To judge from press coverage, the emergence
of Islamic State has brought about a
cartographic revolution in the Middle
East. With the borders of Syria and Iraq in
flux, journalists have resurrected the legend
of Sykes-Picot, wherein Britain and
France are said to have divided up the
Ottoman empire between them in an
agreement signed 100 years ago, in May
1916. Russia’s intervention in Syria, by
upstaging the United States and her allies,
seems in this view to be completing the
rout of western influence in the Middle
East, putting the final nail in the coffin of
‘Sykes-Picot’.
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