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This chapter appears in the book, First World War and Its Aftermath: The Shaping of the Modern Middle East. Edited by T.G. Fraser.
Chapter abstract: By 1943 and 1946, Lebanon and Syria, respectively, had gained their independence from the French Mandate of Syria. However, this split of the original mandatory state into two sovereign states had been mapped out well before their official independence. From the inception of the Mandate, Lebanon was to be carved from Syria for independence, due to the Maronitesʹ special relationship with France. The fate of the remaining state of Syria, though, was less concrete. France favored Syria's minorities, and the Mandate evolved in the shadow of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and his advocacy of self-determination.
ISBN
978-1-909942-76-9
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Ginko, part of the University of Chicago Press
City
Chicago
Keywords
Kurds, Independence, French mandate, Nationalism
Disciplines
Diplomatic History | Islamic World and Near East History | Political History
Recommended Citation
McQuade, Laila and Al-Tikriti, Nabil, "Ch. 15: The Limits of Soft Power: Why Kurdish Nationalism Failed in the French Mandate of Syria" (2015). Books and Chapters. 10.
https://scholar.umw.edu/hist_amst_books/10
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This Book Chapter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
The definitive chapter appears on the JSTOR website at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1h1hxfv.19.