Winter term 2007
Political Science
Political Science GS POLS 6515 3.0
The Making of the modern Middle East. State, Economy and Society
Course Instructor:
Professor: Sabah Alnasseri
Office Location/Hours:
Ross S627
Fridays: 12.30-14.00
E-mail:
alnaseri@yorku.ca
Telephone:
30089
Time and Location
Vari Hall 3005
Fridays: 14.30-17.30
Week of Jan 9
Introduction. No Readings
Week of Jan 16
Part I: Histories and realities of the Making
Readings
- Compulsory
- Beinin, Joel 2002: late capitalism and the reformation of the working classes in the Middle East, in: Gershoni, Israel/Erdem, Hakan/Woköck, Ursula (ed.), Histories of the modern Middle East, London, ISBN: 1-58826-049-6, pp. 113-133, BOR.
- Hopkins, Nicholas 1988: Class and the state in rural arab communities, in: Dawisha, Adees/Zartman, I. William, 1988: Beyond coercion. The durability of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4149-8., pp. 239-259, BOR
- Kandil, Magda 1999: Toward a theory of international labor migration, In: Tessler, Mark (ed.) 1999: Area studies and social science: strategies for understanding Middle East politics, Bloomington, ISBN: 0-253-21282-0, pp. 81-101, BOR
- Recommended
- Beinin, Joel/Lockman, Zachary 1988: Workers on the Nile, London, ISBN: 1-85043-076-4, BOR.
- Batatu, Hanna, 2004: The Old Social Classes & the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq, Saqi Books, ISBN: 0863565204, BOR
- Beinin, Joel 2001: Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East, Cambridge, ISBN: 0-521-62903-9, BOR
- Drori, Israel 2000: The seam line: Arab workers and Jewish managers in the Israeli textile industry, California, ISBN: 0-8047-3787-8, BOR
Important Dates
Jan 18: Last date to enroll without the permission of the course director.
Week of Jan 23
Gender
Readings
- Compulsory
- Kandiyoti Deniz (ed.) 1991: Introduction, in: Kandiyoti (ed.), Women, Islam and the State, Philadelphia, ISBN: 0-87722-786-1, pp. 1-21; Ch. 2 Turkey; Ch. 3 Iran; Ch. 7 Iraq and Lebanon; Ch. 8 Egypt; Ch. 9 Yemen, OB
- Kandiyoti, Deniz 1997: Women, Islam, and the state, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 185-193, OB
- Emmett, Ayala H., 1996: Our Sisters' Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence, University of Michigan Press , ISBN: 047210733X, BOR
- Suha Sabbagh (ed.), 1996: Arab Women between defiance and restraint, New York, ISBN: 156656199X 1566561876, BOR
- Doumato, Eleanor Abdella/Posusney, Marsha Pripstein (ed.) 2003: Women and globalization in the Arab Middle East. Gender, economy and society, London, ISBN: 1-58826-134-4, BOR
- Doumani, Beshara (ed.), 2003: Family History in the Middle East, New York, ISBN: 0-7914-5680-3, Part I: Family and household, PII: gender and property, PIII: Family and Islamic law, PIV: Family as a discourse, BOR
- Recommended
- Parvin, Paydar, 1995: Women and the Political Process in Twentieth Century Iran. Cambridge, ISBN: 052159572X, BOR
- Najmabadi, Afsaneh 2002: The gender of modernity, in: Gershoni, Israel/Erdem, Hakan/Woköck, Ursula (ed.), Histories of the modern Middle East, London, ISBN: 1-58826-049-6, pp. 75-91, BOR
- Al-Sayyid-Marsot, Afaf Lutfi, 1989: Women and social change, in: Sabagh, Georges (ed.), The modern economic and social history of the Middle East in its world context, New York, ISBN: 0 521 37351 4, pp. 112-129, BOR
- Badra, Margot 1992: From consciousness to activism: Feminist politics in early twentieth century Egypt, in: Spagnolo, John P. (ed.), Problems of the modern Middle East in historical perspective, Oxford, ISBN: 0-86372-164-8, pp. 27-48, BOR
- Fawaz, Leila 1992: Women and conflict in Lebanon, in: Spagnolo, John P. (ed.), Problems of the modern Middle East in historical perspective, Oxford, ISBN: 0-86372-164-8, pp. 63-77, BOR
- Hammami, Rema 1997: From immodesty to collaboration: Hamas, the women’s movement, and national identity in the Intifada, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 194-210, OB
- Slymovics, Susan 1997: “Hassiba Ben Bouali, if you could see our Algeria”: Women and public space in Algeria, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 211-219, OB
- Hoodfar, Homa 1997: Devices and desires: Population policy and gender roles in the Islamic Republic, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 220-233, OB
- Hale. Sondra 1997: The women of Sudan’s National Islamic Front, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 234-249, OB
- Ahmed, Leila 1992: Women and Gender in Islam, Yale, ISBN: 0300055838, BOR
- Badran, Margot 1995: Feminists, Islam and Nation, Princeton, ISBN: 0-691-02605-X, BOR
- Zuhur Sherifa, 1992. Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt, ISBN:0791409279, New York, BOR
- Bodman, Herbert and Nayereh Tohidi.(eds.)Women in Muslim Societies. (London:Boulder:1998). ISBN: 1-55587-578-5, BOR
- Meriwether Margaret and Judith Tucker (eds.) Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East, (Boulder, 1999), ISBN: 0813321018, BOR
- Afshar Haleh Islam and Feminisms: An Iranian Case-Study. (1998), Basingstoke, ISBN 03337332X, BOR
- Abu-Lughod Lila (ed) 1998: Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East.(Princton University Press:1998), ISBN: 0-691-05792-3, BOR
- Reina, Lewis, 1996: Gendering orientalism: race, femininity and representation, London, ISBN: 0-415-12490-5, BOR
- Hiltermann, Joost R., 1993: Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories, Princeton, ISBN: 0-691-02480-4, BOR
Important Dates
Jan 26: Last date to enroll with the permission of the course director.
Week of Jan 30
Imperialism and colonialism
Readings
- Compulsory
- Hansen, Bent 1989: Capital and lopsides development in Egypt under British occupation, in: Sabagh, Georges (ed.), 1989: The modern economic and social history of the Middle East in its world context, New York, ISBN: 0 521 37351 4, pp. 66-88, BOR
- Mitchell, Timothy, 1991: Colonising Egypt, Berkeley, ISBN: 0520075684, Ch.2: Enframing
- Kingston, Paul W. T. 1996: Britain and the politics of modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958, Cambridge, ISBN: 0-521-56346-1, BOR
- Kedourie, Elie 1987: England and the Middle East. The destruction of the Ottoman Empire 1914-1921, Boulder, ISBN: 0-7201-1882-4, BOR
- Recommended
- Mitchell, Timothy, 2002: Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity, Berkeley; Univ. of California Pr.,ISBN: 0520232623, BOR
- Kedourie, Elie 2004: The Chatham House Version, Chicago, ISBN: 1-56663-561-6
- Adelson, Roger 1995: London and the Invention of the Middle East, New Haven, ISBN: 0-300-06094-7, BOR
- Owen, Roger 2002: From liberalism to liberal imperialism, in: Gershoni, Israel/Erdem, Hakan/Woköck, Ursula (ed.), Histories of the modern Middle East, London, ISBN: 1-58826-049-6, pp. 95-112, BOR
Week of Feb 6
Nationalism and other grand ideologies
Readings
- Compulsory
- Dawisha, Adees 2003: Arab nationalism, New Jersey, ISBN: 0-691-10273-2., Ch. 1 Defining arab nationalism, ch. 3 Sati’ al-Husri’s Theory of Arab Nationalism, BOR
- Khalidi, Rashid/Anderson, Lisa/Muslih, Muhammad/Simon, Reeva S. (ed.), 1991: The origins of Arab nationalism, New York, ISBN: 0-231-07434-4, Ch. 1 The origins of Arab nationalism (C. Ernst Dawn), Ch. 2 The young Turks and the Arabs before the revolution 1908 (M. Sükrü Hanioglu), CK
- Recommended
- Alnasrawi, Abbas, 1991. Arab Nationalism, Oil, and the political economy of dependency, New York, ISBN: 0-313-27610-2, Ch. 1, BOR
- Farah, Tawic (ed.)1987: Pan-Arabism and Arab Nationalism, ISBN: 0-8133-0377-X, BOR
- Kamrava, Mehran 2005: The Modern Middle East, Berkeley, ISBN: 0-520-24150-9, pp. 72-83 (Zionism), OB
- Avineri, Shlomo 1981: The making of modern Zionism, New York, ISBN: 978-0465043286, BOR
Week of Feb 13
Part II: Politics, Polity and Policy: The making of nation-state and national bourgeoisies I
Readings
- Compulsory
- Zubaida, Sami 1993: Islam, the people and the state, London, ISBN: 1-85043-734-3, Ch. 6, OB
- Owen, Roger 2004: State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Chapter 1, OB
- Halliday, Fred 2005, The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology, Cambridge, ISBN-10: 0521592402, Ch. 3, OB
- Kamrava, Mehran 2005: The modern Middle East, Berkeley, pp. 283-316, OB
- Recommended
- Keyder, Caglar 1987: State and Class in Turkey, London Verso, ISBN: 0860918777, BOR
- Fred Halliday and Hamza Alavi (eds) 1988: State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1988, ISBN: 0853457344, BOR
- Adees/Zartman, I. William, 1988: Beyond coercion. The durability of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4149-8., pp. 260-275, BOR
- Zubaida, Sami 1997a: Is Iran an islamic state?, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 103-119, OB
- Korany, Bahgat 1987: Alien and beseiged set here to stay: the contradictions of the arab territorial state, in: Salame, Ghassan (ed.), 1987, The foundations of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4143-9, pp. 47-74, BOR
- Harik Iliya 1987: The origins of arab state system in: Salame, Ghassan (ed.), 1987, The foundations of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4143-9, pp. 19-46, BOR
Week of Feb 12 - 6
Reading Week. (No classes.)
Week of Feb 20
State II
Readings
- Compulsory
- Hazem Beblawi, "The Rentier State in the Arab World," in: Hazem Beblawi and Giacomo Luciani, eds., The Rentier State, 49-62, BOR
- Ayubi, Nazih, 1995: Over-Stating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East, New York, ISBN: 1 85043 827 7, Chapter 1 (The Middle East and the stae debate) 1-37, BOR
- Hinnebusch, Raymond A. 2003, The international politics of the Middle East, Manchester. ISBN: 0719053463, CH. 4, OB
- Recommended
- Beblawi, Hazem 1987: The rentier state in the arab world, in: Hazem Beblawi and Giacomo Luciani, eds., 1987, The Rentier State, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4144-7., pp. 49-62, BOR
- Luciani, Giacomo 1987: Allocation vs. Production states, in: Hazem Beblawi and Giacomo Luciani, eds., 1987, The Rentier State, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4144-7., pp. 63-82, BOR
- Joffe’, George H. 1997: Disputes over state boundaries in the Middle East and North Africa, in: Guazzone, Laura (ed.), The Middle East in global change, London, ISBN: 0-333-67079-5, pp. 58-94, BOR
- Kemal Karpat, "The Ottoman Ethnic and Confessional Legacy in the Middle East," in Milton Esman and Itamar Rabinovich, eds., 1988, Ethnicity, Pluralism and the State in the Middle East, Cornell Univ. ISBN: 0801420016 35-53, CK
- Salame’, Ghassan (ed.) 1987: The foundations of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4143-9, BOR
Week of Feb 27
Political Regimes
Readings
- Compulsory
- Kamrava, Mehran 2005: The modern Middle East, Berkeley, 317-330, OB
- Hinnebusch, Raymond A. 1988: Political parties in the arab state, in: Dawisha/Zartman (ed.), pp. 35-60, BOR
- Zartman, William 1988: Opposition as support of the state, in: Dawisha, Adees/Zartman, I. William, 1988: Beyond coercion. The durability of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4149-8., pp. 61-87, BOR
- Recommended
- Long, David E./Reich, Bernhard (ed.) 2002: The government and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Boulder, ISBN: 0-8133-3972-3, BOR
- Tachau, Frank (ed.) 1994: Political parties of the Middle East and North Africa, ISBN: 0-313-26649-2, BOR
- Dawisha, Adeed 1988: Arab regimes: Legitimacy and foreign policy, in: Dawisha, Adees/Zartman, I. William, 1988: Beyond coercion. The durability of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4149-8., pp. 260-275, BOR
Important Dates
Mar 2: At least 15% of grade must be released to students
Week of Mar 6
Political Thought
Readings
- Compulsory
- Hourani, Albert 1983: Arabic thought in the liberal age 1798-1939, Cambridge, ISBN 0521274230, BOR
- Ahmad, Zaid 2005: Ibn Khaldün’s approach in civilisational studies, in: Campanini, Massimo (ed.), 2005: Sudies on Ibn Khaldün, Milano, ISBN: 88-7699-017-8., pp. 101-122, CK
- Jadaane, Fahmi 1987: Notions of the state in contemporary arab-islamic writings, in: Salame, Ghassan (ed.), 1987, The foundations of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4143-9, pp. 112-148, BOR
- Recommended
- Bensaid, Said 1987: Al-watan and al-umma in contemporary arab used, in: Salame, Ghassan (ed.), 1987, The foundations of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4143-9, pp. 149-174, BOR
- Salame, Ghassan 1987: ‘Strong’ and ‘Weak’ states, a qualified return to the Muqaddimah, in: Salame, Ghassan (ed.), 1987, The foundations of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4143-9 , pp. 205-240, BOR
- Butterworth, Charles E. 1987: State and authority in arabic political thought, in: Salame, Ghassan (ed.), 1987, The foundations of the arab state, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4143-9, pp. 91-111, BOR
Important Dates
Mar 9: Last day to drop winter courses without receiving a final grade.
Week of Mar 13
International Politics, Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
Readings
- Compulsory
- Louise Fawcett (ed) 2004: International Relations of the Middle East, Introduction, pages 1-13. , ISBN: 0199269637, 2004, Oxford, OB
- Raymond Hinnebusch, “The Politics of Identity in Middle East International Relations” in Louise Fawcett (ed) International Relations of the Middle East, pages 151-171, OB
- Hinnebusch, Raymond A. 2003, The international politics of the Middle East, Manchester. ISBN: 0719053463, Introduction; Ch. 1&2 (International Politics); Ch. 5&6 (Foreign Policy), OB
- Raymond Hinnebusch/Anoushiravan Ehteshami (ed.), 2002: The foreign policies of Middle East states, Boulder. ISBN: 1588260208, Ch. 1, 2 &3; Case studies Ch. 5-14, OB
- Fred Halliday, 2005, The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology, Cambridge, ISBN-10: 0521592402, Introduction; Ch. 2&3 Concepts; OB
- Eugene L. Rogan, “The Emergence of the Middle East into the Modern State System” in Louise Fawcett (ed) International Relations of the Middle East, pages 17-39, OB
- Volbjorn, Morten 2004: “Culture blind and culture blindes”: Images of the Middle Eastrn conflicts in International Relations, in: Jung, Dietrich (ed.), The Middle East and Palestine: Global politics and regional conflict, Hampshire, ISBN: 1-4039-6414-9, pp. 39-78, CK
- Recommended
- Michael C. Hudson (ed) 1998: Middle East Dilemma: The Politics and Economics of Arab Integration, New York, Columbia University Press, 1998, Chapter 1, “Arab Integration: An Overview”, ISBN: 0231111398, BOR
- Brown, L. Carl 1984: International Politics and the Middle East, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1984, ISBN: 1850430004, pages 3-18, BOR
- Hadar, Leon 2005: Sandstorm: policy failure in the Middle East, ISBN: 1-4039-6724-5, BOR
- Ahmed Gomaa, 1977, The Foundation of the League of Arab States., Longman, ISBN: 058278073X, BOR
- Korany, Bahgat 1991: The foreign policies of Arab states : the challenge of change, in: Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki [et al.], Boulder 1991. ISBN: 0813308747, BOR
Week of Mar 20
Part III: Capital in the making Political Economy
Readings
- Compulsory
- Luxemburg, Rosa 1931: Accumulation of Capital, Ch. 30: http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/ch30.htm
- Owen, Roger and Pamuk, Sevket. 1998, A History of the Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century. London: I.B. Tauris, ISBN: 1860642764, Ch. 3 & Epilogue, OB
- Nitzan, Jonathan/Bichler, Shimshom 2002: The global political economy of Israel, London, Ch. 5: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/8/
- Kamrava, Mehran 2005: The modern Middle East, Berkeley, Ch. 8, OB
- Makdisi, Samir 1988: Economic interdependence and national sovereignty, in: Luciani, Giacomo/Salame’, Ghassan (ed.), 1988: The politics of arab integration, London, ISBN: 0-7099-4148-X, pp. 111-140, BOR
- Giacomo Luciani, “Oil and Political Economy of the Middle East”, in Louise Fawcett (ed), 2005, International Relations of the Middle East, New York, ISBN: 0199269637, pp. 105-129, OB
- Waterbury, John 1992: The heart of the matter?, in: Haggard, Stephen/Kaufman Robert R. 1992: The politics of economci adjustment, New Jersey, ISBN: 0-691-00394-7, pp. 182-217, CK
- Recommended
- Medani, Khalid 1997: Funding Fundamentalism: The political economy of an islamic state, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 166-177, OB
- Issawi, Charles: The Middle East Economy: Decline and Recovery, Chapter 1, “The Modern Middle East in the World Context: An Historical View”, Markus Wiener Pub., ISBN: 1-55876-102-0, BOR
- Drori, Israel 2000: The seam line: Arab workers and Jewish managers in the Israeli textile industry, California, ISBN: 0-8047-3787-8, BOR
- Alnasrawi, Abbas, 1991. Arab Nationalism, Oil, and the political economy of dependency, New York, ISBN: 0-313-27610-2, BOR
- Shafik, Nemat (ed.) 1998: Prospects for Middle Eastern and North African economies, ISBN: 0-312-17633-3, BOR
- Handoussa, Heba (ed.) 1997: Economic transition in the Middle East. Global challenges and adjustment strategies, Cairo, ISBN: 977 424 428 1, BOR
- Chaudhry, Kiren Aziz1997: The price of wealth. Economies and institutions in the Middle East, London, ISBN: 0-8014-3164-6, BOR
- Shafik, Nemat (ed.) 1998: Economic challenges facing Middle Eastern and Noth African conutries, London, ISBN: 0-333-71399-0, BOR
- Ayubi, Nazih N. (ed.) 1995: Distant neighbours. The political economy of relations between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa, Reading, ISBN: 0 86372 181 3, BOR
- Katouzian, Homa 1989: Oil and economic development in the Middle East, in: Sabagh, Georges (ed.), 1989: The modern economic and social history of the Middle East in its world context, New York, ISBN: 0 521 37351 4, pp. 44-65, BOR
- Ayubi, Nazih 1991: Political Islam, London, ISBN: 0-415-10385-1, Ch. 8 (islamic banks), BOR
Week of Mar 27
Anything new under the sun? Prospects for (what?) democracy and just society
Readings
- Compulsory
- Kamrava, Mehran 2005: The modern Middle East, Berkeley, Ch. 10, OB
- Sadowski, Yahya 1997: The New Orientalism and the democracy debatte, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 33-50, OB
- Zubaida, Sami 1997: Religion, the state, and democracy: contrasting conceptions of society in Egypt, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 51-63, OB
- Joseph, Suad 1997: Gender and civil society, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 64-70, OB
- Norton, Augustus R. 1999: Associational Life: Civil society in Authoritarian Political Systems, In: Tessler, Mark (ed.): Area studies and social science: strategies for understanding Middle East politics, Bloomington, ISBN: 0-253-21282-0, BOR
- Recommended
- Denoeux, Guilian 1993: Urban unrest in the Middle East. A comparative study of informal networks in Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon, New York, ISBN: 0-7914-1524-4, BOR
- Luciani, Giacomo 1994: "The Oil Rent, the Fiscal Crisis of the State and Democratization", in Ghassan Salamé, Democracy Without Democrats? The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World, 130-155, BOR
- Owen, Roger 1994: Socio-economic change and political mobilization, in: Salame, Ghasan (ed., 1994: Democracy without democrats?, London, ISBN: 1-85043-748-3,, pp.183-199, BOR
- Wickham, Carrie R. 1997: Islamic mobilization and political change: The islamic trend in Egypt’s professional associations, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 120-135, OB
- Margulies, Ronnie/Yildizoglu, Ergin 1997: The resurgence of Islam and the Welfare Party in Turkey, in: Beinin, Joel/Stork, Joe (ed.), 1997: Political Islam. Essays from Middle East Report, London, ISBN: 1 86064 098 2, pp. 144-153, OB
- Rex Brynen, Baghat Korany and Paul Noble, Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World, Boulder, ISBN 1-55587-579-3, BOR
- Garnham, David/Tessler, Mark (ed.), 1995: Democracy, war & peace in the Middle East, Bloomington, ISBN: 0-253-20939-0, BOR
Week of Apr 03
Take home essay
Important Dates
Apr 3: Classes end.
Apr 11: Last day to submit Winter term course work.