State-Building Response Paper

State-Building Response Paper The first paragraph of the chapter outlines the author's main argument. In this paragraph, the authors show the efforts made by indigenous movements in establishing nations through conquest and revolution. The indigenous peoples aimed at conquering nations, not through war but through revolution. The League of Nations member states did not have the mandate to exercise their power beyond Mesopotamia and the Levant. "Outside that region, in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Anatolia, and Persia, indigenous nationalist movements and nation-builders established states through revolution, conquest, coup d'etat, and anti-imperialist struggle.” This is an introduction to the various leaderships developed in countries such as Turkey and Iran, as outlined later in the chapter. Such leadership played an important role in salvaging the damage done by foreign powers and leading their countries to economic independence. For instance, the governments no longer relied on foreign loans as they used to, indicating the success of a revolution. In this chapter, the author briefly mentions mass organizing and class consciousness. The author argues that different leaders like Mustafah and Rezah played a role in building the nation. Such was done by combining modernism and indigenous ways. Through the mass organization, class consciousness was brought to a focus on nationalism, along with the strongest urban middle-class elite from Islam. By doing so, these leaders created a new way of life for their countrymen.[Gelvin, James L. The modern Middle East: a history. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.]
One of the passages that changed how I think about modernization and the economy is how Mustafah and Rezah led the state economic intervention. This paragraph changed my view and understanding of the economic impact of World War I. The modernization funding in Iran and Turkey after World War 1 differed from the defense development years because the people no longer relied on money from raw materials, cash crops, foreign loans, and concessions. Before such initiatives wer...