PSIR318 IMPERIALISM AND M.MODERN ME
| Course Code: |
3540318 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
| Department: |
Political Science And International Relations |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
This course introduces students to history of imperial organisation, state formation and imperial interventions in the making of the modern Middle East. In particular focus will be concentrated on four periods : first, the formal ‘great power’ post-Ottoman divisions of the region, the peace treaties and settlement treaties, out of which the new state order was built. The geo-politics prior to and in preparation of the Paris peace treaties, Sevres and later Lausanne will be scrutinised. Second, the geo-politics of resource access (oil) and demographic movements during and throughout the League of Nations period, up to and including the second world war will be examined. Third, the contemporaneous rise of Arab and Jewish nationalism and their imbrication in imperial and Cold War order will be studied. And finally the tensions of confessional politics in the post-Cold War order, focusing on Israel-Palestine, Iraq and Iran will be used to assess more recent expressions of imperial interventions. Whilst principally a course in international history, regular reference will be made to theories of imperialism, critical political economy and historical sociology.
