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Chapter 1. Wave
of nationalism and socialism (1945-1956) (3)
019. Atrantic
Charter (3-3)
In postwar era in the Middle East, independent
movement of the nation state started to realize US ideology. The Kingdom of
Jordan and the Republic of Syria were established in 1946. There were many
factors for the establishment of two countries. They were not nation-states in
the real meaning. The Kingdom of Jordan was a fruit of the McMahon-Hussein
Correspondence between the UK and Hassim royal family. Syrian Republic was a
very vulnerable republican state. It was simply a dummy of France. France
wanted to rule Syria as imperialistic dictator.
Following Jordan and Syria, new nation
countries were born one after another in the Middle East. But the Middle East
was a world where prevailing the struggle of ethnicity, religion and political
ideology without harmony. It became a battle fields of proxy war of the
East-West conflict between the US and the U.S.S.R.
(To be continued ----)
(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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