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Academic Year 2000/2001

Conflict in the Middle East
GOVT 325 FA

This course analyzes the types, causes, processes and forms of domestic and international political conflict, using the contemporary Middle East as a case study. It includes issues such as nationalism, ideology, religion, inter-Arab relations, the Palestinian problem, Iranian revolution and the Gulf War, as well as the Arab-Israeli dispute.

MAJOR READINGS

Shahram Chubin and Charles Tripp, IRAN AND IRAQ AT WAR, Westview, 1988. Don Peretz, INTIFADA: THE PALESTINIAN UPRISING. Westview, 1990 Goeffrey Kemp, THE CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST ARMS RACE, Carnegie Endowment Congressional Quarterly Inc., THE MIDDLE EAST, 7th edition, revised 1991 Jean Said Makdisi, BEIRUT FRAGMENTS: A WAR MEMOIR, Persea Books, 1990 William V. O'Brien, LAW AND MORALITY IN ISRAEL'S WAR WITH THE PLO Shaul Bakhash, THE REIGN OF THE AYATOLLAHS: IRAN AND THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTIO N Shibley Telhami, POWER AND LEADERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL BARGAINING: THE PATH TO THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS, Columbia, 1990

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Final examination, class participation will be stressed.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Students who have not taken GOVT155 should see the instructor about a prerequisite override. If the course is oversubscribed, preference will be given to students turned away at preregistration or in-semester registration who attend the first class. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS GOVT    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: GOVT155 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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