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Jun 28, 2019 · Arab independence undermined French desires for control the Middle East, and the French delegation made several attempts to keep Faisal from the conference. Refusing to admit him as a British Delegate (the title Feisal had arrived under), the British government was forced to issue formal complaints.
Why not sent a fact-finding inquiry to ask the Arabs themselves what they wanted. The Peace Conference, he said, using a favorite formula, would find ‘the most scientific basis possible for a settlement….
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Prince Faisal presented Arab demands at the Paris Peace Conference, where he held talks with French Prime Minister George Clemenceau on the Arab cause and aspirations for independence.
Emir Faisal and the Arab delegation at Versailles, 1919. The Arabs led by Faisal (front centre) hoped to use the peace talks to create a unified independent Arab state, but they found the winning countries had made their own plans to divide the Middle East.
- Introduction↑
- Wartime Agreements and The Wilsonian Imaginary↑
- The Treaties of Sèvres and Lausanne: Nation State Versus Empire↑
- Conclusion↑
By the time the Paris Peace Conference turned its attention to the Middle East in late spring and summer of 1919, a disconnect had developed between the discursive and material power of the Conference itself. The Conference, or more accurately, the five Great Powers that made up the Supreme Council of the Conference (Britain, France, the United Sta...
The European Allies made an array of wartime agreements among themselves concerning the Ottoman domains, both to ensure mutual implication in the war and to divide the projected spoils of victory. The Sykes-Picot Agreement of May 1916 divided much of the Arab Ottoman domains between the British and the French, with the Italians later included as pa...
As the Paris Peace Conference proceeded, the Allies continued to deal with the regime of the Sultan in Constantinople as though it were the actual site of sovereignty in Anatolia. After the Mudros armistice, a modest force of some 3,500 Allied (mostly British) troops occupied Constantinople. Gradually, a distinct, ethnic Turkish successor state had...
The peace settlement in the former Ottoman lands shows how empire and peacemaking shaped one another in the region after the Great War. The peace settlement began to take shape during the war itself, through a traditional partition among empires, shown clearly in the Sykes-Picot agreement. Yet 19th-century imperial arrangements found themselves dis...
This paper reconsiders the Arab appeal at Paris within international frameworks of race and colonialism, and explores the effect of the Big Four’s decision on the future of human rights and liberal governance in Syria.
Mar 23, 2023 · This article examines the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the five post-war treaties (Versailles, Saint-Germain, Neuilly, Trianon and Sèvres) to explore how these issues were resolved in the post-war settlements.
