PSIR318 IMPERIALISM AND M.MODERN ME
| Course Code: | 3540318 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Political Science and International Relations |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- The students are expected to learn definitions of imperialism, theories of imperialism, and developments from colonialism to imperialism.
- Modern Middle East history from the 19th century to the 21st
- Struggle for political and economic hegemony among the Great Powers of Europe
- Dutch, British, French, Russian and US policies
- Foreign intervention in shaping of the modern Middle East
- Middle East wars
- Oil and its effecys in world economy and history
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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.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Students learn to apply political science and international relations theories in cases in Middle East history
- The course helps students in working in area studies
- supplements students with lknowledge in a specific area