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Arab Nationalism and Oil-these were the principal factors complicating the relations of the West Asian countries with the outside world. Do you agree?

  • UPSC 1993
  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

Tracing West Asia's external relations chronologically from the First World War to the 1970s shows Arab nationalism and oil repeatedly, if separately, disrupting the region's dealings with Britain, France and later the United States.

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  • Interwar Period (1919-1939): Nationalism Dominates
  • The Second World War and Its Immediate Aftermath (1939-1948)
  • Suez, Cold War, and the Oil Factor Sharpens (1950s-1960s)
  • The Oil-Shock Era (1970s): Oil Becomes Paramount
  • Assessment

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