V predlagaemoy vashemu vnimaniyu rabote rassmatrivayutsya problemy politiki Velikobritanii na Blizhnem Vostoke v period s nachala Pervoy mirovoy voyny i do Lozannskoy mirnoy konferentsii, kotoraya stal final'nym akkordom v sozdanii "Britanskoy blizhnevostochnoy imperii". V issledovanii rassmatrivaetsya kak diplomatiya Velikobritanii i drugikh velikikh derzhav v gody voyny i pervye poslevoennye gody, tak i sam protsess prinyatiya resheniy britanskoy politicheskoy elitoy. Osoboe vnimanie udelyaetsya deyatel'nosti okkupatsionnykh i mandatnykh administratsiy v Mesopotamii, Transiordanii i Palestine, a takzhe roli Velikobritanii v formirovanii predposylok dlya blizhnevostochnogo konflikta.