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Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
SBU619 - Readings on the Middle East in World Politics II. SEMESTER 4 +0 7.5
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) PROF. DR. MURAT ERCAN
Mode of Delivery Face to face
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Prerequisites NO
Courses Recomended NO
Recommended Resources • Kemal İnat ve Burhanettin Duran, İran Yaptırımları, SETA Yayınları, İstanbul 2019.• William L Cleveland and Martin Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, 5th Edition, Westview Press, 2012 [Türkçesi, Modern Ortadoğu Tarihi, Çev: Mehmet Harmancı, Agora Kitap, 2008].• Kemal İnat ve Burhanettin Duran, İran Yaptırımları, SETA Yayınları, İstanbul 2019• John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, [Türkçesi: İsrail Lobisi ve Amerikan Dış Politikası, İstanbul: Küre Yayınları, 2009].• Tayyar Arı, Geçmişten Günümüze Ortadoğu, Alfa, İstanbul, 2004.• Davut Dursun, Ortadoğu Neresi, İnsan Yayınları, İstanbul 1995.• Abdullah Erboğa, Arap Baharı Sonrası Körfez Güvenliği ve Savunmacı Aktivizm, SETA, 07 Mart 2016.• Veysel Kurt, Orduların “Arap Baharı”na Etkisi, SETA, 21 Temmuz 2014 • Ali Balcı, Ortadoğu ve Postkolonyalizm, Pınar Yayınları, İstanbul 2018.
Work Placement NO
Aims of the Course

Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 The Position of the Middle East in World Politics: Strategic, Economic, and Religious Dimensions
Week - 2 Soviet and American Policies toward the Middle East during the Cold War
Week - 3 The Role of International Dynamics in the Palestinian Question
Week - 4 Arms Build-up Initiatives in the Middle East and Possible Security Risks
Week - 5 The Greater Middle East Project and Its Impact on Regional Dynamics
Week - 6 Internal Palestinian Dynamics and Obstacles to the Peace Process
Week - 7 The Persian Gulf as a Subsystem and Its Impact on Middle East Politics
Week - 8 Midterm Exam
Week - 9 The Impact of the Arab–Israeli Wars on Regional Stability
Week - 10 Regional and International Implications of the Iran–Iraq War
Week - 11 Turkey’s Middle East Policy
Week - 12 U.S. Middle East Policy
Week - 13 China’s and Russia’s Middle East Policies
Week - 14 Regional Policies of Middle Eastern Countries-Final Exam

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