Publication

1 Oct 2013

This commentary argues that a lasting peace agreement cannot be reached in the Middle East if world powers stick to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement in which France and the UK divided up the region without consideration of its ethno-religious and geographical realities.

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Author Steven Blockmans
Series CEPS Commentaries
Publisher Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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