A New Emerging Middle East (dis)- Order in a Post-Sikes-Picot Era
A New Emerging Middle East (dis) Order in a Post-Sikes-Picot Era I have coined a new term that might best capture what we experience nowadays in the Middle East with the US-Israel war ongoing against Iran. The “Post-Sikes-Picot Era” is gradually emerging as we are witnessing the collapse of the older order of the Middle East. What is interesting is that this new middle east order looks more like disorder. This disorder marks the end of a century-old order known as Sikes-Picot Agreement that divided the region into countries that never saw peace, coexistence nor order or political stability. This was because it was imposed from the outside by colonial powers of the Great Britain and France after the First World War and the collapse of the Old, Sick man of Europe, that is the Former Ottoman Empire. Have we entered a Post-Sikes-Picot Era in the Middle East? For over a century, the modern Middle East has been shaped by a single, controversial framework: the Sykes–P...