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IRS 354 Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Anglo-American University
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Primary Subject Area: Political Science
Instruction in: English
Transcript Source: TBD
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of the history of the Middle East and basic familiarity with the region.
DESCRIPTION
LEARNING OUTCOMES
* Understand current issues in the Middle East with worldwide impact.
COURSE CONTENT
The course focuses on the key political, economic and social developments that shaped the Arab world from the colonial entrance of Europe to the region heralded by Napoleon?s invasion of Egypt until the explosion of social discontent often described as the Arab Spring in 2011. Rather than a year-by-year historical excurse to the region complemented with the memorization of key data the course is conceptualized as a tool to understand the contemporary Arab society in its complexity. The course will explore the introduction of European political ideology to the Arab region and its re-interpretation to fit the regional context that resulted in particular mixture of traditional and modern ideas of how to organize a society. The ongoing struggle between tradition and modernity, between authority and rebellion, between stability and revolution and between dreams and reality is the underlining recurrent theme of the course. This struggle could be found behind every single phenomena usually studied with regards to the Middle East: colonialism, nationalism, pan-Arabism, Islam and politics, oil, wars of conquest and of liberation and finally Arab social upheavals of (but not only) 2011.
*New course code is effective as of Summer 2015. Old course code for this course was POL 440.
* Understand current issues in the Middle East with worldwide impact.
COURSE CONTENT
The course focuses on the key political, economic and social developments that shaped the Arab world from the colonial entrance of Europe to the region heralded by Napoleon?s invasion of Egypt until the explosion of social discontent often described as the Arab Spring in 2011. Rather than a year-by-year historical excurse to the region complemented with the memorization of key data the course is conceptualized as a tool to understand the contemporary Arab society in its complexity. The course will explore the introduction of European political ideology to the Arab region and its re-interpretation to fit the regional context that resulted in particular mixture of traditional and modern ideas of how to organize a society. The ongoing struggle between tradition and modernity, between authority and rebellion, between stability and revolution and between dreams and reality is the underlining recurrent theme of the course. This struggle could be found behind every single phenomena usually studied with regards to the Middle East: colonialism, nationalism, pan-Arabism, Islam and politics, oil, wars of conquest and of liberation and finally Arab social upheavals of (but not only) 2011.
*New course code is effective as of Summer 2015. Old course code for this course was POL 440.
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