PSCI211 - POL IN CONTEMP MID EAST

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
PSCI211 - POL IN CONTEMP MID EAST
Term
2018C
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
001
Section ID
PSCI211001
Meeting times
MW 1100AM-1200PM
Meeting location
STITELER HALL B21
Instructors
VITALIS, ROBERT
Description
This course is an introduction to the most prominent historical, cultural, institutional, and ideological features of Middle Eastern politics. Typical of the questions we shall address are why processes of modernization and economic change have not produced liberal democracies, why Islamic movements have gained enormous strength in some countries and not others, why conflicts in the region--between Israel and the Arabs, Iran and Iraq, or inside of Lebanon--have been so bitter and protracted; why the era of military coups was brought to an end but transitions to democracy have been difficult to achieve; why Arab unity has been so elusive and yet so insistent a theme; and why oil wealth in the Gulf, in the Arabian Peninsula, and in North Africa, has not produced industrialized or self-sustaining economic growth.
Course number only
211
Use local description
No