Middle east

Posted: December 10th, 2013

write this in question and answer format. It isnt a paper, its a assignment.

Please pick ONE of the TOPICS to write about. You must use the book required for this course. Book Is:

Bickerton, Ian and Carla Klausner. A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Prentice Hall, Fourth Edition), 2002, ISBN 0-19-090303-5.

Readings:

(1) Bickerton and Klausner, pages 1-10.
(2) Lewis, Bernard. “The West and the Middle East.” Foreign Affairs 76:1 (1997).

Topic 1 for discussion: How successful was Ottoman modernization (or Westernization)?
Why? How successful were the British and French as mandatory powers (whether success is defined by their putative or actual aims)? Why?

Topic II: The Arab Cold War; Turkey and Iran up to 1979
Readings:
(1) Kramer, Martin. “Arab Nationalism: Mistaken Identity.” Daedalus 122:3 (1993).
(2) Bickerton and Klausner, pages 118-121.

Topics for discussion: To what extent did the Middle East take part in the Cold War? Why did Pan-Arabism or Arab nationalism lose popularity?