PSCI1440 - International Relations of the Middle East

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
203
Title (text only)
International Relations of the Middle East
Term
2023C
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
203
Section ID
PSCI1440203
Course number integer
1440
Meeting times
R 12:00 PM-12:59 PM
Meeting location
DRLB 4C8
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Sumaya Malas
Robert Vitalis
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
1440
Use local description
No