CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS

PSIR612

Course Code: PSIR612
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Doctorate Of Science

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Professor Banu Eligür

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

learn the contemporary Middle Eastern politics.
examine the state-society relations in the Middle East.
learn the problems among the Middle Eastern countries.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

This course analyses the contemporary Middle East politics in the context of state-society relationship and the disputes between the regional states. The course has three goals. The first one is to teach students the development of the state system in the contemporary Middle East. The second goal is to analyse the effects of Arab-Israeli conflict on the region. The third one is to analyse the contemporary problems in the Middle East in the context of urbanization, political Islamic movement, minorities, Palestinian problem and Arab Spring.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to Course: Geographical and Historical Place of Middle East
2^nd Week	Founding of the State System in Middle East
3^rd Week	Non-Arab Countries in Middle East and their Social Orders - Turkey, Iran and Israel
4^th Week	Arab Countries and their Social Orders
5^th Week	Arab-Israeli Conflict
6^th Week	Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
7^th Week	Arab-Israeli Peace Process
8^th Week	Urbanization and Socioeconomic Problems I
9^th Week	Urbanization and Socioeconomic Problems II
10^th Week	Political Islamist Movement I
11^th Week	Political Islamist Movement II
12^th Week	Palestinians in Between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hamas
13^th Week	Minorities
14^th Week	Arab Revolts and the Future of Middle East

Recommended or Required Reading

Jillian Schwedler and Deborah Gerner (eds.), Understanding the Contemporary Middle East 3rd ed. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008).
Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (New York: Warner Books, 1992).
Bernard Lewis, ?The Map of the Middle East: A Guide for the Perplexed,? The American Scholar, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Winter 1988-89), pp. 19-35.
Malcolm Yapp, The Making of the Modern Middle East, 1792-1923 (London: Longman, 1987), pp. 301-351.
William Cleveland, A History of the Modern Middle East 3rd ed. (Boulder: Westview, 2004).
Volker Perhess (ed.), Arab Elites, Negotiating the Politics of Change (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004).
Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal, Palestinians: The Making of a People (New York: Free Press, 1993).
Anita Shapira, Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 (Stanford University Press, 1999).
Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Arab-Zionist Conflict, 1881-1999 (New York: Knopf, 1999).
Michael Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Barry Rubin, Israel: A Short Introduction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012).
Fouad Ajami, The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967 (Cambridge University Press, 1984).
Asher Susser, ?The Decline of the Arabs,? Middle East Quarterly, Vol. X, No. 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 3-15.
Itamar Rabinovich, Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999).
Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004).
R. Stephen Humphreys, Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age (University of California Press, 1999).
David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some so Poor (New York: Norton, 1999).
United Nations Development Program, The Arab Human Development Report 2005, Executive Summary.
Fred Halliday, Nation and Religion in the Middle East (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2000).
Bernard Lewis, The Political Language of Islam (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).
Bernard Lewis, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003).
Oliver Roy, Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (London: Hurst, 2004)
Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Andrea Nusse, Muslim Palestine: The Ideology of Hamas (London: Routledge, 2002).
Yezid Sayigh, Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997).
Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-Dor (eds.), Minorities and the State in the Arab World (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1999).
James L. Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Fawaz A. Gerges, The End of America?s Moment? Obama and the Middle East (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Banu Eligür, ?`The Arab Spring?: Implications for U.S.-Israeli Relations, Israel Affairs Vol. 20 No. 3 (June 2014), ss. 281-301.
Robert O. Freedman, Israel and the United States: Six Decades of U.S.-Israeli Relations (CO: Boulder, Westview Press, 2012).
John R. Bradley, After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts (New York: Palgrave, 2012).
Steven A. Cook, The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Assignment	3	40
Project	1	60
Total(%)		100
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		100
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		0
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	7	98
Preparation for Final exam
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
Homework	3	30	90
Project	1	70	70
Total Work Load			300
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

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