PSCI253 - INTL POLITICS MIDD EAST

Status
O
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI253 - INTL POLITICS MIDD EAST
Term
2013A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
403
Section ID
PSCI253403
Meeting times
R 1030AM-1130AM
Meeting location
PSYCHOLOGY LAB C41
Instructors
CASTRO, GUZMAN
Description
This course will focus primarily on epidoes of external intervention by Great Powers in the politics of Middle Eastern states. We shall begin by examining the emergence of the Middle Eastern state system after the disappearance of the Ottoman Empire in the early part of the 20th century. This discussion will provide opportunities to develop key concepts in the study of international politics and will serve as crucial historical background. We shall then turn our attention to the primary concern of the course - a systematic consideration of the motives, operational results, and long-term implications of a number of important examples of intervention by Great Powers in the Middle East. Among the episodes to be considered will be British policies toward the end of World War I, in Palestine in the 1930s, and, along with the French, in Suez in 1956. Soviet intervention in the first Arab-Israeli war, in 1948, will be analyzed along with Soviet policies toward Egypt in the early 1970s. American intervention in Iran in 1953 and in the Gulf War in 1991 will also be examined.
Course number only
253
Cross listings
JWST253403
Use local description
No