The Rise of the State System, 1914-1950 is a chapter that reflects on the events defining the emergence of various states within the Middle East and parts of Northern Africa that were largely dominated by Arabs. It is a chapter that indicates the dominance of the European powers in trying to dominate the world at the expense of local populations. These historic events give insight into the struggles that nations had to go through in order to gain independence. The struggles were not in vain because most of the Middle East States gained their independence by the end of the Second World War, (in the 1950s) as discussed in this paper. This chapter indicates the events preceding and following the First World War. Apparently, it highlights that the World War 1 marked an end of subjugation of the Asian world by the Western countries (Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner 60). But, this was entirely not the case as the Ottoman Empire was the main power that fell apart because it was deemed a potential threat by Britain (Smart 301). Hence, in an attempt to remove the threat, Britain took advantage of the already strained relationships between the Ottoman Empire and the Arabs to sever all ties and fight against this empire. As new threats emerged, the Western countries found themselves adopting new strategies to increase their hegemony; hence, they signed beneficial treaties with their colonies. Britain was the most influential European power because it had a hand in Japan’s victory over Russia (Andersen et al. 60). This situation displays an ironic twist owing to the fact that Russia was part of the Allied forces (Chant 6). Nonetheless, the Turkish revolution and Egyptian nationalist movement were influential factors for the emergence of the First World War. The Muslims united and national boundaries had little significant to defining their identity; they were unified. In addition, the Allied forces signed a treaty with Husein to liberate some of the continents, and this was a frontier in the unison of the Arabs towards liberation (Andersen et al. 61-62). The reading clearly indicates the rebellion of the Asian and associated colonies of the Western powers. Hence, these suppressed states agreed to get into treaties with the European powers as ways of gradually gaining power and forming unions, for example, the World Zionist Organization (Andersen et al. 63). As the European powers sought to gain more areas over which to dominate, they got into disagreements leading to division, for example, the postwar division between Britain and France (Perry et al. 791). The two European powers had differing interests that steered subsequent liberations of the various states. In addition, growing hostility from the locals stimulated the process. Despite the fact that the Zionist argument was not influential and the Arabs’ nationalist idea was weak, the flame to achieve these causes drove these two nations to join the Allied forces in an attempt to gain some form of independence such as that associated with the Balfour declaration. After the First World War and with the segregation of the European powers, the local population resorted to joining forces in order to eliminate the enemies, who at