ISSN 2078-9823 (Print), ISSN 2587-7879 (Online)

DOI: 10.15507/2078-9823.044.018.201804.398-408

УДК 94(100-87)

Liudmila M. Samarskaya

Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia),

e-mail: saluma@bk.ru

 

POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE EMERGENCE OF THE MANDATE PALESTINE: Old and “New Diplomacy” (1918–1923)

 

Introduction. The Mandate Palestine as a separate administrative unit inside the British empire emerged after the First World War. The aim of the present article is to research and analyze the key factors of its creation, the so-called «new diplomacy», which was formed on the verge of 1910s–1920s. Materials and methods. The methods used in the article are historical-analytical and historical-systematical applied to the original sources, as well as to the research literature on the relevant topics. Results and Discussion. During and after the First World War there happened considerable changes in the international political system: nationalist movements of the Middle East became the leading players in it; among them a major role was played by the Jewish and Arab nationalism. Their aspirations were supported by the United States of America, which with the help of the «new diplomacy» and the League of Nations tried to change the balance of powers on the international arena of that period. Conclusion. As a result of all the changes the mandate system was created – a new phenomenon in the international relations of that period. Thus the appearance of the Mandate Palestine became possible

Keywords: the Mandate Palestine, Zionism, nationalism, the Middle East, «new diplomacy», the League of Nations

 

For citation: Liudmila M. Samarskaya. Political and Diplomatic Circumstances of the Emergence of Mandate Palestine: Old and “New Diplomacy” (1918–1923). Gumanitarian : aktual’nye problemy gumanitarnoi nauki i obrazovaniia = Russian Journal of the Humanities. 2018; 18(4): 398–408. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.15507/2078-9823.044.018.201804.398-408

 

Acknowledgements: the research has been conducted with the support of RSF grant «Problems and perspectives of the international and political transformation of the Middle East in the conditions of global and regional threats», project 17-18-01614. The author would like to thank her scientific supervisor, Prof., D. H. Irina Donovna Zvyagelskaya, for her active help in creating and editing the present article.

 

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