POL S 380
Politics in the Middle East
Winter 2023
Readings
- Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera, eds. Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-first Century (Oakland, California: California University Press, 2021)
- James L. Gelvin, ed. The Contemporary Middle Eat in An Age of Upheaval (Stanford, Californian: California University Press, 2021)
- Omina El Shakry, ed. Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East (Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
- Michele Penner Angrist, Ed. Politics & Society in the Contemporary Middle East, 2nd ed. (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013)
- Fred Halliday, “Orientalism and its Critics,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1993), 145-163
- Bernard Lewis, Islam and the West (Oxford; Oxford University press, 1993), chapter 6
- Jean Allain, “Orientalism and International Law: Middle East as the underclass of International Legal Order”, Leiden Journal of International Law, No. 17 (2004), 391-404
- A.L. Macfie, Orientalism (London; New York; Toronto: Pearson, 2002)
- Don Peretz, The Middle East Today, 6th ed. (Westport: PRAEGER) pp. 134-158
- Eugene L. Rogan, “The Emergence of the Middle East into the Modern State System”, in Louise Fawcett, ed., International relations of the Middle East (Oxford &New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)
- Brubaker, R. "Religion and nationalism: Four Approaches." Nations and Nationalism 18.1 (2012): 2-20
- Saleh, Alam, and James Worrall. "Between Darius and Khomeini: Exploring Iran's National Identity Problematique." National Identities 17.1 (2015): 73-97
- John L. Esposito, “Nationalism,” in Islam and Politics, John L. Esposito, 4th ed. (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1998) in Mahdavi, ed. Contemporary Middle East, pp.96-118
- James Clark, “Frequent Incompatibilities: Ethnic and Religious Diversity and the Nations of the Middle East,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. XXII, No. 1&2 (2002), 36-42
- Ibrahim Abu-Rabi, ed., The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam (Pluto Press & UoAPress, 2010)
- A. Bayat, “Islamism and Social Movement Theory,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 6 (2005)891-908
- Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Stanford University Press, 2016)
- A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (Stanford Univ. Press, 2017). Sheila Carapico, “Civil Society,” in Angrist, Ed. Politics & Society
- Augusts Richard Norton, “The Puzzle of Political Reform in the Middle East,” in Louise Fawcett, ed., International relations of the Middle East
- Michael C. Hudson, “The Political Culture Approach to Arab Democratization: The case for Bringing It Back In, Carefully”, in R. Brynen, B. Korany & P. Noble, eds. Political Liberalization & Democratization in the Arab World: Theoretical Perspectives
- Brynen, Bahgat Korany & Paul Noble, eds. Political Liberalization & Democratization in the Arab World: Theoretical Perspectives
- Nathan Brown and Emad El-Din Shahin, eds. The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East: regional politics and external policies (London and New York: Routledge, 2010)
- Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, eds. The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future (Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 2010)
- Hossein Mahdavy, "Patterns and Problems of Economic Development in Rentier States: The Case of Iran". In M. A. Cook, ed. Studies in the Economic History of the Middle East (Routledge, 1970), 428–467
- Beverley Milton-Edwards, Contemporary Politics in the Middle East, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: polity Press,
- Tropes, Vol VII, No 2 (2020): 138–174. 139
- Giacomo Luciani, “Oil and Political Economy in the International Relations of the Middle East,” in Louise Fawcett, ed. International Relations of the Middle East (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press,
- Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah’s Man: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Wiley & Sons Canada, 2008)
- Ervand Abrahamian, The Coup: 1953, The CIA, and the Roots of Modern US-Iranian Relations (The New Press, 2013)
- J. Sowers, “Environmental Activism in the Middle East and North Africa,” in Harry Verhoeven, ed. Environmental politics in the Middle East: local struggles, global connections (Oxford University Press,
- ISBN 2020072008
- Tariq Ali, “Tortured Civilizations: Islam and the West,” in Colin Mooers, ed. The New Imperialists: Ideologies and Empire (Oxford: One world, 2006)
- Mahdavi, Mojtaba. 2015. “A Postcolonial Critique of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the Middle East." Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs - Centre for Strategic Research, vol. XX, no. 1 (Spring): 7-36
- Michael C. Hudson, “The United Stets in the Middle East”, in Louise Fawcett, ed. International Relations of the Middle East (Oxford; new York: Oxford University Press, 2005)
- Immanuel Wallenstein, “The Curve of American Power”, New Left Review, No. 40 (2006), 77-94
- Michael Mann, “The First Failed Empire of the twenty-First Century,” in American Power in the 21st Century, David Held & M. Koenig-Archibugi, eds. (Cambridge; Polity Press, 2004), 52-82
- Ellen Meiksins Wood, “Democracy as ideology of Empire,” in The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire, Colin Mooers, ed. (Oxford: Oneworld: 2006), pp. 9-23
- Rashid Khalidi, “Resurrecting Empire,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2005), 1-5
- M. Olimat, China and the Middle East: From Silk Road to Arab Spring (Routledge, 2012), 6-38
- Houlden, Gordon, and Noureddin M. Zaamout "A New Great Power Engages with the Middle East: China’s Middle East Balancing Approach." University of Alberta, 2019, pp 1-10
- C. Dale Walton and Colin S. Gray, “The Nuclear Age: Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-first Century,” in Strategy in the Contemporary World, John Baylis et. al. eds. (Oxford University Press, 2007), 210-226
- CIRS, The Nuclear Question in the Middle East, Summary Report No.4, Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, 2012
- Mustafa Kibaroglu, “Good for the Shah, Banned for the Mullahs: The West and Iran’s Quest for Nuclear Power,” The Middle East Journal, Vol. 60, No. 2 (2006), 207-232
- Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2002. “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others.” American Anthropologist 104, No. 3: 783-790
- Valentine M. Moghadam, “Islamic Feminism and its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the Debate”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 27, No. 4 (2002) in Mahdavi, ed. Contemporary Middle East, 403-430
- Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Vol. 28, No. 2. 2008
- Beverley Milton-Edwards, Contemporary Politics in the Middle East, 2nd ed. (polity Press, 2006)
- Valentine M. Moghadam ed., From patriarchy to empowerment: women’s participation, movements, and rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007)
- R. Quinn Mecham, “From the ashes of virtue, a promise of light: the transformation of political Islam in Turkey,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2004), 339-358
- Studies, Vol. 41, No. 3 (May 2005), 351-372
- Eevand Abrahamian, The Coup: 1953, The CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.–Iran Relations (New York: The New Press, 2013)
- Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah’s men: an American coup and the roots of Middle East terror (Hoboken: Wiley & Sons, 2003)
- Mahdavi, Mojtaba. “Postrevolutionary Iran: Resisting global and regional hegemony.” In T. Ismael and G. Perry, eds. International Relations of the Middle East Today: Subordination and After. Routledge, 2014, pp. 141-173
- Mehrzad Boroujerdi and Koroush Rahimkhani, Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook (Syracuse University Press, 2018)
- Haggai Ram, Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession (Stanford Univ. Press, 2009)
- Anoushirvan Ehteshami, “The Foreign Policy of Iran, “ in Raymond Hinnebusch & Anoushirvan Ehteshami, eds. The Foreign Policies of the Middle East States, 2nd ed. (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014), pp. 261-288
- Abboud, Samer Nassif (2018). Syria: Hot Spots in Global Politics. Second Edition (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2018), pp 1-16
- Yassin-Kassab, Robin, and Leila Al-Shami (2016). “Syria Dismantled,” in Burning Country: Syrians In Revolution and War (London, UK: Pluto Press, 2016), pp. 222-248
- Augustus Richard Norton, Hezbollah (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)
- Roger Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012)
- B. Olav Utvik, “Hizb al-Wasat and the Potential for Change in Egyptian Islamism,” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3, (2005), 293-306
- Charles Smith, “The Arab-Israeli Conflict,” in Louise Fawcett, ed. International relations of the Middle East, 4th ed. Chapter 12
- ISBN 1440729206
- Avi Shlaim, “The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process,” in Louise Fawcett, ed. International relations of the Middle East, 4th ed. Chapter 13
- Clive Jones, “The Foreign Policy of Israel,” in Raymond Hinnebusch & Anoushirvan Ehteshami, eds. The Foreign Policies of the Middle East States, 2nd ed. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014), pp. 289-313
- Khaled Hroub, Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide (London: Pluto Press, 2006)
- A. Knudsen, “Crescent and Sword: the Hamas enigma,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 8 (2005)
- Madawi Al-Rasheed, A History of Saudi Arabia (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- Thomas Juneau, “Iran’s policy towards the Houthis in Yemen: a limited return on a modest investment,” International Affairs 92: 3 (2016) 647–663
- Fawaz Gerges, The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
- Marc Owen Jones, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), introduction
- Lynch, eds. The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), introduction
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- POL S 380 LEC-B02: Politics in the Middle East · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗2025
- 2023-Winter-POL-S-380-LECTURE-B1 ↗2023
- Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.