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科目名稱：中東衝突專題

Course Name: Topics on Conflicts of the Middle East
  • 學年學期：112-2 Spring Semester, 2024
  • 科目代碼：560937001 Course No.560937001

修別：選

Type of Credit: Elective

3.0

學分數

Credit(s)

15

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details
  • 開課單位：中東亞一、中東亞二 Course Department:Master Program in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies/M/1&2
  • 授課老師：張景安 Instructor: CHANG CHING-AN
  • 先修科目：無Prerequisite(N/A)
  • 上課時間：三D56 Session: wed13-16

課程簡介Course Description

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, numerous important conflicts, varying in scale, have erupted in the Middle East. Whenever mainstream media mentions the Middle East, it seems that it is usually related to instability. But the question is why there are so many wars and conflicts in this area? And what are the influences of these conflicts on the people in this area?

核心能力分析圖 Core Competence Analysis Chart

能力項目說明

    課程目標與學習成效Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes

    This course discusses the origins and developments of significant wars in the Middle East during the 20th and 21st centuries. The course consists of five parts: 1) theoretical debates of conflict theory, 2) the historical context of the conflicts, 3) the major wars and conflicts, 4) the issues of the conflicts, and 5) the development and impact of the conflict. The first three parts will be taught in the first semester, and the latter in the second semester. After the course, the student should have a general understanding of the formation, development, and impact of the conflicts in the Middle East.

    每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

    教學週次Course Week 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type

    週次

    Week

    課程主題

    Topic

    課程內容與指定閱讀

    Content and Reading Assignment

    教學活動與作業

    Teaching Activities and Homework

    學習投入時間

    Student workload expectation

    課堂講授

    In-class Hours

    課程前後

    Outside-of-class Hours

    1 (2/21)

    Introduction
    1. Sorli, Mirham E., Gleditsch, N. P., and Strand, H. (2005) ‘Why Is There So Much Conflict in the Middle East?’ Journal of Conflict Resolution, 49: 1.
    2. Mather, Y. (2014) ‘The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and Current,’ Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, 42: 3.
    1. preview
    2. lecture

     

    3

    6

     2 (2/28)

    228 Memorial Day

    No class!

    		      

    Theoretical debates of conflict theory

    3 (3/6)

    Conflict theory
    1. Bartos, O. J. and Wehr, P. (2002) Using Conflict Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Ch. 1-3).
    2. Long, W. J. and Brecke, P. (2003) War and Reconciliation: Reason and Emotion in Conflict Resolution, Massachusetts: The MIT Press (Ch. 1).
    3. Matyok, T., Senehi, J. and Byrne, S. eds. (2011) Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Education (Ch. 1).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

     4 (3/13)

    Clash of Civilization vs. Orientalism, and Colonialism
    1. Hauk, E. and Muller, H. (2015) ‘Cultural Leaders and the Clash of Civilizations,’ Journal of Conflict Resolution, 59: 3.
    2. Media Education Foundation (2005) Edward Said: The Myth of ‘the Clash of Civilizations.'
    3. Choueiri, Y. M. ed. (2005) A Companion to the History of the Middle East, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (Ch. 13).
    4. Hardy, Roger (2017) The poisoned well: empire and its legacy in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Epilogue).
    5. Stop Blaming Colonial Borders for the Middle.
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    Historical context of the conflicts

     5 (3/20)

    WW 1 & 2 and the Cold War
    1. Ulrichsen, K. C. (2014) The First World War in the Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Ch. 7).
    2. Jacobs, M. F. (2014) ‘World War 1: A War (and Peace?) for the Middle East,’ Diplomatic History, 38: 4.
    3. Cleveland, William L. and Bunton, Martin (2009) A History of the Modern Middle East, , Boulder: Westview (p. 191, 201-204, 211-213, 228-230, 233-234, 261-267).
    4. Khalidi, R. (2009) Sowing Crisis: The COld War and American Dominance in the Middle East, Boston: Beacon Press (Intro.).
    5. Barrett, R. C. (2007) The Greater Middle East and the Cold War: US Foreign Policy Under Eisenhower and Kennedy, London: I.B. TAURIS (Ch. 6).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    Major wars and conflicts

     6 (3/27)

    Four wars between the Arab countries and Israel: 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973
    1. Milton-Edwards and Hinchcliffe, P. (2001) Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945, New York: Routledge (Ch. 2).
    2. A Companion to the History of the Middle East (Ch. 14).
    3. Varble, D. (2003) The Suez Crisis 1956, Oxford: Osprey Publishing (p.7-14, p.21-72, p. 91-92).
    4. Oren, M. B. (2002) Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Making of the Modern Middle East, New York: Oxford University Press ( p.1-32, 305-327).
    5. Sindawi, K. and Kahana, E. (2015) The Yom Kippur War: The Successes of Israeli Intelligence, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 28: 4.
    6. Siniver, A. (2013) The Yom Kippur War: Politics, Legacy, Diplomacy, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Ch. 1).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

     7 (4/3)

    Intercollegiate Activities

        No class!

    		      

     8 (4/10)

    Midterm

    Midterm exam.

    		      

    9 (4/17)

    1979 Islamic revolution & Iran-Iraq war
    1. Abrahamian, E. (2008) A History of Modern Iran, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Ch. 6).
    2. Arjomand, S. A. (1988) The Turban for the Grown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Ch. 5 & 6).
    3. Donovan, J. (2011) The Iran-Iraq War: Antecedents and conflict escalation, London: Routledge (Ch. 1, 2, 6).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    10 (4/24)

    Iraq vs. Kuwait 1990 & US invasion of Iraq 2003
    1. Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945 (Ch. 8).
    2. Long, J. M. (2004) Saddam’s War of Words: Politics, Religions, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, Austin: University of Texas Press (Ch.2 & 3).
    3. Ritchie, N. and Rogers, P. (2007) The Political Road to War with Iraq: Bush, 9/11 and the drive to overthrow Saddam, London: Routledge (Ch. 6-9).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    Issues of the conflicts

    11 (5/1)

    Sectarian conflict
    1. Fanar Haddad, Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 (Ch. 2).
    2. Geneive Abdo, The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni Divide, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 (Intro.).
    3. Aaron Reese, Sectarian and Regional Conflict in the Middle East, Institute for the Study of War (2013).
    4. Milton-Edwards and Hinchcliffe, P. (2001) Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945, New York: Routledge (Ch. 5).
    5. Abdo, The New Sectarianism (Ch. 5).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    12 (5/8)

    Ethnic and resource conflict
    1. Leonard Binder, Ethnic Conflict and International Politics in the Middle, University Press of Florida (1999) (Intro.)
    2. David Romano and Gurses, M. ed., Conflict, Democratization, and the Kurds in the Middle East Turkey Iran Iraq and Syria, New York: Palgrave macmillan, 2014 (Ch. 1-4)
    3. Toby Craig Jones, America, Oil, and War in the Middle East, The Journal of American History, 99:1 (2012).
    4. Christine Drake, Water Resource Conflicts in the Middle East, Journal of Geography, 96:1 (1997).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    Development and impact of the conflict

    13 (5/15)

    Arab Spring
    1. Larbi Sadiki ed., Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring: Rethinking Democratization, London: Routledge, 2015 (Ch. 5-6).
    2. Sadiki ed., Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring (Ch. 9, 11, 12).
    1. Preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    14 (5/22)

    Democracy vs peace, and extremism
    1. Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism, American Anthropologist, 104:3 (2002).
    2. Edwards and Hinchcliffe, P. Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945 (Ch. 4).
    3. Amin Saikal and Schnabel, A., Democratization in the Middle East: Experiences, struggles, challenges, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2003 (Ch. 1-2).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    15 (5/29)

    Forced migration
    1. Akm Ahsan Ullah, Refugee politics in the Middle East and North Africa Human Rights, Safety, and Identity, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 (Ch. 2).
    1. preview
    2. lecture
    3. seminar

    3

    6

    16 (6/5)

    Group presentation

                  Presentations.

     

    3

    6

    17 (6/12)

    Essay

                  Essay preparation

    No class.

     

     

    18 (1/19)

    Essay

                  Essay submission.

    The students should hand in their essay this week.

    		    

     

    授課方式Teaching Approach

    60%

    講述 Lecture

    20%

    討論 Discussion

    20%

    小組活動 Group activity

    0%

    數位學習 E-learning

    0%

    其他： Others:

    評量工具與策略、評分標準成效Evaluation Criteria

    1. Midterm exam (20%)
    2. Participation in seminar (30%).
    3. A 2000 words essay related to the Middle East conflict (45%).
    4. Attendenance (5%)
    5. Plagiarism will be given zero marks for the course.
    6. If the exam is not taken on the day of the exam, the student will receive only 80% of the result achieved.

    指定/參考書目Textbook & References

    1. Abrahamian, E. (2008) A History of Modern Iran, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    2. Arjomand, S. A. (1988) The Turban for the Grown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    3. Barrett, R. C. (2007) The Greater Middle East and the Cold War: US Foreign Policy Under Eisenhower and Kennedy, London: I.B. TAURIS.
    4. Bartos, O. J. and Wehr, P. (2002) Using Conflict Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    5. Choueiri, Y. M. ed. (2005) A Companion to the History of the Middle East, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
    6. Cleveland, William L. and Bunton, Martin (2009) A History of the Modern Middle East, , Boulder: Westview.
    7. Colin, J. (2018) ‘A Crude History of the Great War,’ History Today.
    8. Donovan, J. (2011) The Iran-Iraq War: Antecedents and conflict escalation, London: Routledge.
    9. Hauk, E. and Muller, H. (2015) ‘Cultural Leaders and the Clash of Civilizations,’ Journal of Conflict Resolution, 59: 3.
    10. Hunwick, J., Seesemann, R. and Vikor, K. (2006) Islam and Colonialism: Intellectual Responses of Muslims of Northern Nigeria to British Colonial Rule, Leiden: Koninklijke Bill NV.
    11. Jacobs, M. F. (2014) ‘World War 1: A War (and Peace?) for the Middle East,’ Diplomatic History, 38: 4.
    12. Khalidi, R. (2009) Sowing Crisis: The COld War and American Dominance in the Middle East, Boston: Beacon Press.
    13. Long, J. M. (2004) Saddam’s War of Words: Politics, Religions, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, Austin: University of Texas Press.
    14. Long, W. J. and Brecke, P. (2003) War and Reconciliation: Reason and Emotion in Conflict Resolution, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
    15. Mather, Y. (2014) ‘The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and Current,’ Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, 42: 3.
    16. Matyok, T., Senehi, J. and Byrne, S. eds. (2011) Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Education.
    17. Media Education Foundation (2005) Edward Said: The Myth of ‘the Clash of Civilizations.’
    18. Milton-Edwards and Hinchcliffe, P. (2001) Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945, New York: Routledge.
    19. Oren, M. B. (2002) Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Making of the Modern Middle East, New York: Oxford University Press.
    20. Ritchie, N. and Rogers, P. (2007) The Political Road to War with Iraq: Bush, 9/11 and the drive to overthrow Saddam, London: Routledge.
    21. Sindawi, K. and Kahana, E. (2015) The Yom Kippur War: The Successes of Israeli Intelligence, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 28: 4.
    22. Siniver, A. (2013) The Yom Kippur War: Politics, Legacy, Diplomacy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    23. Sorli, Mirham E., Gleditsch, N. P., and Strand, H. (2005) ‘Why Is There So Much Conflict in the Middle East?’ Journal of Conflict Resolution, 49: 1.
    24. Ulrichsen, K. C. (2014) The First World War in the Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    25. Varble, D. (2003) The Suez Crisis 1956, Oxford: Osprey Publishing.

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    課程相關連結Course Related Links

    1.	Aljazeera, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2007/09/200852519252884626.html
2.	Crisis Group, https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa
3.	Global Issues, www.globalissues.org/article/119/the-middle-east-conflict-a-brief-background
4.	Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/middle-east-conflict

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