Post-Ottoman mandatory powers shaped Arab states in their own institutional image

Evidence

A new phase began with the armistice in 1918 and continued until the rise of Nazi Germany in 1933. During this period the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire in southwest Asia were constituted into separate states and placed under mandatory rule, British or French. These were endowed with more or less liberal institutions, each of the mandatory powers setting up regimes in its own image—republics in the French territories, constitutional monarchies in those under British mandate. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 867

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general pattern of colonial powers exporting institutional templates, matching material on how mandatory regimes imposed metropolitan political forms. — connects to: Pan-Arab political culture predates and outlasts colonial and state boundaries — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 32