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      What is the point about Sykes-Picot?

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      Author(s)
      Bilgin, P.
      Date
      2016
      Source Title
      Global Affairs
      Print ISSN
      2334-0460
      Electronic ISSN
      2334-0479
      Publisher
      Routledge
      Volume
      2
      Issue
      3
      Pages
      255 - 259
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      The Sykes–Picot Agreement (1916) became (in)famous once again following a tweet announcing a propaganda video by the group that call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) declaring “the end of Sykes–Picot”. In this essay I suggest that the point about Sykes–Picot is not about the “artificiality” of borders in the Middle East (for all borders are artificial in different ways) or the way in which they were drawn (for almost all borders were agreed on by a few men, and seldom women, behind closed doors) but (also) that it was shaped by a discursive economy that allowed for the International Society to decide the fate of those that were deemed as not-yet capable of governing themselves. ISIS preoccupation with the “end of Sykes–Picot” is conditioned by the same discursive economy that it apparently seeks to resist.
      Keywords
      Sykes–Picot Agreement
      Middle East
      Security
      ISIS
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/48859
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2016.1236518
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