Geopolitics
Lines Drawn Elsewhere
Two agreements that did less than you think, five weeks in Delhi, and a village in two countries
Sykes and Picot · the Berlin Act · Cyril Radcliffe · Baarle · 4 chapters · 11 min read
Two agreements that did less than you think, five weeks in Delhi, and a village in two countries.
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How the map got its shape
- 01The Agreement That Did Not Draw the BordersOn a secret agreement that is blamed for borders it did not draw.
- 02What Berlin Actually DecidedOn a conference that wrote procedure, and what procedure did.
- 03Five Weeks, One BarristerOn an impossible brief, and why the deadline is not the point.
- 04The Village in Two CountriesOn what a border is, once you take the drama out of it.