International Agreements that Affected the modern world

International agreements and that affected the modern world

Introduction

Are you aware that the present world has been shaped by international agreements ? An international agreement is defined by Congressional Research Service Library of Congress in their study on Treaties and other international agreements : the role of the United State senate , as an agreement between two or more states or international organizations that is intended to be legally binding and governed by international law ' International agreement and treaty are two confusing terminologies . However there occur differences . A treaty is defined by

Congressional Research Service Library of Congress as an international agreement concluded between states in written form and governed by international law ' whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its particular designation (Congressional Research Service Library of Congress , 2001 . This essay looks at the major international treaties that have affected the world

Sykes-Picot agreement

The Sykes-Picot agreement was signed in the month of May 1916 , a period characterized by the First World War . The war was between the Great Britain and France . Russia was also in the Middle East looking forward to the collapse of Ottoman Empire . The Sykes-Picot agreement signing led to the division of Middle East into several units such as Turkey , Syria , Lebanon , Palestine and Iraq . These states exist even up to date . The units became areas of British and French hegemony (BBC 2001

The agreement acquired its name from those who pushed to its existence Sir Mark Sykes from...