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Politics of China: Middle East
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The graduate program in politics offers two degree programs leading to the Master of Arts in political science and Doctor of Philosophy in political science. The graduate program in political science is distinguished by methodological emphasis on analytical case study, including comparative case study rather than abstract mathematical modeling or statistical analysis. Substantive emphasis is on the politics of democratic and democratizing regimes. The graduate curriculum emphasizes linkages among the patterns of American political development, contemporary American politics, and the politics of other developed and developing democratic systems. The graduate curriculum ... addresses the advanced industrial democracies of Western Europe, the democratizing states of Eastern Europe, and the international political, economic, and military-security relations among these states. PhD students receive training in each of the major subfields of political science, including qualitative research methods, through graduate-level "field seminars."
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The core series of lectures and seminars in this course will focus on the comparative politics of the Middle East. The approach will be thematic, deploying examples from across the Arab world, Israel, Turkey and Iran in order to explore concepts of the state, conflict, political reform and economic change in the region. This core series will be supplemented by a set of mini-courses on specialised themes: the Iranian revolution, civil society in the Arab world, political economy in the Gulf States, and human rights in the Middle East.
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Callahan’s research examines the international politics of East Asia, including Chinese foreign policy and the transnational relations that join East Asia, Southeast Asia and Euro-America. He is interested in exploring the interface between theory and practice in international politics: how East Asian politics needs to be better theorised, on the one hand, and how the Chinese experience calls into question the foundations of IR theory, on the other. Callahan’s most recent books are ‘Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations’ (Minnesota, 2004), and ‘Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia’ (Routledge, 2006). He has published articles in many journals, including International Organization, Theory & Event, Asian Survey, Alternatives and the Journal of Strategic Studies.
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Fall 2005 This course aims to introduce students to the major questions of Middle East politics, with an emphasis on dated issues. While the course focuses on the Arab world, it will ... take into account the politics of Israel, Turkey, and Iran. An important aspect of the course will be to situate the Middle East in the context of global politics, with an emphasis on the role of the United States in the region. The course will cover the political histories of the states in the region, and political dynamics and changes; it will also provide a theoretical, political, and conceptual framework that can facilitate analysis of the political changes and developments in the region.
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This course will introduce students to the politics of the Middle East and North Africa. It will systematically compare the process of state formation of different types of regimes in selected countries of the region following the break-up of the Ottoman Empire. Prerequisite: Government 4 or permission of the instructor. Dist: SOC or INT; WCult: NW.
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Candidates will be expected to show knowledge of the politics of the Middle East with regard to their political institutions, political sociology, and political economy. The following topics may be considered: the emergence of the state system in the modern Middle East; the influence of colonialism and nationalism in its development; the military in state and politics; party systems and the growth of democratic politics; the politics of religion; women in the political sphere; the influence of major inter-state conflicts and external factors on internal politics. The Middle East is taken to comprise Iran, Israel, Turkey, and the Arab States.
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