Download or read book The Near East Since the First World War written by Malcolm Yapp and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text takes up the story of M.E.Yapp's previous volume in the series, The Making of the Modern Near East, 1792-1923, and surveys the history of the region from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, North and South Yemen and the Gulf States. from within the region and can only be understood by study of internal forces. In addition examines the extraordinary stability of the state system that emerged after World War 1 and the post-1950 transformation of the region after the end of European domination.