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Year 4 Politics.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Jeremy Salt.
Prerequisite: Admission to fourth-year Political Science.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand origins of Egyptian and Turkish nationalism;
- understand contemporary economic and social problems in Turkey and Egypt;
- understand the development of Islamic movements in both countries;
- understand the relationship of both countries with the broader Islamic world, the Arab bloc and the West.
Content:
The subject will include discussions of the development of the national idea; the relationship between nationalism and Islam; government, leadership and party systems; the rise of Islamic movements; the place of both countries in the broader Middle Eastern and Islamic environment; Turkey's relations with the Turkic Republics of Central Asia; social and cultural trends; foreign relations (with the United States in particular and in Turkey's case with the European Community); ethno-religious and national questions (the Copts in Egypt and the Kurds in Turkey).
Assessment:
Written work totalling 6,000 words.
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