Introduction: The Diplomacy of Partition The Asia Minor Agreement, concluded in May 1916 and retroactively known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, stands as the foundational document of the modern Middle Eastern state system. While often reduced in popular discourse to an arbitrary division of territory, the agreement was, in reality, a complex diplomatic instrument designed to … Continue reading The Imperial Cartographers: Mark Sykes, François Georges-Picot, and the Line That Split the Sand