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alist yearnings caused by the seemingly interminable rotting-away of the Ottoman Empire.
The Eastern Question was settled by the cataclysm of World War I, from which the modern
Arab state system emerged, helped forged as it was by age-old geographical features and
population clusters that Marshall Hodgson writes about so eloquently. But a hundred years
on, the durability of that post-Ottoman state system in the heart of the Oikoumene should
not be taken for granted.
