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It took the cataclysm of World War II to bring the European imperial system to an end in the Arab world. Victorious but bankrupt, Britain could no longer afford an empire. France, too, emerged on the winning side, but the French people had been forced to endure the horrors of occupation to arrive there.
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McMillan, M.E. (2013). Patterns of Power, 1945–2010. In: Fathers and Sons. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137297891_6
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