One hundred years ago on May 16 Britain and France signed a secret deal to carve up the carcass of the moribund Ottoman Empire that has since become a byword in the Middle East for imperialist ...
FORT BENNING, Ga. -- Exactly 100 years to the day after the Sykes-Picot agreement was signed, Soldiers gathered in Marshall Auditorium, May 16, to hear scholars explain how this agreement shaped the ...
The focus on the century-old accord is a product of bad history and shoddy social science—and it’s surely not the cause of the region's dysfunction. Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and ...