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THE POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST

AND NORTH AFRICA

Professor: Eberhard Kienle

Academic Year 2019/2020: Common core curriculum – Spring semester

COURSE DESCRIPTION

By way of analyzing the causes, dynamics, and impact of some major events and developments in the

recent past (obviously including topics debated in the media and by students) the course identifies

underlying structural factors that shape the politics and international relations of the geographical area

commonly referred to as the Middle East and North Africa. Without neglecting actors and agency, it thus

looks at current affairs in their broader social, economic and cultural context shaped by global history,

referring to the relevant bodies of academic literature. Issues such as ‘civil wars’, the dislocation of states,

the rise and fall of the ‘Islamic state’, Islamism , the Arab spring, recent reforms in Saudi Arabia,

manifestations of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and conflict and cooperation in the Gulf will be discussed in the

light of societal cleavages based on income, status, gender and cultural markers like language and religion,

modes of production and distribution, relations with international actors, and state formation, all shaped by

globalization, the Cold War, decolonization and earlier European domination.

LECTURES AND READINGS

Deliberately extensive, the reading list for each session includes a number of publications that partly overlap

thematically but nonetheless differ in their analysis and thus illustrate the pluralism that marks the social

sciences. It nonetheless remains highly selective and cannot include numerous titles that make useful

contributions to the debates. For reasons of space it focuses on authored books and edited volumes rather

than on articles in academic journals specializing in the Middle East as an area or political science and

related disciplines. Many of these journals may be found in the library or on-line. Students may also refer to

the more or less regular reports and publications by think tanks such as the Carnegie Middle East Center,

the Arab Reform Initiative or the International Crisis Group and current affairs coverage and analysis in

media such as prominent dailies, Orient xxi, Mada Masr, Jadaliyya, etc.

Except for the Introduction all sections are divided into priority and additional readings. Students are

expected to consult and compare a fair number of titles in order to further explore and discuss issues

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addressed in the relevant lectures rather than to read them from cover to cover; indexes and tables of

content will provide the necessary guidance. As a matter of course students are also expected to familiarize

themselves with the background readings listed among the prerequisites.

The thematic sections also include writings that allow to discuss events and developments in the Middle East

from a comparative and theoretical perspective. This concerns in particular (but not exclusively) the sessions

in Part Two which on the basis of broader issues raised earlier in the course provide a synthetic view of the

dynamics that manifest themselves in the issues discussed in Part One.

Introduction

SESSION 1: Delineating and Analyzing the Middle East

Ahram, A.I., et al. (eds), Comparative Area Studies : Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Approaches, Oxford, OUP, 2018

Anderson, L., ‘Democracy in the Arab World: A Critique of the Political Culture Approach’, in: Brynen, R et al. (eds), Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World, Boulder, Co., Lynne Rienner, v.1., 1995, 77-91

Al-Azm, S.J., ‘Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse’, in : Khamseen, No 8, 5-27, 1987

Badie, B., Les deux Etats, Paris, Fayard, 1986

Bozarslan, H., Sociologie politique du Moyen-Orient, Paris, La Découverte, 2011

Brumberg, D./ Diamond, L. / Plattner, M.F. (eds), 2003, Islam and Democracy in the Middle East, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP

Kienle, E., Les ‘aires culturelles’ : travers et potentiels, in : Revue internationale de politique comparée, 21 :2, 49-61, 2014

Lockman, Z., Contending Visions of the Middle East, Cambridge, CUP, 2004

Said, E., Orientalism, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978, translated into French Schwedler, J. / Gerner, D.J., Understanding the Contemporary Middle East, Boulder, Co., Lynne Rienner, 2008

Tessler, M., Area Studies and Social Science: Understanding Middle East Politics, Bloomington, U.of Indiana Press, 1991

Zubaida, S., Beyond Islam: A New Understanding of the Middle East, London, I.B.Tauris, 2011

PART ONE: CURRENT ISSUES IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS

SESSIONS TWO: ‘Civil Wars’ and ‘Failed States’

Priority readings

Acemoglu, D. / Robinson, J.A., Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, New York, N.Y., Crown, 2012

Baumann, H., Citizen Hariri: Lebanon’s Neo-Liberal Reconstruction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017

Call, C.T., Beyond the 'Failed State': Toward Conceptual alternatives, in: European Journal of International Relations, 17:2, 2010, 303-26

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Bozarslan, H., Révolution et état de violence : Moyen Orient 2011- 2015, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2015

Dodge, T., Iraq : From War to New Authoritariansim, London, IISS, 2013

Kaldor, M., New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era, 2nd ed, Cambridge/ UK, Polity Press, 2006

Najem, T., Lebanon: The Politics of a Penetrated Society, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010

Picard, E., Lebanon: A Shattered Country, revised ed., New York, N.Y., Holmes and Meier, 2002

Risse, T. (ed), Governance without States: Policies and Politics in Areas of Limited Statehood, New York, N.Y., Columbia University Press, 2011

Roeder, P.G. / Rothchild, D.S. (eds), Sustainable Peace, Power and Democracy after Civil Wars, Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press, 2005

Salibi, K., Lebanon: A House of Many Mansions, Berkely, Ca., University of California Press, 1990

Traboulsi, F., A History of Modern Lebanon, London, Pluto Press, 2007

Tripp, C., A History of Iraq, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007

Woodward, S., The Ideology of Failed States: Why Interventions Fail, Cambridge/ UK, Cambridge University Press, 2017

Additional:

Bonnefoy, L., Yemen and the World: Beyond Insecurity, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, translated from French

Bonnefoy, Laurent / Mermier, Franck / Poirier, Marine (eds), Yemen: le tournant révolutionnaire, Paris, Karthala, 2012

Brandt, M., Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017

Clunan, A.L. / Trinkunas, H.A. (eds), Ungoverned Spaces: Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened Sovereignty, Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press, 2010

Fragile States Index (Failed States Index), Annual, Washington, D.C., Fund for Peace, www.global.fundforpeace.org/fsi, annual

Fukuyama, F., State-Building, Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press, 2004

Kalyvas, S.N., The Logic of Violence in Civil War, Cambridge/ UK, Cambridge University Press, 2006

Knudsen, A. / Kerr, M. (eds), Lebanon After the Cedar Revolution, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014

Lacher, W., Was Libya’s Collapse Predictable?, in: Survival, 59:2, 2017, 139-52

Lackner, H., Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism, and the Disintegration of the State, London, Saqi, 2018

Leenders, R., Spoils of Truce: Corruption and State-Building in Postwar Lebanon, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2011

El-Khazen, F., The Breakdown of the Lebanese State, 1967-1976, London, I.B.Tauris, 2000

Vandewalle, D., A History of Modern Libya, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012

SESSION THREE: Syria, ‘ the ‘Islamic State’ and Kurdish Politics

Priority readings

Abboud, S., Syria, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2016

Allsopp, H. / van Wilgenburg, W., The Kurds of Northern Syria, London, I;B;Tauris, 2019

Atran, S., L’Etat islamique est une revolution, Paris, Les liens qui libèrent, 2016

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Ahram, A.I., Break all the Borders : Separatism and the Reshaping of the Middle East, Oxford, OUP, 2019

Baczko, A. / Dorronsoro, G. / Quesnay, A.,, Civil War in Syria: Mobilization and Competing Social orders, Cambridge, CUP, 2018

Cagaptay, S., Erdogan’s Empire : Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East, London, I.B.Tauris, 2011

Cockburn, P., The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle east, London, Verso, 2016

Jabar, F. / Mansour, R. (eds), The Kurds in a Changing Middle East, London, I;B;Tauris, 2019

Kepel, G., Terror in France, The Rise of Jihad in the West, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2007

Lister, C.R., The Islamic State: A Brief Introduction, Washington, D.C., Brookings, 2015

Luizard, P-J., Le piège de Daech, Paris, La Découverte, 2015

Philips, C., The Battle for Syria : International Rivalry in the New Middle East, New Haven, Ct., Yale University Press, 2016

Roy, O., Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of the Islamic State, Oxford, Oxford university Press, 2017 (also available in French)

Sallon, H., L’Etat islamique de Mossoul, Paris, La Découverte, 2018

Additional

Ismail, S., ‘The Syrian Uprising: Imagining and Performing the Nation’,in: Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2011, 538-549.

Saouli, A. : Hinnebusch, R. (eds), The War for Syria : Regional and Internatonal Dimensions of the Syrian Uprising, Abingdon, Rouledge, 2019,

Benraad, M., L’Irak, la revanche de l’histoire : de l’occupation étrangère a l’Etat islamique, Paris, Vendemiaire, 2015

Benslama, F., Un furieux désir de sacrifice: le surmusulman, Paris, Seuil, 2016

SESSION FOUR: Beyond the ‘Islamic State’: Islam in Politics

Priority readings:

Ajami, F., The Arab Predicament, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982

Bayat, A. Making Islam Democratic, Stanford, Ca. Stanford University Press, 2007

Burgat, F., Comprendre l’Islam politique, Paris, La Découverte, 2016

Filiu, J.P., La véritable histoire d’Al-Qaida, Paris, Pluriel, 2011

Hroub, K., Political Islam, London, Saqi, 2010

Ismail, S., Rethinking Islamist Politics, London, I.B.Tauris, 2006

Kepel, G., Jihad, Paris, Gallimard, 2003

Rougier, B., Qu’est-ce que le salafisme?, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2008

Roy, O., Globalized Islam, New York, N.Y., Columbia University Press, 2004

Seurat, M., ‘Le quartier de Bab Tebbané à Tripoli. Étude d’une ‘asabiyya urbaine’, in : Seurat, M., L’État de barbarie, Paris, Seuil, 1989, 110-160

Wiktorowicz, Q., Islamic Activism, Bloomington, Id., University of Indiana Press, 2003

Zubaida, S., Islam, the People and the State, London, I.B.Tauris, 1993 Additional:

Ayubi, N. Political Islam, London, Routledge, 1991

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Diamond, L. / Plattner, M. / Brumberg, D. (eds) Islam and Democracy in the Middle East, Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press, 2003

Eickelman, D. / Piscatori, J., Muslim Politics, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1996

Enayat, H., Modern Islamic Political Thought, Austin, Tx, University of Texas Press, 1982,

Haenni, P., L’Islam de marché, Paris, Seuil, 2005

Kepel, G., Le Prophète et Pharaon : les mouvements islamistes dans l’Égypte contemporaine, Paris, Gallimard, 2012 (new edition).

Marty, M.E. / Appleby, R.S., Fundamentalism Observed, Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press, 1994 (Vol 1 of the Fundamentalism Project; see also the remaining two volumes)

Pierret, T., Baas et Islam en Syrie, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2011

Rougier, B., The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2015

Shehata, D., Islamists and Secularists in Egypt: Opposition, Conflict and Cooperation, London, Routledge, 2010

SESSION FIVE: The ‘Arab Spring’: Contestations and Contexts

Priority readings:

Anderson, L., ‘Demystifying the Arab Spring: Parsing the Differences Between Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya’, in: Foreign Affairs, 90:3, 2011

Achcar, G., The People Want: A radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, Berkeley, Ca., The University of California Press, 2013; également disponible en français

Beinin, J. / Vairel, F. (eds.), Social Movements, Mobilization and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa, 2nd ed., Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press, 2011

Dahi, O. S., ‘Understanding the Political Economy of the Arab Revolts’, in: Middle East , 259, 2011

Filileule, O. / Bennani-Chraïbi, M., ‘Pour une sociologie des situations révolutionnaires : retour sur les révoltes arabes’, in : Revue française de science politique, 62 : 5/6, 2012

Gelvin, J., The Arab Spring: What Everybody Needs to Know, Oxford/ New York, N.Y., Oxford University Press, 2012

Kienle, E. ‘Les « révolutions » arabes’, in : Critique Internationale, no.54, 2012, 103-17

Lynch, M. (ed.), The Arab Uprisings Explained : New Contentious Politics in the Middle East, Studies in Middle East Politics, New York, N.Y., Columbia University Press, 2014

Pace, M. / Cavatorta, F., ‘The Arab Uprisings in Theoretical Perspective – An Introduction’, in: Mediterranean Politics, 17:2, 2012, 125-38.

Sadiki, L.(ed), The Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring, Abingdon, Routledge, 2014

Tripp, C., The Power and the People, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013

Valbjorn, M. /Volpi, F., ‘Revisiting Theories of Arab Politics in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings’, in: Mediterranean Politics, 19: 1, 2014, 134-36.

Additional:

Beinin, J., ‘The Rise of Egypt’s Workers’, The Carnegie Papers, June 2012. Available at: http://carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=48689

Camau, M., Vairel, F., ‘Présentation : « Révolutions » et recompositions politiques’, in : Camau, M. / Vairel, F. (eds), Soulèvements et recompositions politiques dans le monde arabe, Montréal, Presses Universitaires de Montréal, 2014, p. 7-42

Cefaï, D., Pourquoi se mobilise-t-on? Les théories de l’action collective, Paris, La Découverte, 2007

Dalla Porta, D., Social Movements: An Introduction, Cambridge/ Oxford, Wiley / Blackwell, 2006

Fillieule, O. et al. (eds), Penser les mouvements sociaux, Paris, La Découverte, 2010

Goldstone, J.A., Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative and Historical Studies, Boston, Mass., Cengage, 2002

Geisser, V. / Ayari, M. B., Les Révolutions arabes en 10 questions, Paris, Atelier, 2011

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El-Ghobashy, M., ‘The Praxis of the Egyptian Revolution’, in: Middle East Report, 258, 2011

Huntington, S., Political Order in Changing Societies, New H., Ct, Yale University Press, 1968

Lynch, M. et al., Revolutions in the Arab World: Tunisia, Egypt and the Unmaking of an Era, New York, N.Y., Foreign Policy Book, 2011

McAdam, D./ Tarrow, S. / Tilly, C., ‘Comparative Perspectives on Contentious Politics’, in: Lichbach, M./ Zuckermann, A. (eds), Comparative Politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007

Skocpol, T., Social Revolutions in the Modern World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994

SESSION SIX: The Survival of Authoritarianism and the Tunisian Exception

Priority readings:

Alexander, C., Tunisia: from Stability to Revolution in the Maghreb, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016

Bellin, E., ‘Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: 
Lessons from the Arab Spring’, in: Comparative Politics, 44: 2, 2012, 127-49.

Cavatorta, F., 2015, ‘No Democratic Change... and Yet No Authoritarian Continuity: The Inter-

paradigm Debate and North Africa After the Uprisings’, in: British Journal of 
Middle Eastern Studies, 42:1, 2015, 135-145.

Haddad, B., Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience, Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press, 2012

Heydemann, S. / Leenders, R. (eds), Middle East Authoritarianisms: Governance, Contestation and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran, Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press, 2013

Heydemann, S., Upgrading Authoritarianism in the Arab World, Washington, D.C., Brookings, Saban Center, Policy Paper No 13, 2007

Jebnoun, N. et al. (eds), Modern Middle Eastern Authoritarianisms, Abingdon, Routledge, 2015

Sassoon, J., Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016

Sika, N. / Kienle, E. (eds), The Arab Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power, London, I.B.Tauris, 2015

Springborg, R., Egypt, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2017 Additional:

Carothers, T. / Ottoway, M. (eds), Uncharted Journey : Promoting Democracy in the Middle East, Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution, 2005

Diamond, L., ‘The Democratic Rollback: The Resurgence of the Predatory State’, in: Foreign Affairs 87:2, 2008, 36-48

Huntington, S., The Third Wave, Norman, Ok., University of Oklahoma Press, 1991

Kienle, E., A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt, London, I.B.Tauris, 2001

Hibou, B., La force de l’obéissance: économie politique de la répression en Tunisie, Paris, La Découverte, 2006

King, S. J., The New Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa, Bloomington, In., University of Indiana Press, 2009

Schlumberger, O. (ed), Debating Arab Authoritarianism, Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press, 2007

Levitsky, S. / Way, L, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010

Rueschemeyer, D. et al., Capitalist Development and Democracy, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1992

Svolik, M., ‘Authoritarian Reversal and Democratic Consolidation’, in: American Political Science Review, 102, 2008, 153-168

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SESSION SEVEN: Reform in Saudi Arabia? Dynamics and Constraints

Priority readings:

Aarts, P. /Roelants, C., Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril, London, Hurst, 2015

Al-Rasheed, M. (ed), Salman’s Legacy: The Dilemma of a New Era in Saudi Arabia, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018

Haykal, B. / Heghammer, T. / Lacroix, S. (eds), Saudi Arabia in Transition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014

Hertog, Steffen, ‘Challenges to the Saudi Distributional State in the Age of Austerity’, unpublished paper presented at the conference ‘Saudi Arabia: Domestic, Regional and International Challenges, National University of Singapore, Middle East Institute, 12-13 December 2016, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68625

Kechichian, J., Legal and Political Reform in Saudi Arabia, Abingdon, Routledge, 2013

Luciani, G. / Hertog, S. / Valeri, M. (eds), Business Politics in the Middle East, London, Hurst, 2013

Lacroix, S., Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Revival in Saudi Arabia, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2011

Matthiesen, T., Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring that wasn’t, Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press, 2013

Additional:

Al-Rasheed, M., A History of Saudi Arabia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010

Government of Saudi Arabia, Vision 2030, Vision2030.gov.sa/en

Hanieh, A., Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Hertog, S., Princes, Brokers and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2010

Menoret, P., Royaume d’asphalte, Paris, La Découverte, 2016

Niblock, T., Saudi Arabia: Power, Legitimacy and Survival, Abingdon, Routledge, 2006

Vassiliev, A., The History of Saudi Arabia, London, Saqi, 2013

Yamani, M., Changed Identities: The Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia, London, RIIA, 2000

SESSION EIGHT: Israel and Palestine: Conflict(s) and Stakes

Priority readings:

Cobban, H., The Palestinian Liberation Organization : People, Power and Politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985

Dieckhoff, A., Le conflit israélo-palestinien: 20 questions pour faire votre opinion, Paris, Armand Colin, 2017

Gelvin, J. L., The Palestine Conflict : One Hundred Years of War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014

Gresh, A., Israël, Palestine: Vérités sur un conflit, Paris, Fayard, 2017

Khalidi, R., The Iron Cage : The Struggle for Palestinian Statehood, Boston, Mass., Beacon Press, 2007

Kimmerling, B., The Invention and Decline of Israelinesss: State, Society, and the Military, Berkeley, Ca., University of California Press, 2005

Quandt, W.B., Peace Process, Berkeley, Ca., University of California Press, 2005

Rabinovitch, I., Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs 1948-2003, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2004

Seurat, L., Le Hamas et le monde, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2015

Sayigh, Y., Armed Struggle and the Search for a State: The Palestinian National Movement 1949-93, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997

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Shlaim, A., The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Norton, New York, N.Y., 2001 Additional:

Black, I., Enemies and Neighbours : Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017, New York, N.Y., Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017

Cohen, S., Israel’s Asymmetric Wars, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Evron, B., Jewish State or Israeli Nation?, Bloomington, In., University of Indiana Press, 1995

Laqueur, W./ Rubin, B. (eds), The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict, London, Penguin, 2008

Kraemer, G., A History of Palestine from the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2008

Latte-Abdallah, S. / Parizot, C., Israelis and Palestinians in the Shadows of the Wall, Abingdon, Routledge, 2018

Laurens, H., La question de Palestine, 5 vols, Paris, Fayard, 1999-2015

Louer, L., Les citoyens arabes d’Israël, Paris, Jacob Duvernet, 2003

Lukacs, Y. (ed), The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Documentary Record 1967-1990, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992

Pappe, I., Ten Myths about Israel, London, Verso, 2016

Rouhana, N.N. (ed), Israel and its Palestinian Citizens : Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017

Sanbar, E., La Palestine expliquée a tout le monde, Paris, Seuil, 2013

Segev, T., 1949 : The First Israelis, New York, N.Y., Henry Holt, 1998

Shindler, C., A History of Modern Israel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008

SESSION NINE: Iran, Gulf Security and the ‘Nuclear Deal’

Priority readings:

Dilip, Hiro, Cold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Struggle for Supremacy, Oxford, OUP, 2018

Ehteshami, A. / Hinnebusch, R. A., The Foreign Policies of Middle Eastern States, Boulder, Co., Lynne Rienner, 2014

Gause III, G., The International Relations of the Persian Gulf, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009

Herodote (Journal), no. 169 (thematic issue), Regards geopolitiques sur l’Iran, 2018

Hinnebusch, R., The International Politics of the Middle East, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2nd ed, 2015

Jumeau, T., Squandered Opportunity: Neoclassical Realism and Iranian Foreign Policy, Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press, 2015

Jumeau, T. / Razavi, S., Iranian Foreign Policy since 2001, Abingdon, UK, Routledge, 2013

Lindemann, T., International Politics of recognition, Abingdon, UK, Routledge, 2014

Mabon, S., Saudi Arabia and Iran: Power and Rivalry in the Middle East, London, I.B.Tauris, 2015

Murray, D., US Foreign Policy and Iran: American-Iranian Relations since the Islamic Revolution, Abingdon, Routledge, 2009

Ulrichsen, K. C., The Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian Gulf, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018

Al-Saud, F. bin Salman, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf: Power Politics in Transition, London, I.B.Tauris, 2004

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Waarnar, M., Iranian Foreign Policy during Ahmadinejad: Ideology and Actions, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Additional:

Alizadeh, P. / Hakimian, H., Iran in the Global Economy: The Politics of Populism and Reform, Abingdon, Routledge, 2012

Emery, C., US Foreign Policy and the Iranian Revolution: The Cold War Dynamics of Engagement and Strategic Alliance, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Fuertig, H. , Regional Powers in the Middle East: New Constellations after the Arab Revolts, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Herodote (Journal), no. 169 (thematic issue), Regards geopolitiques sur l’Iran, 2018

Jumeau, T. / Razavi, S., Iranian Foreign Policy since 2001, Abingdon, UK, Routledge, 2013

Lamote, Let al., Iran’s Strategic Intentions and Capabilities, Washington, D.C., National Defense University, 2012

Louer, L., Shiism and Politics in the Middle East, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012

Premonville, A.-L. de / Flichy de la Neuville, T. de, Geopolitique de l’Iran, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2017

Wehrey, F. et al., Saudi-Iranian Relations since the Fall of Saddam: Rivalry, Cooperation and Implications for US Policy, Santa Monica, Ca., Rand, 2009

Wehrey, F. (ed), Beyond Sunni and Shia: The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017

SESSION TEN: Refugees and International Migration

Priority readings:

Agarin, T. / Nancheva, N. (eds), A European Crisis: Perspectives on Refugees, Solidarity and Europe, Stuttgart, Ibidem, 2018

Bertelsmann-Stiftung (ed), Escaping the Escape: Toward Solutions for the Humanitarian Migration Crisis, Bertelsmann, Guetersloh, 2017

Boulby, M. / Christie, K. (eds), Migration, Refugees, and Human Security in the Mediterranean, Springer, Cham, 2018

Chatty, D., Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refugee State, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018

Chowdhury, M. / Rajan, S.I. (eds), South Asian Migration in the Gulf, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Dorai, M.K. / Audebert, C. (eds), Migration in a Globalized World, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2010

Dudley, D. / Sasikumar, K. (eds), European Refugee Crisis, vol 45 of: Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review, Abingdon, Routledge, 2018

Fargues, P. et al. (eds), Migration from North Africa and the Middle East, London, I.B. Tauris, 2015

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. / Loescher, G. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016

Winckler, O., Arab Political Demography, Brighton, Sussex University Press, Third edition, 2017 Additional:

Brynen, R. / El-Rifai, R. (eds), The Palestinian Refugee Problem: The Search for a Solution, London, Pluto Press, 2013

Hacohen, D., Immigrants in Turmoil: Mass Immigration to Israel and its Repercussions in the 1950s and Afterwards, Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 2003

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Freedman, J. / Kivilcim, Z., A Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis, Abingdon, Routldege, 2017

Gabiam, N., The Politics of Suffering: Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camps, Bloomington, In., Indiana University Press, 2016

Hugo, G. et al. (eds), Demography of Refugee and Forced Migration, Springer, Cham, 2018

Knudson, A. / Hanafi, S. (eds), Palestinian Refugees: identity, Space and Place in the Levant, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010

Morris, B., The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Ofer, D., Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939-44, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990

Wihtol de Wenden, C. / Benoit-Guyot, M. (eds), Atlas des migrations: un equilibre mondial a inventer, Paris, Autrement, 2018

PART TWO: UNDERLYING TRENDS AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES

SESSION ELEVEN: State Formation in its Historical and International Context

Priority readings:

Gelvin, J., The Modern Middle East: A History, Oxford / New York, N.Y., Oxford University Press, 2011

Halliday, F., The Middle East in International Relations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005

Hinnebusch, R., The International Politics of the Middle East, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2nd ed, 2015

Hourani, A., A History of the Arab Peoples, new edition, Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press, 2010

Korany, B., ‘Alien and Besieged, Yet Here to Stay: The Contradictions of the Arab Territorial State’, in: Salame, Gh. (ed), The Foundations of the Arab State, New York, N.Y./ London, Croom Helm, 198

Migdal, J., Strong Societies and Weak States, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1998

Owen, R., State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, 3rd ed., Abingdon, Routledge, 2004

Salamé, G. (ed), The Foundations of the Arab State, London, Croom Helm, 1987, 4 vols.; selected contributions reprinted in: Luciani, G., (ed), The Arab State, London, Routledge, 1990

Saouli, A., The Arab State: Dilemmas of Late Formation, Abingdon, Routledge, 2012 Additional:

Anderson, B., Imagined Communities, London, Verso, 2006

Bayart, J-F. (ed), La greffe de l’Etat, Paris, Karthala, 1996

Hobsbawm, E.J., Nations and Nationalism since 1780, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999

Kohli, A., State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Laurens, H., L’Orient arabe : arabisme et islamisme de 1798 à 1945, Paris, Armand Colin, 2000

Luciani, G. / Salamé, G. (eds), Démocraties sans démocrates, Paris, Fayard, 2006, also available in English

COURSE OUTLINE

Moore, B., The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, Boston, Mass. Beacon Press, 1966

Rogan, E., The Arabs: A History, New York, N.Y., Basic Books, 2017

Waldner, D., State Building and Late Development, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2007

Yom, S., From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East, New York, N.Y., Columbia University Press, 2015

SESSION TWLEVE: Societies and Political Economies

Priority readings: Political Economy

Bellin, E., Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development, 2nd ed, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2011

Diwan, I. / Cammett, M. / Richards, A. / Waterbury, J., A Political Economy of the Middle East, Boulder, Co., Westview, 2015

Diwan, I. / Galal, A. (eds), The Middle East Economies in Times of Transition, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Haddad, B., Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience, Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press, 2012

Hinnebusch, R. A., Syria: Revolution from Above, Abingdon, Routledge, 2001

Leca, J., ‘L’economie contre la culture dans l’explication des dynamiques politique’, in : Bulletin du CEDEJ, no 23, 1er semestre, 1988.

Kienle, E., A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt, London, I.B.Tauris, 2001

Moghadam, V. M., Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East, 3rd ed, Boulder, Co., Lynne Rienner, 2013

Owen, R., State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, 3rd ed., Abingdon, Routledge, 2004

Beblawi, H. / Luciani, G. (eds), The Rentier State, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016 (new edition)

Youssef, T., Growth and Policy Reform in the Middle East Since 1950, in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18:3, 2004, 91-116

Additional: Political Economy

Caporaso, J.A. / Levine, D.P., Theories of Political Economy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992

Evans, P., ‘Predatory, Developmental, and Other Apparatuses: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the Third World State’, in: Sociological Forum, 4:4, 1989, 561-87

Frieden, J.A., Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the 20th Century, W.W. Norton, 2007

Généreux, J., Economie politique, Paris, Hachette, 2008, 3 vols.

Gilpin, J.M. et al, Global Political Economy, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2001

Hakimian, H. / Moshaver, Z. (eds), The State and Global Change: The Political Economy of Transition in the Middle East and North Africa, Richmond, Curzon, 2001

Henry, C.M. / Springborg, R., Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001

Herb, Michael, 2005, No Representation without Taxation? Rents, Development and Democracy, in: Comparative Politics, 37:3, 297-316

Issawi, C., An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa, Abingdon, Routledge, 2006

Owen, R. / Pamuk, S., A History of Middle Eastern Economies in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1999

Owen, R., The Middle East in the World Economy, London, I.B. Tauris, 1993 (revised ed.)

Oatley, T.H., Debates in International Political Economy, London, Longman, 2011

Ross, Michael L., 2001, Does Oil Hinder Democracy?, in: World Politics, 53:3, 325-361

COURSE OUTLINE

Stilwell, F., Political Economy: The Contest of Economic Ideas, Oxford / New York, N.Y., Oxford University Press, 2006

Weingast, B. / Wittman, D.A.(eds), The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford /New York; N.Y., Oxford University Press, 2008

Priority Readings: Society

Barth, F., Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference (Introduction), Bergen/ Oslo, Universitetsforlaget, 1969

Batatu, H., Syria’s Peasantry, the Descendants of its Lesser Rural Notables and Their Politics, Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1999

Beinin, J., Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001

Bozarslan, H., Sociologie politique du Moyen-Orient, Paris, La Découverte, 2011

Elwert, G., Boundaries, Cohesion, and Switching: On We-Groups in Ethnic, National and religious Forms, in: Bulletin de l’APAD, No 10, 1995, http://apad.revues.org/1111,

Coon, C.S., Caravan: The Story of the Middle East, New York, N.Y., Krieger Co., 1976

Gellner, E. / Waterbury, J. (eds), Patrons and Clients in Mediterranean Societies, London, Duckworth, 1977

Gilsenan, M., Recognizing Islam: Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East, London, I.B.Tauris, 2000

Goldberg, E., The Social History of Labor in the Middle East, Boulder, Co., Westview, 1996

Migdal, J., Strong Societies and Weak States, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1998

Van Nieuewenhuijze, C.A.O., Commoners, Climbers and Notables, Leiden, Brill, 1997

Seurat, M., Les populations, l’Etat, et la société, in: Raymond, A. (ed), La Syrie d’aujourd’hui, Paris, Editions du CNRS, 1980 ; reprinted in : Seurat, M., Syrie : l’Etat de barbarie, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2012, 157-91

Zubaida, S., Islam, the People and the State, London, I.B.Tauris, 2009 Additional: Society

Al-Rasheed, M., A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013

Bayart, J.-F., The Illusion of Collective Identity, London, Hurst, 2009

Bayat, A., Life as Politics, Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press, 2009

Bennani-Chraïbi, M. / Fillieule, O. (eds), Résistances et protestations dans les sociétés musulmanes, Paris, Presses de Sciences-Po, 2003

Bianchi, R., Unruly Corporatism, Oxford /New York, N.Y., Oxford University Press, 1989

Bonne, E., Vie publique, patronage et clientèle: Rafiq Hariri à Saïda, Beirut, CERMOC-IREMAM, 1995

Dib, K., Warlords and Merchants. The Lebanese Business and Political Establishment, Reading, Ithaca Press, 2004.

Eisenstadt, S.N. / Lemarchand, R. (eds), Political Clientelism, Patronage and Development, Beverley Hill, Ca., Sage, 1981.

Johnson, M., Class and Client in Beirut, London, I.B. Tauris, 1988

Norton, A.R. (ed), Civil Society in the Middle East, Leiden, Brill, 1995/6, 2 vols.

Rydgren, J. / Sofi, D. / Hällsten, M., ‘Interethnic Friendship, Trust and Tolerance: Findings from Two North Iraqi Cities’, in: American Journal of Sociology, 118:6, 2013, 1650-94

Schemeil, Y. ‘Clientélisme et patrimonialisme dans le monde arabe’, in : International Political Science Review, Vol. 4, 1983, 455-494.

Singerman, D., Avenues of Participation, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1995