Reply #25: Nation State hood was imposed after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. [View All]

[amber dog democrat]

I wonder if the French and English had even a clue how difficult this was going to be.
Maybe the fact that they were colonial powers by the on through to WW II, the next step in political evolution was not seriously contemplated. They'd have no good answer.

And now, thrust into the world spotlight its not a comfortable situation.

I am guessing beduin tribal societies coexisted well with what ever authority it was that could claim control over a region be it Babalonyan, Assyrian, Carthegenian, Egyptian, Roman, Arab, under Saladin, or the Caliphates of various cities. I think the governing societies were more involved in regulating trade and keeping down bandits.

More of a challenge than Yugoslavia even.