Presentation (3-6 minutes)

2 - Oral assessment and presentation - 30

Essay (2,000 words)

1 - Written assignment (including essay) - 70

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A sample of the topics covered in the module include:
<ul><li>The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Emergence of the Modern Middle East State System.</li><li>Arab Nationalism.</li><li>Political Islam</li><li>US Foreign Policy in the Middle East.</li><li>The Foreign Policy of Egypt.</li><li>The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia.</li><li>The Foreign Policy of Israel.</li><li>The Foreign Policy of Turkey.</li><li>The Foreign Policy of Iran.</li><li>The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.</li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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State, Power & Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East 

A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 

The Foreign Policies of Middle East States 

The Near East since the First World War: A History to 1995 

International Relations of the Middle East 

The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology 

The Arabs: A History 

American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967 

The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War 

Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam 

Diplomacy in the Middle East: The International Relations of Regional and Outside Powers (

IP3019 - International Politics of the Middle East

IP3019-PRD1-PER-ALV1

Acquisition of knowledge and understanding is promoted through a combination of lectures and interactive classes with a strong emphasis on students' presentations. You are encouraged to undertake extensive reading and independent study in order to understand the topics covered in lectures and classes and to broaden and deepen your knowledge of the subject. You also receive feedback on your coursework to encourage you to reflect on what you have produced.

*This module’s contact hours will be delivered using a number of different approaches. As an example, you may have a combination of in-person sessions (i.e. face to face on campus), and/or online synchronous sessions (participants are engaged at the same time online) and online asynchronous guided activities (you need to plan time to engage with these so you are prepared for the in person and synchronous sessions. These may include viewing recorded lectures and/or other online resources, reading materials, undertaking quizzes, completing exercises and chatting on forums.) In addition to these teaching delivery approaches, you will undertake your own independent study, which may involve wider reading, independent research, skills practice and preparation for assessment. Please see this module’s Moodle page and/or handbook for further information.

International Politics of the Middle East

Distinguish empirical, normative and explanatory statements from each other.

Skills

Critically engage with key debates about the concept of the modern Middle East.

Knowledge

Demonstrate knowledge of the specific processes impacting upon the foreign policy of states in the Middle East. 

Values and attitudes

Define abstract concepts and utilise them with rigour and consistency.

Apply your theoretical understanding of International Relations Theory to the analysis of the International Politics of the Middle East. 

Account for the determinants of the foreign policies of Middle Eastern states.

Critically analyse the connections between myth and reality in the international politics of the Middle East.

Read, discuss, and write in a clear and critical manner, to explain and analyse the International Politics of Middle Eastern and external actors.

Relate current events to the history and international politics of the Middle East.

Assess critically the competing perspectives on debates concerning foreign policy, conflict, ideology and history in the modern Middle East. 

Identify the root causes of key conflicts in the region.

Identify the key institutions associated with the foreign policy of Middle Eastern states. 

Relate historical processes to contemporary events. 