two men and this obviously gave the men the confidence to presume they could control the region's future. Sykes states "I should like to draw a line from the 'e'…
Works Cited
AFP. (2016, May 14). 100 years since Sykes-Picot: The deal that changed the Mideast forever. Retrieved from The Times of Israel: http://www.timesofisrael.com/100-years-since-sykes-picot-the-deal-that-changed-the-mideast-forever/
Christianson, S. (2015, November 16). The Origins of the World War I Agreement That Carved Up the Middle East. Retrieved from Smithsonian: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sykes-picot-agreement-180957217/?no-ist
Muir, J. (2016, May 16). Sykes-Picot: The map that spawned a century of resentment. Retrieved from BBC News: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36300224
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