Transformation in the Middle East

The Middle East has undergone major changes in recent months. Since January this region has overwhelmed the two long-term regimes of Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hussein Mubarak in Egypt. In almost every other country in the region, various levels of protest action and complete bleeding in Libya are occurring. Most international communities do not seem to be able to foresee this mess. How the United States and its allies respond to this situation may determine the future of the relationship between the West and the Arab world.

The period under consideration is one of major changes in politics, ethnicity, and ideology in the Middle East. Since the Ottoman Revolution in 1908, the unity policy of the Governing Council (young Turks) and the nationalist agenda of Turkey increased the tension between the social elite and the political elite in the Empire Arabian area. The entry of the Ottoman Empire into World War I is the time to organize the massacre of Armenia and the conflict between Greece and Turkey in the early 1920s was finally divided into Muslims between Greece and Turkey and Greek Orthodox Church Leading to a massive migration of the population. The defeat of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War also led to the division of the Arab - Middle East between the UK and France under the Coalition of the League of Nations. With the support of the Zionist movement, the Balfour Declaration in the UK has created a framework for restoring and promoting Jewish immigrants and Palestinian land purchases.

Economic, political and cultural connections between the Middle East and the modern world from the 18th century to the present. Particular attention is paid to the transformation of society, the formation of contemporary states, the relationship between Islam and democracy, and gender and society in the Middle East. Focus on issues of representation and power in China in the 20th century. We will link the real information on contemporary Chinese society and culture with recent social theory and representative political discussion. The topic is Chinese nationalism, physical politics, mass culture, and customs of daily life. Offer: Offered in combination with ANTH 444

Much of the effort to appease and change the Middle East is based on the use of violence. Regular social engineering approaches in the Middle East and North Africa, although they are usually one-dimensional and may fail, while trying to use economic instruments to deal with emotional and cultural complexities It involves overturning existing institutions. Most of the efforts to transform the Middle East lack the understanding and recognition of universal social norms on the one hand while on the other hand numerical figures with sufficient moral authority to lead and maintain the process of change It is missing.