POLITICAL TRAJECTORIES OF IRAQ, SYRIA & LEBANON (1920-2020) (ME3073)

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This course explores the modern political history of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and how local as well as regional and international developments regularly connected them or had different political echoes and implications in each of them. To Explain that, the course revisits eight historical moments (between 1920 and 2020) and analyzes their events and dynamics in the three countries.

Code: 
ME3073
Name: 
POLITICAL TRAJECTORIES OF IRAQ, SYRIA & LEBANON (1920-2020)
Discipline: 
ME (Middle East Studies)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
College Level=Junior OR College Level=Senior
Co-requisites: 
None
Equivalencies: 
POLITICAL TRAJECTORIES OF IRAQ, SYRIA & LEBANON (1920-2020) (HI3073)

Learning Outcomes

  1. To understand the political developments in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon through a comparative approach.  
  2. To learn how to analyze the political context in the Middle East within the international context. 
  3. To understand the dynamics of sectarianism and identity politics in divided societies, leading to civil wars, and exposed to external challenges, invasions, and interventions.

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